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Jan Šamánek Ph.D., JUDr. Business Administration Department  What is law? As a practicing attorney who teaches two legal disciplines at University of New York in Prague, I should know. And just as an art critic should be able to define beauty and a romantic author should be able to define love, I should be able to define […]

Bethany Butzer, Ph.D. Psychology Department Yoga is being increasingly taught in school settings as a technique to help students regulate their emotions and manage their stress and mood. In my role as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, I had the pleasure of studying the science behind how yoga helps students cope with stress.  […]

David Novák IT Manager In an effort to encourage UNYP students to write with originality and integrity, the University of New York in Prague has implemented the Turnitin plagiarism detection software into its e-learning platform Moodle. The web-based form of Turnitin has been used by several UNYP faculty members for years, and the integrated software will be […]

Plesová sezóna začíná a s ní i důležitý den v životě mnoha středoškoláků – maturitní ples. Ještě než se v květnu rozběhne kolotoč maturitních zkoušek, je potřeba podstoupit také zkoušku společenskou. Ukázat se svým rodičům, učitelům i spolužákům na reprezentativní akci v tom nejlepším světle. Nikdo ale neříká, že si z maturitního plesu nemůžete udělat i skvělou párty a náležitě […]

2015 was an amazing year for the University of New York in Prague and our students, professors and friends. Check out what we achieved over the year and choose your favorite UNYP moment… Londýnská, here we go… Is there any better location for a university in Prague than the Londýnská street in Vinohrady? Our new […]

Three UNYP students, Danai Baouraki, Nikola Kmoníčková and Daniela Slezáková, took part in the Unilever Future Leaders‘ League (UFLL) and won the CEE National Final which took place in Warsaw in December 2015.  Unilever Future Leaders’ League is a marketing competition that brings together students from all over the world to participate in a creative brand challenge […]

On January 3rd, the Financial Times reported about the rise of Eastern European business schools and their competitiveness with their Western counterparts.  The article highlights the vast difference and inadequacies of business schools in the 1990’s siting several examples of schools in Eastern Europe. It is explained that neither the content of the curriculum nor the style of […]

Can Money Buy Us Happiness? Research shows that it can, but under one condition – when it is spent on others. In one experiment (Dunn et al., 2008) participants were given a $5 or $20 bill and told either to spend it on others or to buy something for themselves. Those who spent the money […]

Voluntair introduced the world of international volunteering to UNYP students during a recent presentation at the university. Voluntair introduced the world of international volunteering to UNYP students during a recent presentation at the university. Based in Prague, Voluntair is bringing a novel business model to the local market; the ability to see the world through community service. As a […]

Todd Nesbitt Chair of Communication and Mass Media Department It was a year of forgetting. It was a year of forgetting that countless numbers of our parents, and our grandparents, and our great-grandparents, once fled their homes due to war, persecution, and totalitarianism. Todd Nesbitt Chair of Communication and Mass Media  It was a year […]