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WERA-IRN Extended Education Conference

23. September 2021 - 9:00 to 25. September 2021 - 17:00

Online

WERA-IRN Extended Education Conference Reykjavík 2021 will take place on 23-25 September.

The conference is virtual.

Conference theme

Extended Education in Thriving Communities: Towards a sustainable future.

Aim of the conference

To explore the multiple ways in which extended education programs, research and theories help communities and individuals prepare for a sustainable future, a future that involves educating responsible and active citizens. 

Broad scope

Around 90 presentations from diverse professionals around the world and keynote talks from established scholars from the US, Iceland, Finland and India. 

Find all the information here. 

Graduate Diploma in Arctic Studies: Online Information Session

2. June 2021 - 14:00 to 14:30

Zoom

Want to find out more about the Faculty of Political Science's latest program, ask questions, and meet other potential students from Iceland and abroad?

 

Please join us at 14:00 on June 2 for a 10 minute presentation by Dr Page Wilson, followed by a 10 minute presentation about the student experience at HI from PhD candidate Gudbjorg Rikey Th.Hauksdottir.

  

We look forward to seeing you there!

  

The Zoom link is HERE

Brain Oub Quiz

13. March 2019 - 17:00 to 19:00

Háskólatorg

Stundent Cellar

Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. The Department of Psychology at the University of Iceland will therefore host a Brain Pub Quiz on Wednesday, March 13th!

Come and get to know more about the brain and/or show off your existing knowledge. The Pub Quiz starts at 5 pm and four people will form a team (we can help you find teammates, if needed). The winning team will get a 10.000 kr gift card at Stúdentakjallarinn.

All are welcome!

About the Studies

The faculty offers a research based Ph.D. programme. The programme is based on one year of course work and a research project conducted under the guidance and in cooperation with a faculty advisor, according the University's regulations for Ph.D. degrees. There is a strong emphasis on publication of research findings in internationally recognized research journals.

Research within the department falls into the following categories:

Food Chemistry

Food Processing

Food Engineering

Food Microbiology

Food Safety

Biotechnology

Product Development

Main focus is on:

Production/Engineering
Quality and Safety
Innovation
Biotechnology

Student Research Projects

Diverse research is conducted at the Faculty of Medicine. New discoveries are made providing new knowledge which in turn improves quality of life. Scientists at the Faculty conduct research in cooperation with researchers and institutions both here and abroad and often publish their research findings in internationally acclaimed academic journals. Supervising students on their research projects is a part of their job, and these projects can be found online: BS and MS projects are stored in Skemman and PhD projects in Opin Vísindi.

Green lifestyle

University of Iceland (UI) is a community of staff and students and one of the largest workplaces in Iceland. UI is in a good position to have a positive impact on society. The environmental effects of operating a large institution like UI are considerable. UI aims to contribute to minimizing the negative impacts of its operations, and sustainability and diversity is one of four main priorities of UI's main strategy, UI26. 

Below are some suggestions on how you can promote a green lifestyle.

Sharing increases scientific impact

27/11/2021 - 12:32

"I do not distribute material on social media for my own personal gain. It is not a question of what I may gain from it but what I give to society. I believe that academics are obligated to share." 

This is the opinion of Inga Minelgaité, professor at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Business Administration.  She is known for sharing material on Linkedin and other known web media platforms associated with her prolific academic work.  

Linkedin is one of the most interesting social media platforms in the world for career networking as over 774 million users are registered on it in over two hundred countries. One of the emphasis in the new Strategy of the University of Iceland is to increase faith in science and make its impact better known to the public, especially by increasing the ways academics can speak directly among themselves and to our community. 

Housing

The University of Iceland does not provide or guarantee housing for students. The supply of on-campus housing is limited and students often live off-campus. Reykjavík is an expensive city and monthly rent for an individual is typically from 100,000 ISK (approx 725 EUR) and up. 

Introductions to graduate studies at UI 20-24 March

20/03/2023 - 09:51

The week of 20-24 March will be dedicated to graduate studies at the University of Iceland, with introductory meetings and taster sessions from selected graduate programmes. All available graduate programmes will also be presented at a special lunchtime event on 21 March.

If you have a BA in anthropology, can you do a graduate degree in speech pathology? If you have a BS in nursing, can you do a graduate degree in theology? If you have a BS in computer science, can you do a graduate degree in preschool teacher education? What are the admissions requirements for all graduate programmes at the University of Iceland?

BMC Seminar - The effect of rare sequence variants on hematological QTL

15. April 2021 - 12:00 to 13:00

BMC Seminar Thursday 15 April, 12:00

Speaker: Guðjón Reykdal Óskarsson, doctoral student at DeCODE genetics

Title: Assessing the effect of rare sequence variants in genome-wide association studies of quantitative hematological traits

Zoom link

Abstract: Mutations leading to severe phenotypes or having large effects on quantitative traits are more likely to be rare due to negative selection. Also, sequence variants with large phenotypic effect sizes are enriched within a coding sequence of the genome. Studying these rare sequence variants therefore increases the probability of finding variants that give insight in to physiology and pathways involved in the functional role of a gene on a disease or traits.

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