At the meeting of the Scientific Board of the University of South Bohemia on March 16, 2016, the Rector, prof. Libor Grubhoffer, awarded three authors with the Rector's Award for prestigious scientific publication for the year 2015.
The Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters of the USB signed an agreement to create a joint laboratory with the Research Institute of Fisheries river Yangtze Chinese fishing Academy of Sciences. The contract for the FFPW USB signed the dean Prof. Dipl. - Ing. Otomar Linhart, D.Sc.
On Thursday, March 3, 2016, the Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, elected the candidate for Rector for the period 2016-2020. Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Machula, currently holding the post of the Dean of the Faculty of Theology at USB, has become the new Rector of the university.
On Saturday, February 27, 2016 the University of South Bohemia organized an entertaining day with science.
On a proposal from the College of Science and College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, University of Arizona was prof. Libor Grubhoffer awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science for his lifelong inspiring research in natural sciences, the improvement of the infrastructure needed for science and research and development of new curricula not only for Czech students.
On February 22, 2016, the election committee of the Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia announced the names of the candidates who had accepted the candidacy in the fourth election for the post of the Rector of JU for the period 2016-2020.
The Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice on Monday, February 8, 2016 at its meeting elected the Rector for the term 2016-2020.
The University of South Bohemia organised the third “International Week”, which took place at the beginning of the Advent period from 30th November to 4th December 2015. This year, the International Week was dedicated to the 750th Jubilee Year of the foundation of the city of České Budějovice.
On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 the Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice at its meeting elected a candidate for the Rector of USB for the term in office 2016-2020. The Academic Senate voted for two candidates, who were the current Rector of USB Prof. Libor Grubhoffer and the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture Prof. Miloslav Šoch. The electing a candidate for the Rector was conducted by secret balloting, no candidate received the necessary support in all the three rounds, i.e. at least 21 votes out of 40 senators. Thus the Rector for the term 2016-2020 has not been elected so far.
On 13 November 2015, the Election Commission of the Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia published the names of candidates for the post of the rector of the University of South Bohemia in České Budejovice for the period from 2016 to 2020.