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13 Jun 2024

Dean’s Awards 2024

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 ten laureates in the Best Student category in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme, and to eleven promising scientists in the Best Student category...

12 Jun 2024

The Faculty of Science replaces Bachelor's theses in chemistry with a final project

The Faculty of Science of Masaryk University is introducing an innovative way of completing Bachelor's studies, replacing the traditional Bachelor's thesis with a final project. This step addresses the need for a greater emphasis on experimental and creative activities, practical skills, and students'...

11 Jun 2024

Zdeněk Bochníček won the Martin Černohorský's Award

The Union of czech mathematicians and physicists (JČMF) bestows the Martin Černohorský's Award for those who significantly contributed to physics education. This prize in honor of the distinguished professor Martin Černohorský was awarded only for the second time. This year's first prize goes to Zdeněk...

10 Jun 2024

Zoologists revealed mechanisms behind the long evolution of Vertigo snails

Vertigo snails have lived on Earth for tens of millions of years, and in that time they have inhabited every continent except the Antarctica. An international team of zoologists led by researchers from Masaryk University has shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms of these tiny land snails. The results...

5 Jun 2024

Birth of Giants: Supermassive black holes formed differently than previously thought

New discoveries suggest that supermassive black holes formed differently thanpreviously thought. Orsolya Kovács from Masaryk University, who discovered one of the distant "giants" with the Chandra satellite and the James Webb Telescope, has published her findings in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal...

5 Jun 2024

MUNI Seminar Series links mathematics with neuroscience and economics with sociology

The MUNI Seminar Series regularly offers lectures on current trends in science and the opportunity to meet leading figures from different fields in three areas.

3 Jun 2024

Vote for our botanical garden. It is about half a million!

The E.ON Energy Globe competition has six finalists. Among them, the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. The prize money amounting to half a million will go to the project which amasses the most votes by 20 August. Actor and presenter Lukáš Hejlík is the ambassador of our...

31 May 2024

Masaryk University observatory telescope will monitor the southern sky

Astrophysicists from Masaryk University have shown the first photos of the southern night sky taken by the observing telescope that the university has installed at the Boyden Observatory in South Africa. In collaboration with colleagues from South Africa's Free State University, they prepared the observatory...

28 May 2024

Swam Pyae Paing’s team delivers best presentation of Data Analytics Bootcamp 2024

The Data Analytics study programme Bootcamp Workshop has run from 13 to 17 May 2024 at Hotel U Crlíku, Tetčice, close to Brno, Czechia. All teams were presenting their solutions for real world problems. On-site participants than competed with their team’s work-in-progress presentations. Meet the winner...

24 May 2024

First Phase of a Gender Equality Re-Audit at SCI MUNI: Individual and Group Interviews Successfully Conducted

In May 2024, we launched an analytical phase of the project "Introducing a Flexible Working Culture and a Support System for Parents on Maternity and Parental Leave into the Working Environment of the MU Faculty of Science" as part of the Employment Plus Operational Programme (OPZ+). This phase includes...

24 May 2024

Dies academicus: Recognition of personalities who bring distinction to our faculty and the university

On the occasion of Dies academicus, the University honoured outstanding researchers and successful students, awarding its Gold and Silver medals to the laureates. The MU Rector's Award went to Peter Fabian, Daniel Pluskal, Július Vida and Domagoj Gajski. Congratulations to all the awardees!

23 May 2024

Astronomers measure the rotation of a supermassive black hole for the first time

Astronomers have for the first time measured the rotation of a supermassive black hole using the wobbling of gaseous material from a disintegrated star. The results, obtained by an international team of scientists, offer a new way to study supermassive black holes and their evolution in the Universe....