{"id":241264,"date":"2025-09-17T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/?p=241264"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:50:15","slug":"naukowcy-us-finalistami-nagrod-naukowych-polityki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/naukowcy-us-finalistami-nagrod-naukowych-polityki\/","title":{"rendered":"USil scientists reach final of POLITYKA Science Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 15 finalists of the 25th edition of the <em>POLITYKA<\/em> Science Awards include <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/instytut\/ip\/osoby\/690\/\"><strong>Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof.<\/strong><\/a><strong> from the Faculty of Social Sciences, and <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/instytut\/ih\/osoby\/piotr-olechowski\/\"><strong>Piotr Olechowski, PhD<\/strong><\/a><strong> from the Faculty of Humanities. The awards ceremony will take place during the official gala on 19 October.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof.<\/h3>\n<p>Psychologist, member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Silesia. Her scientific interests include: moral psychology (moral behaviour, views, and emotions) and its connections with human functioning in various areas, e.g. the connections between morality and personality, violence, crime, mental disorders, as well as the influence of social and cultural factors on morality, experimental psychology, the psychology of aesthetics (facial attractiveness and its connections with morality), and open science.<\/p>\n<p>She was a three-time holder of the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, a scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science and a \u2018Moral thinking and unethical behaviour\u2019 Bekker NAWA scholarship holder.<\/p>\n<h3>Piotr Olechowski, PhD<\/h3>\n<p>Historian whose research interests include the position of Poles in the USSR, the Sovietisation of the former eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic, the history of Polish diplomacy in the USSR and the Polish-Soviet border, as well as the activities of the Soviet secret services and judiciary. Recently, he has been devoting most of his attention to criminal investigations against the Polish population in the interwar period (in the area \u201cbeyond the Zbruch River\u201d), as well as in the former south-eastern voivodeships of the Second Polish Republic in the years 1939\u20131941 and from 1944.<\/p>\n<p>He twice received scholarships from the Government of the Republic of Poland\u2014the then Office for Academic Recognition and International Exchange of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the August Count Cieszkowski Kronos Foundation, and the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Scientific Council of <em>Kwartalnik Kresowy<\/em>. As an external expert, he has also collaborated scientifically with the Institute of National Thought Heritage, the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw, the Mazovian Voivodeship Office, the Main Medical Library, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation, the Pilecki Institute, the Borderlands Museum in Lubacz\u00f3w, the Institute of National Remembrance, the \u2018Freedom and Democracy\u2019 Foundation, the Cultural Centre in Przemy\u015bl, and the Przemy\u015bl Centre for Science and Culture \u2018Zamek\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>POLITYKA<\/em> Science Awards have been presented since 2001 as part of the <em>Polityka<\/em> Weekly Foundation\u2019s scholarship programme for young scientists. The initiative aims to promote the achievements of scientists whose careers are just gaining momentum. The awards are given to individuals who, during a given year, can boast of particularly significant achievements, such as defending a doctoral or habilitation thesis, taking up an important function in a scientific institution, or publishing a book or an important scientific article.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the award and the winners on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polityka.pl\/tygodnikpolityka\/nauka\/2314731,1,jeden-z-trzydziestu-nagrody-naukowe-przyznamy-wkrotce-po-raz-25-oto-nasi-finalisci.read\">the <em>POLITYKA<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-188387\" src=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografie\/MPC_Z6A8622_fot-Julia-Agnieszka-Szymala_zaakceptowane_.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, prof. U\u015a\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografie\/MPC_Z6A8622_fot-Julia-Agnieszka-Szymala_zaakceptowane_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografie\/MPC_Z6A8622_fot-Julia-Agnieszka-Szymala_zaakceptowane_-383x575.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. | Photo by Julia Agnieszka Szymala<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-241293\" src=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografie\/dr-Piotr-Olechowski-mat.-Instytutu-Historii-US.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Piotr Olechowski | Materia\u0142y Instytutu Historii U\u015a\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografie\/dr-Piotr-Olechowski-mat.-Instytutu-Historii-US.jpg 750w, https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografie\/dr-Piotr-Olechowski-mat.-Instytutu-Historii-US-575x383.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Piotr Olechowski, PhD | Materials of USil Institute of History<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/naukowcy-us-finalistami-nagrod-naukowych-polityki\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3279,"featured_media":202639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[81,56],"tags":[739,191],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241541,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264\/revisions\/241541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}