27 Jan 2022 Martin Černohorský received Brno City Prize Fifteen personalities were awarded the Brno City Prize for 2021. One of the awardees is Martin Černohorský, emeritus professor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at our faculty.
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...
