A large number of people visited the Main Building of the University of Iceland today to collect their degree certificates at the University´s third graduation this year. This time, 216 candidates graduated from both undergraduate and graduate studies.
Ryan Eyford, historian of Indigenous and Canadian histories, is the 2025 recipient of the international Vigdís Prize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures.
The primary purpose of the Þórsteinn Fund is to support blind and visually impaired students at the University of Iceland. The Fund's secondary purpose is to support research that will increase knowledge of the lives and circumstances of blind and visually impaired people, especially humanities and social sciences research.
The University of Iceland supports the Women’s Strike and the Rector encourages female and non-binary students and employees to take part.
A symposium was held in Reykjavík in mid-September, organised by the University of Iceland (UI), the National University Hospital of Iceland (Landspítali), and the University of Innsbruck.
The Centre for Arctic Studies offers an exciting course this spring semester open to all master's students in all fields of study.
Rector Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir sent the following message to students and staff at the beginning of the autumn semester: Dear students and colleagues, welcome to a new academic year.
Professor Jón Atli Benediktsson, former Rector of the University of Iceland, was awarded the title of Honorary Senator on 17 October 2025 at the Universität Innsbruck, during the “Dies Academicus” celebration.
UI Scientists, along with their collaborators at NASA, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and computer giant IBM, and other partners, have been awarded a prize by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) this year for developing an open-source AI foundation model in remote sensing.
This annual event brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and community advocates to discuss urgent challenges facing the Arctic region
