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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• medicine
• health
• psychology
• Martin Loučka
• paliative care

• Hynek Glos

The only certainty in our lives is its end. Yet we avoid the subject of dying as much as possible. “Palliative care is not just about the end of life. It is about living well for as long as possible, despite a serious illness,” says Martin Loučka, assistant professor at the Third Faculty of Medicine.

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• Primus
• CLIP
• medicine
• women of CU
• Women in Science

• Vladimír Šigut

“Doing science these days is generally quite stressful - you're constantly writing grants or explaining in evaluation reports why it's not working out the way you thought it would,” warns molecular geneticist Eva Froňková from the Second Medical Faculty of Charles University.

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• research
• mathematics
• awards
• appreciation
• Hans Raj Tiwary

• Tomáš Princ, Viktor Mácha, CU archives

“It is an unprecedented success,” says Martin Loebl, the head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at Charles University, regarding Hans Raj Tiwary. He has been awarded the Gödel Prize - one of the most prestigious awards in the field of computer science.

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Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Science

• CERGEEI
• research
• social sciences
• university life
• Jan Švejnar

• Pavla Hubálková
• David Bernard, CERGE-EI

“Any country should be able to draw upon its assets. Since we do not have mineral deposits, we must focus on education,” says top Czech economist Jan Švejnar, based at Columbia University in New York and at the CERGE-EI Economic Institute in Prague.

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• PedF
• mindfulness
• education
• Fulbright
• Women in Science

• CU archives, personal archives

Janet Tassell is a professor at at Western Kentucky University. During the winter semester, she spent three months as a Fulbright Scholar at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, where she conducted research to apply mindfulness practices in mathematics instruction.

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Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Science

• Miroslav Bárta
• research
• popularisation
• science communication
• appreciation

• Martin Rychlík
• CU archives, Vladimír Šigut

Miroslav Bárta from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU has received great international recognition, invited this year to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The AAA&S has existed since 1780: George Washington himself was a member.

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Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Science

• Gunther Kletetschka
• research
• space
• astronomy
• James Webb Space Telescope

• Vladimír Šigut, Shutterstock

A year-and-a-half since it was launched into orbit 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has proven to be an overwhelming success. The infrared observatory has stunned viewers from the get-go with images of unparalleled precision.

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Category: Science

• Nobel Prize
• space
• astronomy
• science communication
• Bolzano lecture series

• Michal Novotný, Shutterstock

The Bolzano lecture series, organised by the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, returned to Charles University this week. The guest lecturer invited to speak this year was German-born astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020.

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Category: Science

• Science
• research
• quality of life
• sleep
• journal

• Pavla Hubálková
• Shutterstock, CU archive

How is sleep related to quality of life? This question was the focus of research by the brother and sister team of Michaela and Aleš Kudrnáč from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. The results were published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• Science
• students
• internship
• science communication
• EMBL

• EMBL, PRBB, Pavla Hubálková

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) currently has 28 member countries and more than 110 independent research groups covering a wide spectrum of molecular biology in six cities in Europe. How is science communicated at EMBL? 

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• gender
• women of CU
• Kampus Hybernská
• equal opportunities
• Women in Science

• Jan Kolský

The celebrations of International Women's Day and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science were truly "international" at CU this year. More than 20 international women scientists who work at the university met at Kampus Hybernská to share their stories, experiences and motivations. 

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• research
• anniversary
• women of CU
• equal opportunities
• Women in Science

• CU archive, Michal Novotný

The whole world celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February. This year, Charles University decided to celebrate "internationally". We reached out to international female scientists working at Charles University and bring you two dozen experiences and stories.

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Written by: Pavla Hubálková

Category: Science

• Czexpats z UK
• networking
• Czexpats in Science
• YPIF

• Jan Havlík, CU archive

Charles University in cooperation with the Czexpats in Science Initiative is launching the Young Principal Investigator Forum #YPIF – a platform for meeting and exchanging information among young leaders of research groups from all institutions in the Czech Republic.

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Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Science

• Science
• students
• research
• innovation
• study programmes

• Pavla Hubálková
• Petr Jan Juračka, CU archive

“The era of superspecialists is coming to an end, the future belongs to graduates who can connect individual disciplines,” says biologist Jan Černý. That is why the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics agreed on a new Bachelor program called Science at CU.

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Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Science

• archaeology
• travel
• Israel
• David Rafael Moulis
• Tel Moza

• Helena Zdráhalová
• Michal Novotný, David Rafael Moulis

He first glimpsed the ancient world through the viewfinder as a teenager on a family holiday in Tunisia and for David Rafael Moulis it was a turning point. His camera eventually led him to Israel, as a member of a team from the Protestant Theological Faculty at Charles University. 

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