During the graduation ceremonies held on June 13, Rector Taras Dobko presented awards to faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional success in scientific research and gained recognition both within Ukraine and abroad.
The Rector’s Award named after Professor Ihor Skochylyas was presented to Daria Syroid, Associate Professor in the Department of Liturgical Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, for her monograph, The Holy Apostle and Protomartyr: Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla in the Kyiv Tradition, published in the Kyiv Christianity series.
UCU Rector’s Awards Ceremony
Viktor Zhukovsky, Doctor of Theology and Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (History of Philosophy), who serves as Head of the Department of Theology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, received the Rector’s Award for his monograph, The Omnipresent Trinity: From the Otherworld to the Maidan.
UCU Rector’s Awards Ceremony
The award was also granted to Ivan Almes, Director of the Ihor Skochylyas Center for Religious Culture, academic co-coordinator of the “Kyiv Christianity” program, and Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities, along with Natalia Fedyshyn, a postgraduate student in the Department of History, for the compilation and publication of the monograph The Making and Remembering of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych, 17th–20th Century.
UCU Rector’s Awards Ceremony
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The Rector’s Award for excellence in academic research—specifically for publications in high-impact journals—was awarded to the following teams:
- Departments of Psychology and Clinical Psychology: Maryana Mykolaychuk, Oleksandr Avramchuk, Tetyana Zavada, and Oksana Senyk for the article, “Understanding the clinical profile of Continuous Traumatic Stress Responses: insights from the adaptation of the Continuous Traumatic Stress Response Scale (CTSR) in Ukrainian military personnel,” European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 17(1).
UCU Rector’s Awards Ceremony
- Faculty of Applied Sciences: Tetyana Zakharchenko and Nazar Drushchak for the article, “Estimating the impact of the Russian invasion on the displacement of graduating high school students in Ukraine,” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, 836 (2025).
- Faculty of Applied Sciences: Markiyan Kostiv, Mykyta Varenyk, Ostap Vinyavsky, Ihor Krashen, and Oles Dobosevich for the article, “Self-Supervised Real-Time Tracking of Military Vehicles in Low-FPS UAV Footage,” 2025 International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), Oeiras, Portugal, 2025, pp. 1–8.
UCU Rector’s Awards Ceremony
- Interdisciplinary Research Team: Myroslava Chekh (Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration; Head of the Master’s Program in Public Management and Administration), Valeria Kozlova (Guest Lecturer, UCU Business School; Expert in Systems Development, Global Strategy, and Effective Thinking), Sofiya Opatska (Vice-Rector for Strategic Development; Founding Dean and Chair of the Supervisory Board, UCU Business School), Father Andriy Shestak (Director of the School of Journalism and Communications; Deputy Dean for Communications, Faculty of Social Sciences), Olena Trevy (Academic Leader, Key Executive MBA Program, UCU Business School), Marta Tychenko (Head of Student Career and Employment), and Maria Tytarenko (Associate Professor, Media Communications Department) for the article, “‘See us’: an urgent call to collaborate with colleagues in crisis environments around the world,” Teaching in Higher Education, 2025, Vol. 30, No. 2, 544–554.
UCU Rector’s Awards Ceremony
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The Ukrainian Catholic University community congratulates the recipients of the Rector’s Award! We wish you continued success as you inspire colleagues and students through your service and academic contributions!
