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). The summer programme is eight weeks long and allows students to experience the unique academic and scientific community of Stanford. Participants get the summer programme accredited as part of their studies at the University of Iceland.
The four students heading to Stanford are: Klara Margrét Ívarsdóttir, medicine; Ragna María Sverrisdóttir, mathematics; Sólveig Liv Jónsdóttir, mechanical engineering, and Tanja Rut Rúnarsdóttir, applied mathematics. They will attend lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship and pay a visit to the nearby Silicon Valley.
Stanford is among the world's leading universities and has collaborated with the University of Iceland on summer studies since 2010. A large group of students from various disciplines at the University of Iceland have taken advantage of this unique opportunity to study at one of the world’s top universities over the past fifteen years.
One of them is Ómar Ingi Halldórsson, who went there in the summer of 2023. The courses he took at Stanford proved extremely useful when he later participated in the innovation competition Gulleggið, a competition for entrepreneurs, earlier this year. Asked about his experience Ómar says: “I took two courses at Stanford. In hindsight, I chose very interesting and practical ones; machine learning and a course in innovation and entrepreneurship.“ Ómar is currently working on the innovation project SagaReg.