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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.

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.

The Children’s University Foundation has awarded researchers. Among the award winners was dr Aleksandra Hecel-Czaplicka, who received the title “Lecturer of the Year 2023/2024 of the Children’s University”, for creating an extraordinary space for experimentation during the workshop ‘Dlaczego słodka cola jest kwaśna dla chemika?’ (eng. Why is sweet cola sour for a chemist?). For her professionalism and kindness at every stage of the collaboration.

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.