January 18, 2008
In Greenland, a Tiny University Takes On a Big Role
Greenland is a very big place, an island more than three times the size of Texas, with mile-thick sheets of ice covering much of its interior. Mississippi-wide rivers of glacial ice flow in slow motion into enormous fjords, choking them with icebergs the size of a city block.
The country's one university, by contrast, is tiny. Just 140 students and 14 faculty members work and study in the pair of buildings that make up the University of Greenland. Each is considerably smaller than the
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