The University of Iceland (Icelandic: Háskóli Íslands) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country’s oldest and largest institution of higher education.

Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants’ school to a modern comprehensive university, providing instruction for about 14,000 students in twenty-five faculties. Teaching and research is conducted within social sciences, humanities, medicine, natural sciences, engineering and teacher education. It has a campus concentrated around Suðurgata street in central Reykjavík, with additional facilities located in nearby areas as well as in the countryside.

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December 8, 2016 - Suspicions that this close kinship played some role in their kids' problems led the two families to this clinic at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) and into the care of Fowzan Alkuraya, a young Saudi geneticist who had ...

December 7, 2016 - On September 28, 2016 Russia's Far Eastern Federal University and the Harbin Institute of Technology in China announced the launch of the Russian-Chinese Polar Engineering and Research Center. The new center will “engage in studies intended to promote ...

December 7, 2016 - Scientists at the University of Iceland's Research Center in South Iceland have finally unveiled the whimbrel's flight schedule. It was done by using geolocators to track the migration of the birds (Numenius phaeopus). Those are small buttons, the size ...

December 6, 2016 - The research team showed that prior to the industrial period (pre AD 1800), changes in the North Atlantic Ocean, brought about by variations in the Sun's activity and volcanic eruptions, were driving our climate and led to changes in the atmosphere ...

December 6, 2016 - Benjamin Hennig (@geoviews) is Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Iceland and Honorary Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is also part of the Worldmapper project and is author ...

November 24, 2016 - Benjamin Hennig (@geoviews) is Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Iceland and Honorary Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He is part of the Worldmapper project and is author of ...

November 20, 2016 - The joint facility between Beijing and Iceland is funded by China's Polar Research Institute and the facility will house Chinese, Icelandic and international scientists when it opens next year. The facility which will resemble a cement shell nestled in ...

November 16, 2016 - In a remote valley in northern Iceland, close to the Arctic Circle, China and Iceland are constructing a research facility to study the Northern Lights, space weather, and other upper atmosphere phenomena.

November 11, 2016 - Possibilities for a cooperation between the Icelandic Universities and the German University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld were discussed. Interesting opportunities such as exchange programs for students could be developed and theoretical research on Iceland ...

November 10, 2016 - ... the Galaxias Fossae depression, should be kept in mind when looking for habitats on Mars. Gro Pedersen, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland who was not involved with the study, agrees that the depressions are promising sites for future ...

December 2, 2016 - "In a developed market, you are competing with cheaper forms of conventional power generation, such as gas and also hydro. Energy storage costs still have some way to come down for a hybrid plant like Kennedy Energy Park to be competitive," he said.

December 1, 2016 - SEATTLE - When firefighter paramedics Morlon Malveaux and Mark Pedeferri learned that their powerhorse diesel ambulance was going to be traded for a gas-powered hybrid they were more than a little concerned. The two, who run a Medic One rig ...