Jack Armitage, musician and researcher at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, University of Iceland, receives two awards from the newly launched Iceland Music Fund.
Þorsteinn Elí Gíslason, computational engineering student at the University of Iceland, has recently been involved in an extensive and highly complex collaboration between NASA, the University of Iceland, JSC (the Jülich Supercomputing Centre) and the tech giant IBM.
It has been announced that the project Intelligent Instruments will receive two awards, both of which will be presented at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz in September.
A special language committee has been in place at the University of Iceland since 2016. The language committee answers to the University Rector and is composed of representatives from all University Schools, Central administration, a student representative, as well as the committee chair appointed by the Rector.
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).
