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His Eminence Elpidophoros, Archbishop of America, visited the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

During a meeting with the Rector, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, the Vice-Rector, Professor Christos Karagiannis, and the Dean of the School of Theology, Professor Emmanouil Karageorgoudis, participants discussed matters concerning the…

Andreas Papapetropoulos, Professor of Pharmacology and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, has been awarded the title of doctor honoris causa from Semmelweis University. Based in Budapest and founded in 1769, Semmelweis University is Hungary’s oldest and largest institute of higher…

The opening lecture of the LSE Athens Lecture Series, organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in collaboration with the University of Athens, the Department of Business Administration, and the MSc Financial Technology (FinTech), took place to great acclaim.

The event was held on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, in…

The inaugural Panhellenic Conference on Traditional Dance took place in Limassol, Cyprus, from November 21 to 23. Under the theme ‘Traditional Dance in the Scholarly Landscape of the 21st Century’, the event was co-organized by the ‘Alexandra’ Traditional Dance Workshop, the Cyprus University of Technology, the Open University of Cyprus, and…

Vatera, a coastal stretch on the island of Lesbos renowned for its remarkable fossils, continues to attract scientific interest. Recent research conducted by the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment at the University of Athens has shed new light on what the landscape looked like millions of years ago, offering a clearer picture of the…

*By Professor Gerasimos Siasos, Rector of the University of Athens. ‘The University of Athens’ newspaper, issue 5, distributed with the Greek Sunday newspaper ‘To Vima tis Kyriakis’ on 23 November 2025

Since its foundation in 1837, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has served, in the words of its first Rector, Konstantinos…

The Inter-institutional Sports Meeting between the University of Cyprus and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) took place on Monday, 10 November 2025, with Football, Futsal, and Tennis fixtures capturing the excitement of both participants and spectators. Teams competed at the Near East Municipal Football Ground and the…

The international conference marking 1700 years of the First Council of Nicaea opened in the presence of His Beatitude Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. The event, titled ‘The Historical Significance and Contemporary Relevance of the First Ecumenical Council’, was organized by the School of Theology of the National and…

On Sunday, 23 November, NKUA released the latest edition of ‘The University of Athens, a Newspaper of Science, Education and Culture’, distributed with the Greek Sunday newspaper ‘To Vima tis Kyriakis’. The front page of this fifth issue features, as its main story, an interview with Greece’s central banker and Professor Emeritus at the…

Timothy M. Pawlik, Professor of Surgical Oncology and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa of the School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The ceremony took place on Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at 18:00, at the Propylaea…