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Úvodní slovo
An introductory word
Dear colleagues,
summer and vacation time are coming, and I really wish you to enjoy it and gain the necessary strength for the next academic year.
I would like to introduce important changes in two areas of undergraduate studies. I would like to ask the academic staff to familiarize themselves with them as well and to proceed according to them from the new semester, you will help the faculty a lot.
The first area of change concerns the MUNI Study and Examination Regulations. They will start paying with the next academic year, i.e. from September. The so-called Common University Foundation also underwent a transformation. We have devoted a short article to each of these topics in this newsletter.
I greet everyone warmly, thank you for your daily efforts and wish you as much energy as possible until the end of the semester.
Your
Pavel Lízal
Vice-dean for undergraduate studies
Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
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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 of the Doctoral study programme. Moreover, the award was also presented to three teams of fourteen outstanding students of the pregraduate and postgraduate programmes. Congratulations to all the winners!
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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 Bochníček, a Vice-Dean for Teacher Programmes at the Faculty of Science of MUNI and the head of the section Didactics of Physics, Department of Plasma Physics and Technology.
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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!
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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 Petr Hasil, the head of Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Congratulations!
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The ceremony of handing over the appointment decrees to the new Associate Professors took place in the refectory of the Augustinian Abbey on Mendel Square. Twenty-four Associate Professors were successfully habilitated at eight MU faculties, including Ondřej Caha, Jaroslav Hnilica and Petra Procházková Schrumpfová from our Faculty of Science. Congratulations!
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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' analytical thinking. The change now applies to the following programmes: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemistry and Technology of Materials for Conservation – Restoration and Environment and Health. Students can also carry out their final projects during placements abroad, increasing international cooperation and mobility.
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Researcher Tereza Jeřábková has been awarded a MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH) by the MU Grant Agency. Jeřábková has spent the last several years abroad. She is the first female recipient of a MASH grant. She will work on her research, which is focused on understanding how stars develop in different environments, at the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
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The Learned Society of the Czech Republic awarded Barbora Rudzanová from Masaryk university, RECETOX Centre of the Faculty of Science. It awarded her the Jiřina Michlová Prize for students of doctoral study programmes. The Medals for Merit for the Development of Science and awards to distinguished scientists, teachers and talented university and high school students were presented on 20 May 2024 at the Carolinum in Prague.
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Let us introduce the news valid from September: Oral exam only in the presence of three people, verbal evaluation of the course of the state exam or the possibility to have a representative from the faculty management during the non-public part of the resit period of the state exam.
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From autumn 2024, MUNI will have enough so-called CORE courses. Therefore, a Common University Courses will be implemented across the entire university under conditions outlined by Pavel Lízal, Vice-Dean for undergraduate education.
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Top science, but also a programme for the general public. Expert topics, but also space for fun and nice meetings. This is a brief summary of the STARMUS festival of science, music and art, which took place from 12 May to 17 May 2024 in Bratislava and in which the Faculty of Science of Masaryk university joined the programme as a university partner.
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The HR Award team at SCI MUNI is contributing to the development of a personnel strategy for the research centers of three partner institutions as part of the Central European Platform for Plasma-enabled Surface Engineering (COLOSSE) project. This project connects Masaryk University (Ceplant center), the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, and Comenius University in Bratislava. The aim of the personnel strategy being developed is to support international recruitment, onboarding, and development of researchers in accordance with the European Charter and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.
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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 a gender equality audit, featuring structured individual and group interviews with our employees, led by an auditor.
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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.
According to the director of the botanical garden Magdalena Chytrá, should the Faculty of Science take the victory, the prize money will be used for the construction of ponds and wetland areas for endangered species on the list of the Working group for gene pools of the Union of Botanical Gardens of the Czech Republic.
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Plant diversity in European forests, wetlands and grasslands is rapidly disappearing. This long-term trend is now confirmed by representative data. Botanists from Brno's Masaryk University, in cooperation with more than 250 scientists from most European countries, have collected an extensive data set, which makes it possible to reliably assess changes in flora, vegetation and natural habitats across the European continent.
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Take an altermagnet, put it under an x-ray machine, change the polarizing filter and watch the material absorb the light. It sounds like an experiment from a physics class, but in fact it is a groundbreaking experiment that lead to a remarkable discovery by physicists from Masaryk University, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University and the University of Nottingham.
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Some microorganisms, such as lactic acid bacteria or yeasts, have been helping humans since time immemorial. Since the last century, they have helped humans as a kind of cellular factories to produce important medicines, some industrial chemicals, biofuels, food ingredients or promising new materials. For this production they need sugar, most often glucose from plants. Scientists have now explored how bacteria can "learn" to process new groups of sugars, for example from waste plant biomass.
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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 Letters.
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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 of their research were published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography.
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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. One of the lead authors of the study published in the prestigious journal Nature was Michal Zajaček from the Masaryk University, Faculty of Science
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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 for the telescope in recent months, completed its installation and started testing it a few days ago. The telescope can be operated remotely and will be used by Brno scientists and students.
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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 of the final workshop presentation: Swam Pyae Paing’s team.
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Masaryk University celebrated its 105th anniversary with two sports and social events that took place on the university campus in Bohunice in mid-May.
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Ongoing Competitions and Awards
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- Vice-Rector's Award for Excellence in Doctoral Studies
- MŠMT Award for Extraordinary Results in Research, Experimental Development and Innovation
- South Moravian Region Award
- Falling Walls Lab Czech Republic
- European Statistics Awards for Web Intelligence
- Novo Nordisk Prize
- Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
- Brno City Award
- MŠMT Award for Outstanding Students and Graduates
- MŠMT Award for Outstanding Educational Activity at a University
- CRYTUR Prize
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9 Jan 16:00
Join us for an insightful lecture of Professor Robert A. Harris from Karolinska Institutet.
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25 Jan
Do you enjoy science and mathematics? Do you long for a scientific career? Do you dream of becoming a recognized professional in your field? Or do you want to teach the next generation of high school students? Then the MU Faculty of Science is right for you!
Come on Saturday 25 or Monday 27 January 2025! You will visit our state-of-the-art laboratories and meet your future teachers. You will learn more about entrance exams and how to avoid them.
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27 Jan
Do you enjoy science and mathematics? Do you long for a scientific career? Do you dream of becoming a recognized professional in your field? Or do you want to teach the next generation of high school students? Then the MU Faculty of Science is right for you!
Come on Saturday 25 or Monday 27 January 2025! You will visit our state-of-the-art laboratories and meet your future teachers. You will learn more about entrance exams and how to avoid them.
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13 Mar 17:00
 MELINA SCHUH
Mendel´s refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno
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20 Mar 16:00
PIERRE STALLFORTH
Lecture will be held in English
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3 Apr 17:00
REINHARD LÜHRMANN
Mendel´s refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno
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24 Apr 17:00
ZHIJIAN ‘JAMES’ CHEN
Mendel´s refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno
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15 May 16:00
IAN HANDERSON
Lecture will be held in English
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The editorial deadline for the next employee newsletter is September 13, 2024. Please, send your articles in Czech and English to pr@sci.muni.cz and we will be happy to publish them.
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