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• research
• student life
• innovation
• books

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Charles University recently launched its new discovery service, UKAŽ, facilitating the simultaneous and smooth search of printed, digitised and electronic resources. The system was a complete redesign of its forerunner, integrating the catalogues of more than 60 CU libraries. Searching for books has never been more convenient.

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• coronavirus
• Dagmar Dzúrová
• statistics
• geography
• health

• Marcela Uhlíková
• Hynek Glos

As a little girl, she dreamed of working as a veterinarian and animal conservationist in a national park in Africa. Her love of animals led her to study zoogeography. Today, Dagmar Dzúrová teaches about One Health at the Faculty of Science, a transdisciplinary approach to optimal health that recognises balance in nature as crucially important.

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• Milena Králíčková
• 4EU
• elections
• rectress
• Charles University

• Pavla Hubálková
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“The university has been part of my life for more than 30 years,” says Professor Milena Králíčková and “it comes first.”  Králíčková is rectress-elect of Charles University. The physician and scientist in the field of gynaecology and infertility will be the first woman in the history of Charles University to hold the top post.

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• exhibitions
• conference
• Carolinum
• Vienna Circle
• University of Vienna

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This month, Charles University became the first stop for a traveling exhibition about the Vienna Circle from the University of Vienna. The show was accompanied by a conference on the lasting influence of the group – which included philosophers and scientists such as Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath.

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• photos
• Heidelberg
• honoris causa
• virology

• Pavla Hubálková
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"I have always been attracted to science from a medical point of view. The choice of virology was a combination of relevance to human health and the technical possibilities of that time," says Professor Hans-Georg Kraeusslich, explaining why he became a virologist. Professor Kraeusslich was recently honoured by Charles University. 

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• research
• alcoholism
• prevention
• intervention
• Thomas F Babor

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Thomas F. Babor is a renowned researcher and professor of Public Health Studies at the University of Connecticut and author of more than 15 books. In the late 1980s, Prof. Babor was one of the main scientists involved in the creation of AUDIT for WHO. This week he received an honorary degree from Charles University.

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• events
• photos
• Carolinum
• pipe organ
• performance

• Marcela Uhlíková
• Vladimír Šigut

Recent graduates may already have been lucky to hear the newly installed pipe organ at the Carolinum; additional invited guests will have the pleasure on Tuesday, 5 October, at a concert including works by Bach and Mozart. The new pipe organ in the Carolinum’s Great Hall has been described as a “resonant jewel”.

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• students
• innovation
• Kampus Hybernská
• creativity

• Martin Rychlík
• Michal Novotný

“It’s not so much about gaining knowledge. For me it’s mainly about participants outperforming themselves. It’s an experiential course in which students are pushed beyond their comfort zones,” says Jan Veselý. He’s guiding a cohort of creative students – his sixth round already – and “toughening them up.”

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• interviews
• economics
• sustainability
• social anthropology
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a world-renowned anthropologist whose research has taken him around the globe. The author of the seminal Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age was honoured by Charles University this week.

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• coronavirus threat
• interviews
• vaccines
• WIPO Summer School
• IP protection

• Michal Novotný

With vaccines widely available in Europe, it is easy to forget, even just a year-and-a-half later, the urgency with which they were developed. Duncan Matthews, an expert on IP law at Queen Mary University of London, was a key guest at the WIPO Summer School at Charles University. One of his lectures focused on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

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• students
• Videos
• innovation
• Kampus Hybernská
• Marcel Kraus

• Martin Rychlík
• Michal Novotný

“At Kampus Hybernská we are offering all Charles University faculties and components a common space to meet each other as well as city partners or others in the application sphere,” says Marcel Kraus, project manager of Hyb4City since January of this year.

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• education
• volunteering
• DofE
• HRH Prince Philip
• challenge

• Vladimír Šigut

Tomáš Vokáč completed a Ph.D. at Charles University in 2012, focusing on language in modern French theatre. Over the years, he has held top posts in management. He is the executive director of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Czech Republic (DofE).

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• podcast
• Audio
• political science
• creativity
• international relations

• Pavla Hubálková
• Vladimír Šigut

“We both have degrees in international relations and we like to talk about what’s going on in the world, so we decided to record our conversations. Let’s see what’s next door,” is how Barbora Chaloupková and Hana Martínková explain their podcast Za Humny (Not far from home) which examines international relations and public affairs.

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• Videos
• vaccination
• Bulovka University Hospital
• Milan Trojánek
• pandemic year 2

• Marcela Uhlíková
• V. Šigut, M. Pinkas, M. Novotný, interviewee's archive

“My respect for the novel coronavirus grew proportionately the more we learned,” recalls Dr. Milan Trojánek from the Second Faculty of Medicine and Bulovka University Hospital. He admits there were many aspects of the virus that caught the medical profession by surprise.

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• CU sports
• leisure
• travel
• psychology in sport
• Lenka Šulová

• Jiří Novák
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“Is there anything nicer than walking out onto the course at 6 am and taking in the sight of the dew-covered grass?” psychologist Lenka Šulová of the Faculty of Arts wonders. Fifteen years ago she fell in love with golf, a sport she cannot imagine being without in her free time or on travels in Europe and further abroad.

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