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25 Jan

Teachers let us do practical tasks, praises Serbian student

Serbian student Tijana Joksić visited Brno for the first time when she came to see her boyfriend who had moved to work for a local IT company. She was so impressed by the student city, its architecture, and the modern facilities of Masaryk University that she immediately started looking if the university...

24 Jan

A multi-layered personality, Jana Šmardová. Jana’s book, ‘What Tumours Teach Us’, has now been published in English

On January 17, 2024, the English edition of the book ‘What Tumors Teach Us: Parallels in the Behaviour of Cells and People’ by Jana Šmardová († August 31, 2023) was launched. In this article, you will also learn that the teaching of her course, ‘Tumor Biology for Everyone − or Cell Philosophy’, continues...

24 Jan

Results of the MUNI Faculty of Science Questionnaire Survey conducted in October 2023

In connection with an important milestone in the implementation of the Faculty HR strategy - the Renewal of the HR Excellence in Research Award, which the Faculty is expecting in 2024, we addressed the employees of the Faculty with a request to fill in an anonymous online questionnaire. You can now have...

19 Jan

Security at MU: early warning and police cooperation in prevention

Masaryk University has established an emergency communication and management system and is now working on increasing security. These issues are being addressed by the MU management and the Rector’s Board, whose members include deans as the highest representatives of individual faculties.

18 Jan

Crisis Management Beyond the Arctic Circle

The Crisis Management Beyond the Arctic Circle training took place at the Faculty Science of MU.

17 Jan

Scientists are heading to Antarctica on Masaryk University’s 20th expedition

A total of 24 participants, including three women, will take part in Masaryk University’s 20th expedition to Antarctica. Most of the expedition (around two months) will be spent at the J.G. Mendel Czech Antarctic Station on James Ross Island. During their stay, as well as their normal research activities,...

17 Jan

Tomáš Kašparovský, Dean of the MU Faculty of Science, has been elected as the new chairperson of the Council of Higher Education Institutions

The Assembly of the Council of Higher Education Institutions has elected Tomáš Kašparovský, Dean of Masaryk University’s Faculty of Science, as its new chairperson for the period 2024 to 2026. He received 163 out of a total of 189 votes.

15 Jan

The deans of the faculties of science discuss the training of future teachers

At a two-day meeting in Hradec Králové, members of the Association of Deans of Science Faculties discussed the lack of science teachers in primary and secondary schools.

10 Jan

MU: TOP 400 globally, TOP 200 in Europe, and first in Czechia in sustainability

Masaryk University had its most successful year in international university rankings measuring the quality of universities worldwide.

21 Dec 2023

Statement of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University

Students and employees of the Faculty of Science at MU are shocked by the tragic event that occurred today at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague. We express our deepest condolences to the bereaved family of the victims of the shooting.

19 Dec 2023

The Jaroslav Heyrovský Foundation Award for Molecular Biology goes to the Faculty of Science

The Jaroslav Heyrovský Foundation Prize in the Molecular Biology category for 2023 was awarded to high school student Tereza Šustrová and her supervisor Martin Marek from the Loschmidt Laboratories at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, where the young researcher developed a project as part...

14 Dec 2023

The President handed over the decrees to the new professors

President Petr Pavel and education minister Mikuláš Bek handed over appointment decrees to new professors, including Slavomir Nehyba from the Department of Geological Sciences. Congratulations!