Gróska, (e. Growth), a new house of ideas assigned to be a forum for innovation and university collaboration with industry, will rise on University campus presently as a part of UI's Science Park.
Sölvi Rögnvaldsson, BS student in Applied Mathematics at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Physical Sciences, received the President's Student Innovation Award earlier this week.
Þórhallur Ingi Halldórsson, Professor in nutrition at the University of Iceland, and his colleagues at the University and Matís (Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D), have received a 600 thousand Euros research grant from the European Union.
The United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) is welcoming eighteen fellows, 12 women and six men, during the spring semester of 2017.
Over 140 international students began their studies at the University of Iceland this semester, thereof 107 exchange students.
The Royal Gustav Adolf Academy has awarded Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir, Professor in Medieval Icelandic Literature at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, the Dag Strömbäck award.
Sigurður Yngvi Kristinsson, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, has received a 1.5 million Euro grant from the European Research Council for the study iStopMM (Iceland Screens Treats or Prevents Multiple Myeloma).
Bengt Holmström, Professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), receives this year's Nobel prize in economics with Oliver Hart, Professor at Harvard University.
The book Minor Knowledge and Microhistory - Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century was recently published by the distinguished publisher Routlegde.
Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Medicine received a 2 million Euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to fund research on whether traits can possibly explain people's varying reactions to unexpected crises.
