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.
Irma Erlingsdóttir is among the world's 100 most influential people in gender policy 2019, according to a new list from Apolitical, a peer-to-peer learning and policy platform for governments and other public bodies.
Two undergraduate students at the University of Iceland received the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu scholarship for a 10 week project this summer at California Institute of Technology - Caltech in Pasadena, California.
14 students and researchers at the University of Iceland are heading to Japan for study and research work and 10 students and researchers from Japanese universities are coming to Iceland for the same purpose.
This is the twelfth cohort graduated from the UNU-GEST programme and a total of 132 students have graduated from the programme since its establishment in 2009.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, rector of the University of Iceland, visited the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) recently.