Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir formally received the Rector's Chain of Office, the symbol of the office of rector, from the outgoing Rector, Professor Jón Atli Benediktsson of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who has served in the role for the past ten years.
The artist, peace activist, and friend of Iceland, Yoko Ono, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at the University of Iceland’s School of Humanities, in recognition of her contributions to artistic creation and the cause of peace.
Sesselja Picchietti, physics student, and Sigríður Bára Min Karlsdóttir, student in biochemistry and molecular biology, are headed for the United States this summer for a ten-week research project at one of the most prestigious research universities in the world, Caltech - California Institute of Technology.
Four students from the University of Iceland will be studying this summer at Stanford University in California, as part of the Stanford Summer International Honours Program (SSIHP).
Four friends from secondary school, now studying at the University of Iceland and the Iceland University of the Arts, have joined forces to develop a game-based app aimed at speeding up the diagnosis of dementia.
Liður í sjálfbærnistefnu skólans er innleiðing á skráningu og gjaldtöku af ökutækjum þeirra sem nýta bílastæði skólans en breytingin tekur gildi 18. ágúst næstkomandi.
Due to the relocation of the server room of the University of Iceland’s Division of IT, part of the university's computer services will be temporarily inaccessible the weekend of 27-29 June.
The University of Iceland holds its place among the 201 - 300 top in the world for societal and economic impact based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in accordance with a list published by Times Higher Education. A record number of universities were ranked this year, or 2,500 in 130 countries.
The University of Iceland now offers a new open online course on the edX platform focusing on the pressing challenges facing the Arctic in times of rapid change.
Almost 2,800 candidates will graduate with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Iceland on Saturday, 14 June. This is Jón Atli Benediktsson's last graduation ceremony as rector of the University of Iceland.
