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ENDOWED CHAIR IN POLISH STUDIES

 

The Brooklyn-based Polish Slavic Credit Union presented a check  to the University last February for the first endowed chair in Polish Studies. The credit union was the first donor to the project, giving a total of $500,000 after a five-year fundraising effort. Nicholas Dirks (fourth from right), vice president of arts and sciences,accepted the check for the last payment on behalf of the University. Bogdan Chmielewski, chief executive officer of the credit union, is at center.

 

 View photos of the press conference in Warsaw

  on the Polish Foreign Ministry website:

   on the Foundation for Polish Science website:

 

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                          Events

The International Workshop on Lysenkoism

Friday, December 4, 2009, CUNY Graduate Center

Saturday, December 5, Columbia University

More details may be found here.

The workshop program may be found here.

 

Wigilia- Christmas Eve Dinner

Saturday, December 5, 2009, 7 pm

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall

RSVP by email to mp2574@barnard.edu

More information may be found here.

 

Film showing

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 7:30pm

"Katyn,", directed by Andrzej Wajda (2007)

Introduced by Professor Istvan Deak

702 Hamilton Building, Columbia University