24 Jun 2022

Newly appointed professors receive their appointment decrees

The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Petr Gazdík, handed over appointment decrees to our new professors, including the geologist and volcanologist Lukáš Krmíček (Department of Geological Sciences), the molecular biologist and geneticist Roman Pantůček (Department of Experimental Biology) and astrophysicist Norbert Werner (Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics). Congratulations!

24 Jun 2022

“With today’s information technology and campus facilities, I would enjoy studying on my own”, says Pavel Lízal, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies.

Pavel Lízal, a former graduate of the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University (MU), has been working as a lecturer in the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology for more than 15 years.  In the following interview, he shares his experiences and his vision for the future.

13 Jun 2022

Gain more experience abroad

Academic and non-academic staff of Masaryk University can go on an up two-week teaching or training placement at a foreign university outside the European Union through the following two programmes, which we would like to draw your attention to.

9 Jun 2022

Academic Stress Inventory

College students may experience academic stress that is burdensome, however it can also be a tool to increase their performance. Finding out students' opinions, understanding their feelings, together with their experience with academic workload are very important for defining approaches in the university environment - approaches to you as students.

Dean’s Awards 2022

Dean Tomáš Kašparovský has presented awards to the best students of the MU Faculty of Science. This year’s Dean’s Awards were presented to a total of eight laureates in the Best Student category in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme, and to sixteen promising scientists in the Best Student category of the Doctoral study programme. For the very first time, a team of eight students from the Mendel Generation group also received an award. Congratulations to all the winners!

New faculty t-shirts SCITEM PRO… VĚDU

From May, the faculty will be introducing new promotional materials, including a new T-shirt in the faculty’s green colour with the inscription ‘MUNI SCITEM PRO VĚDU’, i.e. ‘MUNI WITH THE SENSE FOR SCIENCE’, complemented with graphics related to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Johann Mendel. The design is based on the new concept of ‘MUNI SCITEM PRO…’, I.E. ‘MUNI WITH THE SENSE FOR…’, which connects the MUNI SCI brand with the main topics of the faculty.

16 May 2022

Career Development Workshops for PhD Students and Postdoctoral Fellows of MU Faculty of Science

During April and May 2022, as part of the implementation of the faculty action plan of the HR Award project, we have organised three English workshops for Early Stage Researchers of the Faculty of Science of MU.

If we can’t all act together against climate change, it would be better to adapt to a new world rather than try to change it

Read the interview with polar explorer Daniel Nývlt, Head of the Czech Antarctic Research Programme. Daniel Nývlt leads the Department of Geography’s Polar-Geo-Lab scientific group at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Science. For the past twenty years, he has been undertaking intensive research in the Antarctic and Arctic, regions that he has visited many times in person.