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Do 31 sierpnia trwa nabór do III edycji Nagrody Dydaktycznej IDUB. O teorii i dydaktyce przekładu, kierunku studiów romanistycznych, a także powstającym kierunku przekładoznawczym na Wydziale Neofilologii rozmawiamy z dr Reginą Solovą, laureatką II edycji nagrody dydaktycznej IDUB i adiunktką w Zakładzie Translatologii Instytutu Filologii Romańskiej Wydziału Neofilologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.

The Department of Human Biology is carrying out another project under the direction of prof. Bogusław Pawłowski, focusing on the signalling significance of traits linked to male sex hormone levels. This time, however, the study group consists of men aged 50 and over. To collect the data required for the project funded by the National Science Centre (OPUS21) – “Kondycja biologiczna mężczyzn w średnim wieku jako wskaźnik zdolności organizmu do poniesienia fizjologicznych kosztów maskulinizacji” – a questionnaire has been prepared for people aged 18+, containing several questions concerning assessments of presented male faces.

In July 2025, the University of Tokyo completed the excavation of a vast underground cavern that will house Hyper-Kamiokande, a massive neutrino detector. The cavern is located 600 metres below ground near the city of Hida in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Our university is involved in this ambitious undertaking.

Students and researchers from the University of Wrocław, aboard the STS Generał Zaruski, have reached the halfway point of the GeoArctic Expedition on Spitsbergen. On 3 August, the team moored in Ny-Ålesund, the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement in the world, where they will remain for two days due to stormy winds. This stop provides a well-earned rest after a challenging yet highly successful week at sea—a week marked by the accomplishment of both scientific objectives and essential training in Arctic conditions for the ship’s crew.

At the end of July 2025, the prestigious publishing house Routledge released the monograph Women in Populist Rhetoric, edited by professor Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and dr Karolina Pałka-Suchojad. This publication makes a significant contribution to research on populism and political communication, focusing on how women are portrayed, instrumentalised, and represented in populist rhetoric across different regions of the world.

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We discuss teaching in the field of computer science with the winner of the IDUB teaching award, dr Paweł Gawrychowski, prof. UWr of the Institute of Computer Science.

The University of Wrocław has secured funding from the European Union for the implementation of the “Science4Business – Science for Business” project.

We are pleased to announce that the University of Wrocław has taken on the role of Academic Partner for HackYeah 2025 – the largest hackathon in Europe, which this year returns to TAURON Arena Kraków.

We are delighted to announce that professor Armen Sedrakian, affiliated with the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław, was awarded the prestigious title of professor of physical sciences in July 2025 by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

The recently announced book by dr Mateusz Długosz has just arrived at the bookshop of the Wrocław University Press.

On Friday, 25 July 2025, our team set off on a morning train from Wrocław to Warsaw, from where they will fly to Longyearbyen via Oslo. They will board the STS Generał Zaruski on the morning of 28 July. The destination: Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic.