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26 Jan 2022

Are you thirty years old and from Znojmo? Scientists will examine you in one morning

Asthma, allergies, and other diseases that can be caused by stress during pregnancy are in the sights of scientists from Masaryk University in Brno. They need volunteers from Znojmo for their research. Thousands of families have been involved in the past. Read more in the Znojemský deník (available in...

26 Jan 2022

Czech chemist reaches out to solve major clean energy problem

Our graduate Tomáš Slanina has received a prestigious ERC grant for his team to research the storage of solar energy in chemical bonds. Read more in the article on SeznamZpravy.cz (available in Czech only).

25 Jan 2022

Brno scientists study death rays from space, collaborate with Elon Musk

On Thursday afternoon, Brno made a new entry into the history of space research. Two gamma-ray detectors from a research group led by Norbert Werner from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University flew into space at 4:30 pm on Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Read more in Brněnský deník (available...

24 Jan 2022

They wrote about us: Botanical Garden celebrates 100 years

The Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University celebrates its centenary this year. Read about the history in Brno-Central Newspaper. (Published in Czech only.)

19 Jan 2022

Launch of the MUNI Employee Portal

The faculty section of the MUNI Employee Portal will be released for MU Faculty of Science employees on 1 February 2022. The Portal will provide them with simplified central access to various applications (IS, Inet, O365) and central access to internal faculty information, documents and instructions...

14 Jan 2022

Czech Republic has another satellite in space

The Czech Republic has another satellite of its own in space, about an hour and a half ago it was carried into orbit by a SpaceX rocket. The aim of the satellite, about the size of a wine box, is to test instruments developed by domestic companies in the hostile space environment. Scientists from Masaryk...

14 Jan 2022

Falcon rocket carried the Czech satellite VZLUSat-2 into space

Two different devices from Czech scientists placed in one satellite were carried into orbit by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday afternoon. VZLUSat-2 was originally scheduled to fly into space a year ago, but administrative problems delayed the launch. (ČT24 published the article only in Czech.)

6 Jan 2022

The act of reverence commemorated the anniversary of the death of Gregor Johann Mendel

Today, representatives of the Region, Town Hall, Masaryk University, together with the Augustinians and other influential personalities, commemorated the 138th anniversary of the death of the discoverer of the fundamental laws of inheritance by a reverential act at the grave of Gregor Johann Mendel at...

20 Dec 2021

HR Award News in the second half of 2021

In the past year 2021, which was affected by the pandemic also from the perspective of the HR Award project, especially in personal meeting opportunities, we continued to successfully implement the new HR strategy of the Faculty of Science MU. We were pleased that we got to the stage where we could share...

16 Dec 2021

President Zeman appointed new professors

On Wednesday, 15 December 2021, President Miloš Zeman appointed 80 new university professors on the basis of proposals from the scientific and artistic boards of universities. Tomáš Kašparovský, Petr Kubíček and Štěpánka Vaňáčová from our Faculty of Science are among the newly appointed professors....

13 Dec 2021

The expedition will leave for Antarctica equipped with disinfectant, respirators and tests

Strict anti-epidemic measures will accompany this year’s expedition to Antarctica. Despite all the 16-member group having been compulsorily vaccinated, a detailed examination at the Ostrava University Hospital and a seven-day quarantine awaits them before they set off for the J. G. Mendel base on James...

8 Dec 2021

The Dean awarded personalities of our Faculty of Science

Updated. On Friday, the Dean of the Faculty of Science Tomáš Kašparovský honoured 36 personalities who had made a significant contribution to the development of the Faculty, and its departments and institutes, over the last few decades.