With deep sorrow, we announce the passing of our dear colleague, teacher, and friend, Professor Jaroslav Brůžek, who died on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, after a serious illness. A respected anthropologist and long-time member of the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, he will be remembered not only for his scientific contributions but also for his warmth, generosity, and wit.

At this year’s 57th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), held in the United Arab Emirates with a record participation of 90 countries and 354 contestants, the Czech team achieved extraordinary success. The representatives brought home one gold, two silver, and one bronze medal from this prestigious competition—marking the best result in the history of the IChO for the independent Czech Republic. Our faculty once again took part in the preparation of the national team, hosting an intensive practical training camp at the Department of Analytical Chemistry. Shortly before their departure, the students also participated in a joint training camp for the Chemistry and Biology Olympiads in Běstvina, organized in collaboration between the University of Chemistry and Technology and our faculty.

At the end of June 2025, a group of philosophers and historians from the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, visited the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology for the third time. Six academics and two students took part in a workshop entitled Creative Cities: Knowledge of Nature and Networks of Cities, where they presented the results of their research in the fields of the history of philosophy, natural sciences, and medicine together with their Oxford colleagues.

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalina, our esteemed colleague and dear friend. Tomáš served as the head of the Phycology Research Group in Prague, where he devoted his life to the study of algae and inspired generations of students and researchers.

The Nostitz Palace hosted the ceremonial awarding of certificates for inscription into the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register. Included were the cartographic documents of P. J. Šafařík, housed in the Map Collection of the Faculty of Science at Charles University. The faculty can now proudly boast a second entry in this prestigious international list – in 2017, it succeeded with the nomination of Camocio’s maps of the Siege of Malta. The certificate was presented by Deputy Minister of Culture Mgr. Milan Němeček and received by the Dean of our Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Vladimír Krylov, Vice-Dean for the Geography Section Assoc. Prof. Luděk Šídlo, and Mgr. Mirka Tröglová Sejtková, who represented the Map Collection.

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