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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.

10 Aug 2022

Graduation ceremony

Updated. In July, we held graduation ceremonies for our successful graduates. We would like to congratulate the new masters and engineers and wish them much professional and personal success!

8 Aug 2022

Ludovic Mayer: Don’t be scared to go far for new experience

Ludovic, a Ph.D. student in Environment and Health, is not afraid of any challenge, and scientific research is one big adventure. He comes from a tiny French town called Saint-Avold, and he liked the RECETOX research topics so much that he decided to move to the South Moravian metropolis. His research...

5 Aug 2022

Tumours teach us how to live well and survive, says microbiologist Šmardová

Cancer arises from cells that violate the basic rules of coexistence and cooperation. Altogether, there are eleven typical characteristics that distinguish tumours from healthy tissues. Molecular biologist Jana Šmardová believes that these features reflect more general principles that underlie the proper...

4 Aug 2022

I'm not a lab person, but I want to change legislation as a scientist

Natálie Šelleová is a second-year bachelor's student in Environment and Health. Although she does not want to work in a lab in the future, human health and environmental issues are her top-of-mind priorities. After her studies, she desires to be a person explaining complex scientific issues to the public...

3 Aug 2022

Dry streams

According to experts from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, extreme drought is prevailing in several domestic regions. The situation is worst in the south-eastern part of Moravia, where many streams have already dried up. The new Dry Rivers app is designed to monitor the water levels in these...

27 Jul 2022

We celebrated a thousand followers, blew up a kilo of gunpowder, smiles award-winning chemistry teacher

Radek Matuška, a graduate of our faculty, is a chemistry teacher at the Secondary Industrial School of Chemistry in Brno. A few years ago, he was voted the best chemist in the Golden Amos survey, and now he has received an award from the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. In his classes, he is not...

22 Jul 2022

Gold medals of MU awarded to founders of Mendel Lectures

Geneticist and biochemistry professor Kim Nasmyth and his wife Anna, who are currently attending the Mendel Genetics Conference, will be bringing home to Oxford one of the most prestigious recognitions of Masaryk University.