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Current climate change rapidly reduces the glacier area in the Northern Hemisphere, including marine-terminating glacier areas in the Arctic and subarctic regions. As a result of this process, vast areas of new coastlines that were previously inaccessible to scientists are now being exposed. An international group of scientists from Poland, the Czech Republic, the United States, and Canada has united in an initiative, supported by a grant from the National Science Centre, to address the knowledge gap concerning coastlines that have emerged due to glacial recession in the 21st century.

This method, developed by hydrogeologists from the University of Wrocław, makes it possible to provide city planners and developers with data on rainwater management options and assist them in making land-use decisions.

Multinational corporations are among the most frequently chosen workplaces by graduates of our university. A diverse business profile, a multicultural environment, interesting career paths are just some of the advantages that attract young people.

Australian Ambassador Benjamin Hayes was a guest of the UWr Rector, prof. Robert Olkiewicz on 14 March.

We have great news for all those who are planning to publish a scientific book. On Friday, 14 March 2015, Ordinance No. 65/2025 of the Rector of the University of Wrocław concerning the possibility of obtaining funding from the Rector’s Fund for publishing with WUWr came into force. The University of Wrocław Press has already prepared an iconography and compiled the most important information summarising the changes to the regulations on support for publications from the Rector’s Fund.

On Thursday, March 13, Ambassador of Mexico, Juan Sandoval Mendiolea, was the guest of the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz.

The University of Wrocław and the Council for Scientific Excellence invite you to the conference ‘Postępowania awansowe w świetle dotychczasowych doświadczeń. Praktyka organów I i II instancji’ (eng. Promotion proceedings in the light of experience to date. Practice of bodies of first and second instance), which will be held on 24 March at the Conference Centre of the Library of the University of Wrocław (room 3, ul. Fryderyka Joliot-Curie in Wrocław).

The staff of the UWr Institute of Romance Studies would like to invite you to the ROMANCE STUDIES WEEK.

Dr Anna Grochowska from the Department of Spatial Planning of the UWr Institute of Geography and Regional Development, together with a team of dr hab. Sylwia Dołzbłasz, prof. UWr (UWr Department of Land Management), dr Aneta Marek (UWr Department of Regional Geography and Tourism), and prof. Francesco Pagliacci (Università degli Studi di Padova), received a NAWA 2024 Intervention Grant in January for the project: ‘Flood risk awareness and management: the analysis of the effectiveness of measures and public perception’.

As part of the Visiting Professors Programme (IDUB), prof. Robert Zarnowski, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, will give an open lecture entitled “Determinanty patogenności w biologii biofilmów grzybów rodzaju Candida” (eng. Pathogenicity determinants in the biology of biofilms of fungi of the genus Candida).

As many as 13 titular professors have arrived at our University in January and February 2025. We extend a huge congratulations!

Another Szewski Czwartek is upon us. This time, the Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław invites you to Siedlęcin near Jelenia Góra, which hides unique 14th-century paintings depicting the story of Guinevere and Lancelot, the knight of King Arthur.