The third award ceremony for the Aurora Diversity and Equality Award will be held in Amsterdam at the end of October. The objective of the award is to identify and exchange good practices that are being practised within the Aurora network which the University of Iceland is a part of.
Nine in ten graduated university students believe that knowledge and experience acquired in their Erasmus+ exchange programmes are useful in their current work.
The Rector of the University of Iceland discussed the importance of knowledge creation and innovation in his address to over two thousand new graduates in Laugardalshöll on Saturday.
Over 2,000 receive their diplomas in both undergraduate- and graduate studies from the University of Iceland tomorrow, Saturday 22 June in Laugardalshöll.
Three of the British Isles’ most renowned poets are visiting Iceland this June, and the Institute for literature and art at the University of Iceland is involved in two great cultural events where they participate.
Five students at the University of Iceland will study at the Columbia University in the city of New York.
The University of Iceland is among the 25 universities at the forefront internationally in collaboration with industry and international universities worldwide, according to a new evaluation from U-Multirank, an independent ranking body.
Toshizo Watanabe, founder of the Watanabe Trust Fund at the University of Iceland, was awarded the Icelandic Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, at a formal ceremony at Bessastaðir on 22 May.
Twelve University students will study at Stanford University in the United States this summer in a so-called Stanford Summer International Honors Program (SSIHP).
A summit, or rather a nunatak (a rocky summit rising above a glacier) was recently named for Guðfinna Th. Aðalgeirsdóttir, Professor of glaciology at the University of Iceland.
