The University of Iceland opens its doors to the public Saturday 4 March, between 12 and 4 p.m.
The University of Iceland, the University Bookstore, and the Astronomy web have organised a stargazing session under the guidance of Sævar Helgi Bragason, Astronomy educator, in front of the University of Iceland's Main Building on Friday, 3 March.
A cooperative agreement on student exchange was recently signed with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. The university is placed number nine on the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.
“Universities form an international community of scholars and scientists, dedicated to the search what is true and just, guided by human sanctity- never settling for alternative truths or discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, nationality or origin.”
Over 450 candidates receive their diplomas in both undergraduate and graduate studies from the University of Iceland in Háskólabíó (University Cinema), tomorrow, Saturday 18 February at 1 P.M.
The book The Glaciers of Iceland: A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview by Helgi Björnsson, Glaciologist, has been translated by Júlían D'Arcy, Professor of English Literature at the University of Iceland's School of Humanities, and published by Atlantis Press.
Gróska, (e. Growth), a new house of ideas assigned to be a forum for innovation and university collaboration with industry, will rise on University campus presently as a part of UI's Science Park.
Sölvi Rögnvaldsson, BS student in Applied Mathematics at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Physical Sciences, received the President's Student Innovation Award earlier this week.
Þórhallur Ingi Halldórsson, Professor in nutrition at the University of Iceland, and his colleagues at the University and Matís (Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D), have received a 600 thousand Euros research grant from the European Union.
The United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) is welcoming eighteen fellows, 12 women and six men, during the spring semester of 2017.
