All of Iceland watched as Elísabet Margeirsdóttir completed the Ultra Gobi, a 400-kilometer run through China’s Gobi Desert recently.
Borders have a vast impact on young people fleeing arduous situations, seeking new opportunities and respect for their rights. They are forced to flee, exposing them to sexual and gender based violence, abduction, exploitation, forced recruitment, and detention.
"When Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was elected president he made me promise that I and his colleagues in the project "The Economic Crisis, Remember" ( „Hrunið, þið munið“ ) would organize a conference on the 10 year anniversary of the economic collapse in Iceland.
Equality Days in Icelandic universities take place this week, 1 - 5 October.
The University of Iceland's TV series, Treasure for the Future (Fjársjóður framtíðar), received the Icelandic Centre for Research Communication Award at the Researchers' Night last Friday.
The European Researchers' Night takes place on Friday 28 September between 4.30 and 10 P.M.
The University of Iceland is for the eighth year running on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings list over the best universities worldwide, now ranked in place 250-300.
Roberta Rudnick, President of the Geochemical Society, presented Sigurður Reynir Gíslason, a research scientist at the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences, with the Clair C. Patterson award last August.
Team Spark, a group of students from the University of Iceland’s Faculties of Engineering, recently came back from Barcelona after a rewarding participation in the international competition for university students to design, build and market a racing car.
A research team at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Business Administration recently received recognition for their contribution to the annual conference Academy of Management (AOM).
