At 9 am this morning, 4,813 people had voted in the rectorial election at the University of Iceland.
Today, the inauguration of the last ramp in the Ramp Up Iceland project was celebrated in front of the Main Building of the University of Iceland.
The 2025 election for rector of the University of Iceland will be held online. Voting will start at 9 am on 18 March and finish at 5 pm on 19 March. The election will be held in Ugla, the UI intranet.
The Rector has decided, in consultation with the President of the Faculty of Humanities, that Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, former President of Iceland and Professor of History at the University of Iceland, will become the Jón Sigurðsson Professor at the University of Iceland from 1 July.
The Agricultural University of Iceland and the University of Iceland have joined forces with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation to offer a master's programme in sustainable agriculture and regional development starting next autumn.
The scientists from 11 institutions in 7 countries across Europe will connect sophisticated climate and ice flow models with field and satellite data to improve our understanding of the impact of climate change on land ice in the North Atlantic region.
The University of Iceland calls for original and innovative ideas among University students and staff that may contribute to society or industry for the annual Science and Innovation Award.
“In the past decade, a new approach to blue-green stormwater solutions has been gaining momentum – one based on using water as a resource where it falls rather than disposing of it,” says Hrund Ólöf Andradóttir, professor at the faculty of Civil and Engineering. She is leading a study on the multifaceted benefits of blue-green infrastructure in the city.
Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, assistant professor at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland, who is participating in an international research project analysing emotional expression in the poems of the Icelandic sagas.
“Fertility of immigrants in Iceland hasn’t been researched before,” says Ari Klængur Jónsson, a project manager and researcher at UI. He is currently looking at the fertility rate of Polish immigrants as part of a larger project exploring fertility and childbearing intentions in Iceland from several perspectives.
