Rector Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir sent the following message to students and staff at the beginning of the autumn semester: Dear students and colleagues, welcome to a new academic year.
The board of the Þórsteinn’s Fund calls for grant applications. The primary purpose of the Þórsteinn’s Fund is to support blind and visually impaired students at the University of Iceland.
The University of Iceland will launch its new website on Monday, 14 September. The University's websites attract a large number of visitors and contain one of the most extensive collections of online content in Iceland.
Örn Guðmundsson has been appointed Director of Finance and Operations at the University of Iceland.
GRÓ GEST will launch its new global online course, Ending Violence through Human Rights Advocacy, on 10 August 2026 at 8:00 EAT.
Two new school deans and 12 faculty heads took office at UI on 1 July, the same day that the University of Iceland University Consortium became a reality, officially establishing the University of Iceland at Hólar as an affiliated institution made up of three faculties.
Seven grants have been awarded from the Eggert Fund at UI to support a range of research in the earth and life sciences. The grants, amounting to a total sum of ISK 7 million, were presented at a formal event in the UI Ceremonial Hall.
The Rector of the University of Iceland, Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir, delivered an address at the graduation ceremony on June 13.
Over 200 schoolchildren aged 12–14 will take part in the annual University of Youth, held at the University of Iceland.
Nine University of Iceland students will spend eight weeks this summer at the renowned Stanford University in California, participating in their International Honors Program (IHP).
Over 30 grants were awarded to doctoral students across all five schools of the University of Iceland this academic year.
Over 100 students and staff braved the weather and took part in the University Run on Tuesday, 14 April.
Rector Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir sent the following message to students and staff today: "An orange weather alert has been issued for the Reykjavík area from 7 am to 1 pm tomorrow (Thursday). South-easterly gales and blizzards are forecast, expected to cause dangerous driving conditions and travel disruptions."
The University of Iceland will be graduating 445 candidates from undergraduate and graduate programmes on Friday, February 20, at a festive graduation ceremony in the University Cinema at 3 p.m.
Researchers at the University of Iceland are involved in four Nordic research infrastructure hubs that recently received funding from the Nordic institution NordForsk.
The UI Centre for Artificial Intelligence was formally opened today, intended to serve as a multidisciplinary forum for collaboration in research and development in the field of artificial intelligence and data science and a platform to share information with the public.
A large number of people visited the Main Building of the University of Iceland today to collect their degree certificates at the University´s third graduation this year. This time, 216 candidates graduated from both undergraduate and graduate studies.
Ragna Benedikta Garðarsdóttir, Professor at the faculty of psychology and Rögnvaldur Jóhann Sæmundsson, Professor at the faculty of industrial engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science, have been appointed Pro-Rectors at the University of Iceland.
Rector Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir sent the following message to students and staff at the beginning of the autumn semester: Dear students and colleagues, welcome to a new academic year.
The annual Ceremony for Doctoral Graduates was held for the thirteenth time today in the UI Ceremonial Hall, where 73 doctoral graduates who have completed their degrees at the university in the past twelve months were honoured with the university's gold medal.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, discussed the urgent problem of funding in the higher education sector in his speech today at the graduation ceremony for 505 candidates.
Oktoberfest takes place 1 - 3 September this year in Vatnsmýrin; just like before the pandemic.