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The accomplishments of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry allow to reliably predict proteins’ structures based on their amino acid sequences, that is, the gene sequences that code for a protein. Protein folding has been a challenge for chemists for the last 50 years, and the problem has finally been solved, comments prof. Piotr Stefanowicz from the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław.

The flooding in south-western Poland is over, but its effects persist. It is not only destroyed roads, bridges or houses, but also fear, sadness, anger or helplessness that have remained in the psyche of many people. With the youngest children in mind, experts from the University of Wrocław and SWPS University have developed a therapeutic fable to help children get through this difficult time.
On 15 October 2024, the Wrocław Academic Centre is launching a call for applications in a new scholarship programme for students and doctoral students studying in Wrocław who are working towards the goals of sustainable development. The scholarship can be applied for in two categories: for students preparing a master’s thesis on issues related to […]

The University of Wrocław is cooperating with the Belarus Free University Foundation to implement the Belarus Free University (WUB) project in 2024-2025. The project is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and aims to develop a platform offering a European level of online postgraduate education for Belarusian youth, both those who live in the country and those in exile. The Institute of International and Security Studies at the University of Wrocław has a leading role in implementing the project.

Mental health promotion at the University of Wrocław is a task aimed at strengthening mental health, processes supporting the maintenance of good health and creating conditions conducive to health. It is also a process that enables people to increase control over their own health and to improve it, to actively improve their health and not only to defend themselves against illness or disorder.
The Breslau botanist and teacher Theodor Schube (1860-1934) was not an office researcher. For 40 years he covered more than 120,000 kilometres by bicycle and on foot. Very successfully. In 1904 he published the monumental ‘Flora von Schlesien preussischen und österreichischen Anteils’ in the distinguished Korn publishing house, and two years later the ‘Book of […]