Almost three thousand participants took part in Menntakvika last 1 and 2 October.
Noir in the North - Genre, Politics and Place has been published by Bloomsbury Academic. The book is edited by Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttur, professor in literature at the University of Iceland Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies.
The position of dean of the University of Iceland School of Humanities was recently advertised with a deadline of 30 September. A total of six applications were submitted, but one applicant withdrew their application.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, sent the following message to University staff and students today (2 October 2020).
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, sent the following message to University staff and students today (2 October 2020)
The latest research from the field of education in Iceland will be presented at Menntakvika, the annual conference of the School of Education at the University of Iceland. The conference will be held online on the 1st and 2nd of October.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, rector of the University of Iceland and professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) award for his contribution to education in remote sensing.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, sent the following message to University staff and students today (25 September 2020).
Two of the visiting professors at the University of Iceland Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jocelyn Chanussot and Ian F. Akyildiz, are ranked on the Clarivate Analytics list of the most influential researchers in the world.
A group of scientists in the fields of synthetic and systemic biology, among them a team from the University of Iceland, have discovered a gene group in phytoplankton that can be used to create novel and environmentally friendly ways to combat marine biofouling.