The first Icelandic business accelerator for social innovation was launched recently and is now open for applications. The University of Iceland is party to the project.
Registration for the conference “Remember the Fall?” has started. The conference will be held on 6 October, 2018 at the University of Iceland.
The startup company Akthelia Pharmaceuticals, founded on the basis of research conducted by scientists at the University of Iceland and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, was one of 11 companies presented at the Science 2 Startup symposium in the United States on 24 April.
Bergþór Traustason, BS student in engineering physics from the University of Iceland, has been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholar and will begin his studies in biotechnology this autumn.
The University of Iceland is preparing to offer Hindi as a part of their curricula in the academic year 2018-2019, according to a letter of intent signed by Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector at the University of Iceland, and Rajiv K. Nagpal, India's ambassador in Iceland.
Dr. Lára Jóhanssdóttir, Associate Professor in the programme for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Business Administration, has been chosen as an Arctic Initiative Scholar 2018-2019.
Following a report by an independent investigative committee on the plastic trachea case, the University of Iceland has sought to analyse the accountability of the institution and its employees.
The final volume in a series on Snorri Sturluson has been published by the Icelandic History Institute and Museum Tusculanum Press in Copenhagen.
Three scientists at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland and their Nordic partners have received a grant of 120 million Kronur from Nordforsk.
A new and improved English website for the University of Iceland, english.hi.is, was launched today Friday, 23 March.
