Our Community Blog

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Last fall I got the chance to come and study at the University of the Westfjords Coastal Communities program in Ísafjörður. After nearly a year of coursework I returned home to Colorado. For the last ...

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“My first að smala in Ingjaldssandur bewitched me. Bettý sent me high to chase an obstinate bunch of bleating devils. I complied, while repeating the autocratic maxim: ‘I can go wherever the sheep can...

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Hi everyone, I will introduce myself, Anthony Farge, doctoral student in social psychology specializing in social representations, I come from Brittany (in France) and I am also part of the reMERci r...

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One of the universal warnings for tourists coming to Iceland is “Watch out, everything is so expensive.” Which is fair, it’s an island. A lot of things have to get shipped in. Reykjavik, though, has ...

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Whenever time allows, I am happy to conduct research on regional development in Iceland. And there is much to be researched and discovered. I am particularly interested in living conditions in remote ...

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In my several years of following UW’s social media before finally being able to apply and attend, I saw multiple pictures of students on boats doing science, which was very jealousy-inducing. Hands-on...

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What determines why some birds migrate and others do not? This question is fundamental to understanding how migratory systems are responding to environmental changes, but the causes of individual migr...

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We are happy to introduce our newest members of staff, Franziska Vogl and Franziska Schmidke from Germany. They are doing and internship at the University Centre as a part of their studies in Public A...

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I am Canadian-Swiss, and I did the majorities of my studies up to my bachelor’s in molecular biology in Geneva, Switzerland. Now you might be wondering how and why I went from molecular biology to coa...

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I am not what one might call a Good Skier, but I got some hand-me-down skis about three years ago during a friend’s ski trip to my area. I hadn’t used them since. But when I was researching the Univer...