Eight new heads of faculty took office at the University of Iceland on 1 July. They work in four University schools.
Do you have an idea of how to reduce food waste or combat climate change? Do you want to develop ways to increase opportunities for marginalised groups to fully participate in society? Now is the time to turn such ideas into action!
The book Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era, edited by Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, History, and Archaeology at the University of Iceland, was recently published.
Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir, professor of epidemiology at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Medicine, has been appointed as the new Dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Iceland from 1 July.
Girls who code (Stelpur forrita) is a summer workshop designed to increase interest in and improve the gender balance in computer science and software engineering and to reduce dropout rate of female and genderqueer students currently enrolled in the subjects.
At the end of May, the Aurora community gathered in the historic city of Naples for the Aurora Spring Biannual, hosted by the University Federico II of Naples (UNINA).
Three University students in undergraduate studies are leaving for California in the next few days for a ten week project this summer at the California Institute of Technology - Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Four students from the University of Iceland will be studying this summer at Stanford University in California, as part of the so-called Stanford Summer International Honors Programme (SSIHP).
Academic staff from the Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, visited the BioMedical Center (BMC), University of Iceland during 21-24 of May by a support from the EEA grants.
Twenty-five students from various countries took part in an on location course at the UI Institute of Regional Research Centres in Húsavík, and The University Centre of the West Fjords on methods for research on marine mammals at the end of May.
