Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• coronavirus threat
• Jaroslav Flegr

• Vladimír Šigut, wikipedia commons, shutterstock
• Zpráva dne: Ne

Well-known evolutionary biologist and parasitologist Jaroslav Flegr, who teaches at CU’s Faculty of Science, anticipated in August that things weren’t going to go the way we hoped regarding the coronavirus. As of last week, cases jumped to record levels in the Czech Republic.

Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• cultural anthropology
• visiting professors
• prison culture

• Martin Pinkas, Shutterstock

John M. Coggeshall is a professor of anthropology at Clemson University in South Carolina. As a cultural anthropologist, Coggeshall has spent his career researching American regional ethnic and social groups.

Details

Written by: Marcela Uhlíková

Category: Unilife

• Faculty of Science archives
• Zpráva dne: Ne

Dean Jiří Zima’s studies and career at CU’s Faculty of Science spans some 40 years, going from student to scientific researcher to assistant and professor. As dean, he has overseen numerous successes at what is one of the university’s biggest and most popular faculties. This week, the faculty will celebrate 100 years since it was founded on 24 June 1920.

Details

Written by: Jitka Jiřičková

Category: Unilife

• René Volfík, M. Slussareff personal archive, Shutterstock

Within the few square metres, the members of this species now work, teach, learn, play, as well as yell, cry, and run the household, often at the same time or in quick succession.

Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• social sciences
• programming
• 1980s
• retro
• Jaroslav Švelch

• Vladimír Šigut, Shutterstock

PCs were almost impossible to get in 1980s Czechoslovakia but microcomputers proved a different matter. As so-called micros were slowly smuggled into the country and hobby programming quickly caught on, enthusiasts soon coded all manner of computer games. Under the radar of the authorities, some subtly - and others rather daringly – mocked the socialist regime.

Details

Written by: Jitka Jiřičková

Category: Unilife

• Luboš Wišniewski

If you’re planning your first camping weekend in years but your tent isn’t as waterproof as it once was or - by contrast – you have a food processor doing virtually no slicing and dicing but just gathering dust at home, try saving both time and money by visiting Kampus Hybernská. Donate what you no longer need and borrow an item you do, at the Kampus’ very own Library of Things.

Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• support
• solidarity

Charles University, together with the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, the Czech Philharmonic and Prague City Hall, are officially supporting a donation drive organised by the National Technical Museum to help raise funds for the rebuilding of Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Details

Written by: Marcela Uhlíková

Category: Unilife

• Zpráva dne: Ne

“Better pay and promising careers leading to brain drain in health sector” or similar headlines have long been a staple in the Czech media and statistics indeed point to some 10 percent of graduates from medical faculties heading abroad upon completing their studies. In 2018, the Czech Medical Chamber registered the departure of 193 recent graduates.

Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• alumni
• politics

• Vladimir Šigut,

More and more cities around the world are introducing a job at city hall known as the Night Mayor – an official tasked with cultivating nightlife while lessening negatives such as noise, vandalism, or generally rowdy behaviour disturbing residents’ lives and sleep.

Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• education
• law

Street Law is a program first introduced by Georgetown University in the United States in the early 1970s to boost professional development of its law students while passing on practical knowledge in high schools. Inspired by the project, The Faculty of Law’s Michal Urban founded a Street Law chapter at Charles University in 2009.

Details

Category: Unilife

• Marcela Uhlíková, Photography: Petr Jan Juračka

“You hear lots of good ideas over a lifetime but when an idea becomes reality, that’s truly exceptional,” is how Jiří Zima, dean of Charles University’s Faculty of Science, sums up the installation of an exceptional interactive Periodic Table at the Chemistry Institute found in Albertov in Prague.

Details

Written by: Jan Velinger

Category: Unilife

• student life
• arts
• humour

If you are one of the two thousand or so people who attended the První republika festival organised by Charles University (and the First Faculty of Medicine) last weekend, you probably caught sight of a poster of T.G. Masaryk, as drawn by Jaz. He is the anonymous author of Opráski sčeskí historje – an irreverent comic strip that has achieved cult status through an unusual take on Czech history and the Czech language.

Details

Written by: Administrátor

Category: Unilife

• Zpráva dne: Ne

One thing that most foreign students do when they begin their studies at Charles University is immerse themselves in the local culture - from the arts and live events to seeing historic sites and getting to know the pub scene and more. But another way to learn about local culture, not suprisingly, is through literature.

Details

Written by: Administrátor

Category: Unilife

• Ivana Herglová
• Zpráva dne: Ne

The time of Advent at Charles University is traditionally celebrated by numerous Christmas concerts and other festive meetings of CU employees and students. The employees usually have a gathering within the institute or faculty they are working for; the latter mostly meet in one of the favourite student cafés or pubs close to their faculty building (as Czechs are lovers of beer, a pub is actually more likely than a café). 

Details

Category: Unilife

• Maria-Constanza Labra-Odde
• Map collection, Faculty of Science, Charles University

On the 28th of March 2018, Professor Chet Van Duzer from the Stanford University (California, US) presented the guest lecture “With Savage Pictures Fill their Gaps: Cartographer’s Fears of Blank Spaces” at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts‘ central library.