26 May 2011

Charles University Rector awards Rector’s Cup to University Marathon winners

May 26, 2011, By: Lucie Kettnerová, Section: i-Forum informs, Translation: Pavla Horáková

Five Rector’s Awards for the Charles University’s best academic publications, textbooks and lecture notes of the year were handed out at today’s session of the Charles University Academic Council. The Charles University Rector also awarded the university’s memorial medals to two outstanding personalities – the immunologist Prof. MUDr. Terezie Fučíková, Dr.Sc., and historian Prof. PhDr. Ivan Hlaváček, CSc.

The Rector’s Award for best academic publications, textbooks and lecture notes of the year is awarded annually to individual authors or teams for their academic publications, textbooks and lecture notes published in the previous year. Nominations are submitted by faculty deans or directors of Charles University departments to the Charles University Prorector for Scientific and Creative Activity after they have been discussed by the faculty’s or department’s editorial committee. The award is accompanied by a prize of CZK 2,000 –10,000.

This year’s winners are:

- in social sciences:

Mgr. Jana Hubková, Ph.D.

– Fridrich Falcký v zrcadle letákové publicistiky. Leták jako pramen k vývoji a vnímání české otázky v letech 1619–1632 (Frederick I., King of Bohemia, as reflected in pamphlets. The pamphlet as a source concerning the development and perception of the Czech question in 1619–1632)

Published by Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Prague and Togga

- in medicine and pharmacy:

Prof. MUDr. Radana Königová, CSc.; MUDr. Josef Bláha, et al.

– Komplexní léčba popáleninového traumata (Comprehensive treatment of burns trauma)

Published by Karolinum

- in natural sciences and mathematics and physics

Prof. RNDr. Ladislav Kvasz, Dr.

– Patterns of Change: Linguistic Innovations in the Development of Classical Mathematics

Published by Birkhäuser Basel

- in didactic and pedagogical science

PhDr. Dana Kasperová, Ph.D.

– Výchova a vzdělávání židovských dětí v protektorátu a v ghettu Terezín (The education and upbringing of Jewish children in the Protectorate and the Theresienstadt ghetto)

Published by Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Prague

(Prof. Petráň’s wife accepted the prize on his behalf)

– for the promotion of Charles University and its parts:

Prof. PhDr. Josef Petráň, CSc.

– Karolinum

Published by Karolinum

	On the proposal from the Charles University First Faculty of Medicine, Prof. MUDr. Terezie Fučíková, DrSc., from the Institute of Immunology and Microbiology of the First Faculty of Medicine and the General Teaching Hospital was awarded the Charles University Memorial Medal
	On the proposal from the Charles University Faculty of Arts, Prof. PhDr. Ivan Hlaváček, CSc., from the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies of the Charles University Faculty of Arts was awarded the Charles University Memorial Medal