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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.

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’.

Individual studies in computer science and mathematics and Computer Science are two of our fields of study that were awarded Certificates of Excellence in Education by the Presidium of the Polish Accreditation Commission back in February.

Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan Nargiz Gurbanova met with the UWr Rector prof. Robert Olkiewicz and Vice-Rector for Student Affairs prof. Maciej Cesarz on 13 June.

In the academic year 2023/24, the Museum of the University of Wrocław hosted projects by students of cultural studies created as part of the Interwencje Muzealne course in the cultural art criticism specialisation taught by dr hab. Renata Tańczuk, prof. UWr.

We are announcing the beginning of a new and permanent university-wide project, Connecting.UWr – a project for research and development of the University of Wrocław.

27 of our researchers will receive a total of more than 40 and a half million PLN for the realization of their projects in the recently concluded OPUS 26 and SONATA 19 competitions of the National Science Centre (NCN). Among them are scholars from the Faculty of Letters, who will receive three grants.