This summer, the University of Iceland will offer an English course for refugees planning to pursue higher education in Iceland. The course, which is free, is one of the measures that the University has taken in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
13 undergraduate students at the University of Iceland are heading to the United States this summer to study and work on research projects at top ranking universities.
Ólafur Ingólfsson, professor emeritus in the Faculty of Earth Sciences received the Nordic Geoscientist Award at the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting on the 12th of May.
Qiong Wang, student at the University of Iceland Faculty of Medicine, was the thousandth doctoral student to defend her thesis at the university from its foundation in 1911.
On May 11-12, the Aurora Spring Biannual Conference was held in Innsbruck, Austria, with a record number of participants.
Twenty-three specialists from 15 different countries graduated from the GRÓ GEST Programme at the University of Iceland with a ceremony in the Aula on Friday, the fourteenth class to do so.
Two chemistry students at the University of Iceland, Hafdís Haraldsdóttir and Sólrún Elín Freygarðsdóttir, have been selected to take part in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
The non-profit organisation Education in a Suitcase, which is centred around a teaching system developed by scientists at the University of Iceland, last week received a grant of ISK 5 million from Kristján Gíslason of the Sliding Through Foundation.
Representatives from the University in Coimbra, Portugal visited the University of Iceland 3 - 4 May. The visit is part of Gender@UC the university collaboration in the field of gender equality.
Winners of the Science and Innovation Prizes 2022 were announced today.
