UL: Popularisation of science

A team of scientists from the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław, composed of: Karolina Pląskowska, dr Łukasz Makowski, dr Agnieszka Strzałka, prof. dr hab. Jolanta Zakrzewska-Czerwińska, received the Prof. Bassalik, awarded by the Committee on Molecular Biology of the Cell of the Polish Academy of Sciences, for the best work in the field of microbiology created in a Polish laboratory. The work of the awarded team has also been published in the prestigious journal mBio (American Society of Microbiology).

The IDUB office staff would like to invite you to an open Nature Masterclasses On-demand webinar to be held on the MS TEAMS platform on 19 February (Wednesday) at 14:00.

The staff of the UWr Faculty of Chemistry invite you to take part in the eighth edition of the conference organised at the Faculty of Chemistry of Wrocław University, which will take place on Wednesday, 12 February. The conference will take the form of a WEBINARIUM, with lectures starting at nine o’clock. This year’s conference is entitled: ‘Od teorii do eksperymentu: w poszukiwaniu Świętego Graala w nauce 2’.

The staff of the Institute of Geological Sciences invite you to a popular science lecture on natural toxins in the environment, which will be given by dr Adriana Trojanowska-Olichwer.

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław will be implementing the WEAVE UNISONO research grant in a trilateral cooperation between the German Research Foundation agency, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Polish National Science Centre agency.

Seven Wrocław research centres, including our University represented by Rector prof. Robert Olkiewicz, signed an agreement to consolidate activities in order to jointly build strong research and development facilities and strengthen the city’s position as a significant scientific centre. This is the first step towards a Wrocław centre of excellence.

Prof. Anna Pacześniak of the Institute of European Studies at the University of Wrocław has been nominated – as one of six people in the whole of the European Union – to the Committee of Independent Eminent Persons. This was announced on behalf of the Conference of Presidents by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

We talk about synesthesia and synesthetics, smells, senses, colors and letters with dr Przemysław Staniewski from the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław. Dr Staniewski has been conducting research on linguistic synesthesia for several years now. In the academic year 2023/2024, he was a scholarship holder of the Studienbörse Germanistik, which is the result of cooperation between the Hermann Niermann Foundation and the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg.

Conducting scientific research, especially involving the analysis of the laws of a country as distant as Chile, is quite a challenge. Of course, thanks to new technologies, it is possible to complete many research tasks practically without leaving home, but the real value of scientific research is still the opportunity to share your research results with other experts in order to initiate discussion on a given legal problem – emphasises our PhD student Laura Słocka.

27 January marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 to commemorate Jews murdered by the Germans during World War II.

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The staff of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy invite secondary school students to an academic physics workshop!