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The European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) announced on 6 July the names of 67 newly elected members, including geneticist and molecular haematologist Šárka Pospíšilová who leads the Medical Genomics Research Group at MU’s CEITEC and works at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Department of Internal Medicine, Haematology and Oncology of the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital Brno.

This year marked twenty-five years since the launch of Masaryk University’s official website. The first university website was made accessible in 1997.

Olha and Yevhenii Klopot have already been at Masaryk University for two months. They have found work at the Faculty of Education and the Teiresias Centre.

Ondřej Křivánek is a world-renowned physicist who received an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University.

On Friday the Czech Republic had become, for the second time, the head of the presidency of the Council of the European Union. The other two members of the trio are France and Sweden.

On 6 June, the Academic Senate of Masaryk University approved the MU budget for 2022; the MU Board of Trustees confirmed it on 20 June.

The Board of Trustees of Masaryk University elected their chairwoman and two deputy chairmen.

At the beginning of April, Violeta Osouchová became the new director of MU’s Centre for International Cooperation (CZS), which not only takes care of incoming and outgoing students but also is responsible for international marketing.

On Wednesday last week, the Scala University Cinema hosted a Czech-Ukrainian evening to which Masaryk University invited its students, staff and their family members.

A total of 27 new associate professors from six MU faculties who successfully habilitated at Masaryk University received their appointment decrees from Rector Martin Bareš at a ceremony held on Thursday 9 June in the refectory of the Mendel Museum. 

Masaryk University invited Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala to the ceremonial presentation of the fully-functioning Simulation Centre of the MU Faculty of Medicine. The event was held on Monday, 13 June.

The Simulation Centre of the MU Faculty of Medicine is one of Masaryk University’s cutting-edge projects. Future doctors and health care workers use SIMU to practise both common procedures and emergencies.