OPENING OF THE COPERNICUS CENTER

 

 

The Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, funded in large part by 2008 Templeton Prize Laureate, Professor Michael Heller, was formally opened on October 2, 2008, at a ceremony in the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Chairing the opening ceremonies were Professor Karol Musiol, rector of the Jagiellonian University, and Rev. Professor Jan Maciej Dyduch, rector of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. Joining the festivities were Professor Heller and Charles L. Harper, Jr., D.Phil., Senior Executive Vice President of the John Templeton Foundation, which awards the Prize. Subsequently, the agreement between the two universities establishing the Copernicus Center was officially signed.

 

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