New research conducted by an international team of geologists, including scientists at the University of Iceland, sheds light on how earthquakes, rifting, and volcanic eruptions interact at the tectonic plate-boundary in Iceland.
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.
A group of students at the University of Iceland is currently developing products made from a highly unconventional material: spider silk. The research team, called ARAXNI, says the silk could replace, e.g., various plastics used in Iceland’s fishing and textile industries.
Freyja Hreinsdóttir, professor of mathematics and mathematics teaching at the Faculty of Subject Teacher Education, has been appointed as Dean of the School of Education for the next five years.
In a collaborative interdisciplinary effort between the University of Akureyri’s Polar Law Programme and the University of Iceland's Research Centre in Þingeyjarsveit, thirty international master students visited the Research Centre’s headquarters in Gígur, Þingeyjarsveit.
GRÓ GEST celebrated the graduation of its 18th cohort of gender equality professionals in the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Iceland on 21 May 2026.
A new article in the high-impact journal Nature Review Psychology calls for a fundamental change in how we should think about perception and cognition — and how scientists should research these processes.
In recent years, leading scholars worldwide have focused on one key question: How can knowledge offer real value to society and industry? International scholars discuss the interplay of universities, industry and innovation at UI.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Iceland, Landspítali University Hospital and the University of Oslo have conducted a study that improves our understanding of how cancer cells avoid being killed by immune cells.
Over 30 grants were awarded to doctoral students across all five schools of the University of Iceland this academic year.
