Over 50 international employees at collaborative universities all over the world attend staff days at the University of Iceland this week.
The University of Iceland's concert committee organises concerts at noon during the academic year 2018-2019 and is calling for potential performers. The concerts take place in University buildings.
Research scientists are often driven by a curiosity that can never be sated. New discoveries create new questions in the perpetual search for knowledge. The focus is on just that in the new series of Treasure for the future.
Þorgerður J. Einarsdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, and her international partners have received a grant of over 365 million Ikr from Horizon 2020, the largest EU research and innovation programme.
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.
