Iceland's representatives in the European contest for young scientists to be held in Brussels this autumn are Lilja Ýr Guðmundsdóttir and Ingibjörg Sóley Einarsdóttir, both students at Reykjavík's upper secondary school.
Concerts, micro courses, dance, walks and introduction of the UI support services are part of an interesting programme offered to welcome new students to the University of Iceland.
The University of Iceland welcomes our international students by organising an orientation week at the beginning of the autumn semester.
The book Economic Crisis and Mass Protest: The Pots and Pans Revolution by Jón Gunnar Bernburg, Professor of Sociology at the University of Iceland's School of Social Sciences.
Professor Gunnar Stefánsson, and Anna Helga Jónsdóttir, Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of Physical Sciences took Tutor-web, an open learning system to Kenya this summer.
The topic of this three-day history conference will be Nordic Labour, broadly defined, including the history of work, history of workers and the history of labour movements.
Three undergraduate students at the University of Iceland received a scholarship for a 10 week project at California Institute of Technology this summer; Caltech in Pasadena, California.
"It is, in my opinion, our social duty to try to ensure that as many as possible get to enjoy the lasting wealth our educational institutes possess, independent of means, gender or origin."
A total of 2108 candidates receive their diplomas in both undergraduate and graduate studies from the University of Iceland in Laugardalshöll, on Saturday 25 June.
The next NonfictioNOW conference will be held in Reykjavík from 2–4 June 2017, hosted by the University of Iceland.
