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.

Time off for employees and students

There will be Dean’s time off on May 19, 2022 for all students in connection with the celebration of the Dies academicus 2022 ceremony and Campus day activities. Classes will not be held during this day. Employees participating in these events will be excused from their job duties.

FNUSA-ICRC and the Faculty of Science MU have signed a cooperation agreement

On Tuesday, January 26 2022, with the participation of the Director of St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno (FNUSA-ICRC), Ing. Vlastimil Vajdák, the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University (PřF MU), Prof. Mgr. Tomáš Kašparovský PhD, and the Director of the International Centre for Clinical Research at FNUSA-ICRC, Prof. MUDr. Irena Rektorová PhD, signed a cooperation agreement.

19 Apr 2022

For three months, she measured the stress of scientists on an expedition to Antarctica: I bribed them with chocolate.

"The prototype device we tested in Antarctica can measure stress. It could be used by pilots, astronauts, medics, but also by patients. It could help them to heal faster," says anthropologist Lucie Ráčková in an interview with Martin Veselovský for DVTV. (Available in Czech only.)