List of articles from archive in month: May 2010

Conference "Academic Lessons for Economic Policy”

The “Academic Lessons for Economic Policy” conference took place on May 12 in the building of the Institute of Economic Studies in Opletalova Street in Prague. Attracting great interest from students, experts and the general public, the conference also celebrated the 20^th anniversary of the Faculty of Social Sciences and 20 years of state-independent economics in the Czech Republic.

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13 May 2010

A Survey Shows That People Do Not Know What Smokers Die Of

Over two thirds of people in the Czech Republic do not know what the most frequent cause of death related to smoking. It has been shown by a survey, which was conducted in March by 5^th year students of the Charles University 1^st Faculty of Medicine. Around 18,000 Czechs die of smoking-related causes every year.

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5 May 2010

Jana Poltierová Vejpravová Received the Scopus Award

On April 27, 2010, RNDr. Jana Poltierová Vejpravová, Ph.D., received the prestigious Scopus Award for young scientists for her work which is a major contribution to experimental and theoretical description of spin states in solid-state matters. The awards were handed out for the first time in the Czech Republic by the largest publisher of scientific journals and databases, Elsevier Science.

Photo: Marie Čechová

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3 May 2010