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Aurora is looking for dynamic students

13/10/2021 - 09:13

The Aurora cooperation, of which the University of Iceland is a member, is looking for ambitious students at UI to participate in the network‘s operations through the Aurora Student Champion or Ambassador schemes. By participating students will have an opportunity to influence higher education in the future, enhance their professional skills and participate in international collaboration. 

Aurora is a cooperation between 11 universities across Europe that aims to increase quality and innovation in higher education in response to rapid societal change and strengthen the search for solutions to the biggest challenges facing humanity. To this end, Aurora Universities will create a variety of opportunities for students to gain international experiences as part of their studies and the skills, knowledge and drive to become social entrepreneurs and leaders.

Important to study the women who paved the way

18/03/2021 - 15:47

Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir, professor of theology at the University of Iceland, has her windows open into the past these days as she is peering into the life of a woman who was the first Icelandic female University graduate, not only from one line of study; but two. 

The woman Arnfríður's study focuses on is Steinunn Jóhannesdóttir, later Hayes (1870-1960).  She completed her university studies in both theology and medicine almost 120 years ago. Steinunn moved to the United States towards the end of the nineteenth century where she got a university education.  After that she moved with her husband to China where she worked as a medical missionary doctor for four decades.   

"The spark for the study lies in an interest to search for the missing women in Icelandic history, especially those connected with the history of the church and Christianity in an Icelandic context," says Arnfríður. 

Doctoral defence in Physics - Lukas Schneiderbauer

25. September 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00

Veröld - Hús Vigdísar

Room 023

The defence will be streamed: https://www.youtube.com/user/HIvarp/live

Ph.D. student: Lukas Schneiderbauer

Dissertation title: Semi-Classical Black Hole Holography 

Opponents: Dr. Veronika Hubeny, Professor of Physics at UC Davis,USA
Dr. Mukund Rangamany, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, USA

Advisor: Dr. Lárus Thorlacius, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland

Doctoral committee: Dr. Bo Sundborg, Professor at the Department of Physics at Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland
Dr. Þórður Jónsson, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland

Doctoral defence in Physics - Lukas Schneiderbauer

25. September 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00

Veröld - Hús Vigdísar

Room 023

Ph.D. student: Lukas Schneiderbauer

Dissertation title: Semi-Classical Black Hole Holography 

Opponents: Dr. Veronika Hubeny, Professor of Physics at UC Davis,USA
Dr. Mukund Rangamany, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, USA

Advisor: Dr. Lárus Thorlacius, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland

Doctoral committee: Dr. Bo Sundborg, Professor at the Department of Physics at Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland
Dr. Þórður Jónsson, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland

Chair of Ceremony: Dr. Einar Örn Sveinbjörnsson, Professor and the Head of the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland

Overwhelming response to educational material on COVID-19 for children

30/03/2020 - 16:34

Scientists and students at the University of Iceland have been contributing in various ways during this enormous social upheaval caused by the COVID-19 epidemic and the recent assembly ban in Iceland. Among them is Guðlaug Marion Mitchinson, a PhD student in psychology at the University of Iceland, who has used her specialist knowledge to translate and adapt educational material about the virus for children. The material has spread through the community like the virus itself and has attracted significant attention from the media.

Populism and Polish politics

28. May 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00

Oddi

101

On Tuesday the 28th of May Mikolaj Cześnik will give his talk 'Politics for stupid people? Political knowledge, socioeconomic status and populist attitudes in Poland‘, at the University of Iceland, room O-101, 12:00-13:00.

The meeting is organized by the Icelandic Political Science Association and the Institute for Public Administration and Politics and the University of Iceland.

 

The threat of Climate change not convincing enough

29/09/2015 - 08:00

To get the public behind actions to alleviate the impact of climate change, it might be a reasonable approach to point out added benefits of behaviour change. Pointing out the extent of the problem does not suffice to convince people on the necessity of action. These are the findings of a multinational team of environmental- and social psychologists published today in the prestigious academic journal Nature: Climate Change.

Children of multicultural ethnicity often perpetrators or victims of bullying

Children of multicultural ethnicity are less likely to experience positive connections with their friends and acquaintances than children born in Iceland. Furthermore, they have more difficulties in finding domestic friends, even when they have mastered the new language. At the same time it has been acknowledged that friends can play a key role in the lives of this group when parents have meagre means to support their children when moving between countries,” says Eyrún María Rúnarsdóttir, Sessional Teacher at the Faculty of Education Studies. She is a doctoral student at the Leiden University in the Netherlands but gathers data for her research entirely in Iceland.

Gendered love

“It seems that we avoid writing about or discussing love, regardless whether it is in connection with science or a casual chat around the kitchen table,“ says Halldóra Gunnarsdóttir, MA in Gender Studies, with a smile on her face during the presentation of her MA thesis “Gendered love – do women and men love in a different manner?” She stands in podium and discusses love, which she finds utterly fascinating. Gunnarsdóttir talks about having been in love frequently; but most of all with her husband, she adds with a big smile. In front of her sits a large audience of interested individuals who have no doubt also been in love. The research topic concerns everyone, both young and old.

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