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Dr inż. Sławomir Potocki of the UWr Faculty of Chemistry has received a prestigious NCN Sonata Bis grant. Now he needs a research team to complete the project!

Recently, the BCUWr website published a preserved single page from the Latin Bible in St. Jerome’s translation, dating to the late 12th century. These are just a few passages from chapters 26-28 of the Book of Isaiah.

The first two weeks of registration in the Online Candidate Registration System have passed! We take a look at the statistics. Number of applications: 10264. number of candidates: 5805. Which fields of study at the University of Wrocław are the most popular among this season’s candidates? Check it out for yourselves!

All members of the team implementing the project ‘Humanitarian aid and the empowerment of Ukrainians coming to the V4 countries – good practices’ hosted a scientific conference and book premiere in Wrocław on the 12th of June 2024. The leader of the project is the Institute of Political Science of the University of Wrocław.

Social Analytics is a new field of study offered at our University starting in the 2024/2025 academic year. These will be full-time first-cycle studies. The classes will be held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of our university. It is a filed of study for those who want to combine knowledge of social reality with practical skills to study it and process large sets of empirical data for business decisions and strategies, among other things. Recruitment for this direction is already underway, and details can be found at www.rekrutacja.uni.wroc.pl.

The Polish Physical Society (Wrocław branch) has announced the winners of the second edition of the prize for young scientists for the best scientific paper in physics published in 2023. The main prize (ex-aequo) was won by Agnieszka Jeżdżewska, a first-year master’s student at the University of Wrocław.

How did Polish inventors contribute to Allied success during World War II? Was Polish poetry of interest to American workers of Polish descent and why did “impossible names” hinder the integration of Poles in the United States? – About this and many other interesting questions concerning the Polish American community, we talk with prof. dr. hab. Joanna Wojdon, author of Polish American History after 1939, published by Routledge.

We are delighted to announce that on June 13, 2024, at the Digital Justice Center, the Faculty of Law, Administration, and Economics of the University of Wrocław, the unveiling of our latest (surprising!) project – a mural – took place. This work of art was crafted by the renowned artist, Professor Paul Catanese from Columbia College Chicago.

There’s a lot going on at the University of Wrocław Press and we want to keep you informed! In our series #MondayswithWUWr, we keep you up to date with the most important events, book news and issues important to the Publishing House! We also encourage you to follow the wuwr.eu website and the Publishing House’s social media – Fb, LinkedIn and Instagram.

At the University of Wrocław, we are exceptionally appreciative not only of finalists and laureates of Olympiads and candidates who have passed their school-leaving exams, but above all of those who want to develop their interests and become ‘Young Researchers’.

Minister Radosław Sikorski appointed prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz as Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Polish-German social and border cooperation.

On 12 June, another meeting was held as part of a seminar aimed at physics teachers entitled Problemy dydaktyki fizyki (eng. Problems of the didactics of physics), organised by the Department of Physics Teaching at the UWr Institute of Experimental Physics and the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Physical Society.