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22 Sep 2022

MUNI Mendel Doctorandus programme offers new benefits

As part of inter-faculty cooperation within Masaryk University, four faculties and one research facility have signed an agreement on common standards for doctoral studies.

MUNI Mendel Doctorandus is a new developmental programme for the most active students of doctoral studies.

Bike room on Kotlářská campus

Dear cyclists, we are very happy that you are cycling to school and saving the environment. THANK YOU for using the bike room behind building 4 to park your bikes.

16 Sep 2022

The Rector's Award for Outstanding Teachers was awarded to Jan Šmarda

On Thursday, the Rector of Masaryk University (MU) Martin Bareš opened the new academic year 2022/2023 at the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. During the ceremony, he presented the Rector's Awards to outstanding teachers. The Masaryk University Rector's Award for outstanding teachers in the field of natural...

15 Sep 2022

Faculty celebrated the 99th birthday of physicist Martin Černohorský with a seminar

The seminar filled with lectures and reminiscences commemorated this year's 99th birthday of Martin Černohorský, emeritus professor of physics at the Faculty of Science and emeritus rector of the Silesian University in Opava. The seminar was jointly organized by three physics departments of our faculty...

Garden festival at Kotlářská enjoyed by students and employees

On Monday, 12 September 2022, an event called "Garden Party on Kotlářská Campus" took place, which officially opened the new academic year at the Faculty of Science of MU (SCI MUNI). More than 350 visitors from among students, staff and other guests arrived in the park in front of the Dean's Office of...

5 Sep 2022

G. J. Mendel: modest, patient and principled

Although Mendel suffered from a protracted and painful illness, he rarely complained in the last days of his life. In one of his last letters, 18 days before his death, he wrote to his personal friend, the meteorologist prof. J. Líznar that he is so ill that he can no longer even read meteorological...

24 Aug 2022

Brno PhD talent 2022

The Brno City Council and the South Moravian Centre for International Mobility have prepared a competition for students in first-year of PhD studies, offering long-term financial and career support for 25 talented PhD students in the form of a scholarship of up to CZK 110,000 per year for three...

22 Aug 2022

How to teach geography in the age of the internet and navigation

New trends in teaching geography, when pupils can find a lot of geographic data on the Internet and use mobile phone navigation to find their way, are the topic of this year's Summer Geography School in Brno. Experts warn against the opinion that teaching geography is useless in view of the development...

18 Aug 2022

PhD Day & MUNI Mendel Doctorandus

This year, the Faculty of Science of MU, in cooperation with other faculties of the university, organises PhD Day - but this year finally, in person!

16 Aug 2022

Specially designed antibacterial coating under practical testing

The first practical trial of antibacterial coatings developed at the Department of Physical Electronics is undergoing now. These coating possible applications are in highly exposed areas such as in hospitals, schools, or other high-traffic places.

12 Aug 2022

Research on the habanese burial site in Přibice demolishes myths about their great stature

The anthropological and archaeological research of the cemetery in Přibice in the Brno region provides a unique insight into the life of the members of the reformist Christian society, also known as Habáni. A team of anthropologists from the Institute of Anthropology of the MU Faculty of Science has...

11 Aug 2022

Brno is a great place to live and do research

After finishing her master's degree in Brazil, Marina Grossi was looking for a Ph.D. opportunity abroad. Luckily, she found a Ph.D. offer at RECETOX, and she applied for it. She has been studying at RECETOX for three years.