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A total of 1,403 higher education institutions from 95 countries were assessed in the second edition of the QS Sustainability Rankings, which evaluates the contribution of universities to tackling the challenges of sustainable development. Masaryk University is ranked first in the Czech Republic and 161st in the world.
Last week, Czeducon, a conference on internationalisation in higher education, took place in Brno, attended by over 500 representatives of Czech and universities from abroad. The evening programme included Alumni talks with international graduates from Masaryk.
Shanghai Ranking, a leading ranking company, recently released an international comparison of higher education institutions by subject area. Masaryk University secured a spot in the world’s top 200 in two subjects, and it is currently the top-ranking institution in the Czech Republic in three subjects.
Vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies Šárka Pospíšilová presented awards for excellent achievements in doctoral programmes at MUNI to forty graduates and their supervisors and consultants.
The 8th edition of the university rowing competition also included a dragon boat race. Masaryk University won over Mendel University.
At the start of the current academic year, Jana Fialová became the vice-rector for student affairs and external relations. She had previously served as the vice-dean for student affairs at the Faculty of Medicine since 2018.
The refectory of the Old Brno Abbey at Mendlovo náměstí hosted a ceremony at which twenty-three associate professors from seven faculties received their appointment decrees.
Sports, fun and knowledge – this was the motto of the now traditional MUNI Day event organised for students and employees of Masaryk University.
Twenty-seven-year-old Norwegian Eirik Karlsen worked in the army for three years but then found out during a first-aid training session that he was drawn to working with and treating people. So, he decided to go back to school again, this time as a general medicine student at MU.
Ten years after graduating from Masaryk University, Canadian Dale Kalina returned to Brno to reminisce about his studies at the Faculty of Medicine. The infectious diseases specialist, who appeared almost daily in the Canadian media during the pandemic, also met with MU students.
The Academic Senate of Masaryk University elected the new Rector of Masaryk University in the first round of voting. There was just one candidate – the current MU Rector Martin Bareš, who thus won his second term of office beginning on 1 September 2023.
On the occasion of Belarusian Freedom Day, around forty Belarusians living in Brno came to the statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk on Saturday in an expression of thanks for his help. Among them were also students from MU.