Five schools have submitted their candidate nominations for this year’s Student Nobel award organized by the University of Gdańsk Independent Student Association (ISA), a venture aimed at recognizing outstanding students. Of the submitted entries, 56 Pomerelia student nominees were acknowledged in the academic, social, sports, arts, and volunteer categories.
This year’s Student Nobel recipient is a Kashub, a graduate of the University of Gdańsk’s Polish Philology Master’s program and a multi-discipline PhD student of the Slavic Studies, Russian Philology, and Philosophy, Hanna Makurat.
Makurat has contributed a number of academic papers, mostly dealing with Kashubian culture (especially the language), and has published several works in Kashubian. She is also the author of the first thesis entirely written in the Kashubian language.
In 2007, Hanna Makurat had claimed the regional Primus Inter Pares award considered to be the Student Nobel’s preliminary.
More information about Makurat can be found on these Web sites:
- Hanna’s home page: hana.kashubia.com
- Biography and poetry published on the ZYMK portal
- Biography and works (original and translations) published on the Czëtnica portal
- Pictures from the Student Nobel award ceremony are available at ISA.