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The presentation of the multinational corporation ExxonMobil given by its Business Support Center in Prague on November 21st, 2013, was the first of a series of regular visits of representatives coming from large corporations and companies to UNYP, organized by the Career Office this academic year.  The ExxonMobil is a company that has regularly offered working opportunities to our […]

Author: Dr. Humberto Aguilera Position: Instructor of Community Psychology at UNYP Thinking outside of the box is a popular metaphor that referring to creative thinking in order to analyse an issue or a problem. However, when we try to do some creative thinking we don’t know where to start. Einstein suggests starting with the problem […]

Marek Preiss, klinický psycholog a profesor na University of New York in Prague byl hostem ranního vysílání Studia 6 na ČT24. Mluvil o výzkumu, Poctivost a podvádění během vysokoškolského studia, na němž se podílel spolu s dalšími akademiky z Jihočeské univerzity, diskuzi vedl moderátor Jiří Václavek. „Měli jsme hypotézu, že čeští vysokoškolští studenti budou podvádět […]

What are reason and rationality? How significant are recent postmodernist and neuroscientific challenges to these longheld notions? Should we abandon a belief in reason and an adherence to rationality? Or can reason and rationality be reformulated and reframed? And what does politics have to do with how we think about reason and why we act […]

Empire State College/UNYP students, Michaela Matejckova and Petra Rieger, present at Empire State College’s 2013 Student Academic Conference, held in Queens, New York, October 18th and 19th.  This ESC-sponsored event  showcases the scholarly achievements of  students and exposes them to their peers in a academically stimulating cross cultural experience.    In the past, international students […]

During their recent study visit to Prague, Dr Salman Ahmad, positive psychology professor from the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, brought a group of 24 American students together with 12 UNYP students of the Psychology Club for an experiment in positive psychology.   Teams of students were given 300 Czech crowns and sent out to perform […]

On Friday, October 25, 2013, Fred Williams, owner of Williams Technical, provided the October installment of the UNYP/CVUT entrepreneurship lecture series.  Fred’s talk centered on the intentional or unintentional acts that cause great damage, usually at very low cost, and very low risk.  Sabotage has varied etymological theories, from the Dutch shoes being thrown into […]

University of New York in Prague recently hosted a visit from the Graduate Dean of  Empire State College to discuss the various program offerings available to UNYP students and consider possible collaborations between UNYP and ESC on a graduate level. Dr. Tai Arnold met with UNYP’s General Manager, Sotiris Foutsis, Rector, Andreas Antonopoulos, Department Chairs and […]

Empire State College and The University of New York in Prague hosted a visit in October from the Director of International Programs, Empire State College, Gavin Lowder.   Director Lowder spent time meeting with faculty, students, administration and touring the new university facility.  He commented on the mission of ESC making education accessible to those beyond […]

Jak již bylo oznámeno v průběhu léta UNYP získala nové vybavení. Nová budova se nachází v jedné z nejprestižnějších pražských ulic, Londýnské ulici. Nové vybavení bylo dodáno několik týdnů před začátkem nového akademického roku a je již v provozu. Studenti a profesoři byli ohromeni kvalitou nového zařízení a těší se na další plánované změny univerzity. […]