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Jul 08, 2020

Maintaining Student Engagement and Attention During Remote Course Delivery

WUN is hosting a series of webinars to help member universities benefit from each other's experience in addressing some of the unprecedented pandemic...
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Jun 19, 2020

University of Lausanne joins WUN

We are delighted to announce that the University of Lausanne (UNIL) has become the newest member of WUN. Rector Nouria Hernandez noted that “UNIL...
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Jun 15, 2020

Sustainable Oceans Series: Highlighting Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life Below Water

(22 June series update) Following World Oceans Day, WUN is pleased to share a presentation of a series of articles in which United Nations Academi...
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Jun 08, 2020

Mental health and COVID-19: How WUN universities are supporting their students

Before COVID-19 there were transnational trends in student mental health as well as local particularities, as students face adjustment challenges, th...
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Jun 07, 2020

African landscapes facing climate change: using an integrated approach to mitigate impacts

Through transdisciplinary research the WUN Interdisciplinary Research Group on Climate Resilient African Landscapes is building insights into how dif...
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May 10, 2020

WUN Research Mobility Program: Ideas in motion

In this story, we hear how two WUN member researchers benefited from new connections made through the Research Mobility Program: Colin Chu, who worke...
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May 04, 2020

Climate and shock: resilience in food production systems after COVID-19

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, interruptions to public services and the imposition of social distancing have had major impacts on global agricu...
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May 04, 2020

Trauma, climate change, and maternal health: increasing impacts, trans-generational effects

Stressors and traumas such as violence and abuse, the effects of poverty, and the experience of emergencies or disasters have a major impact on the h...
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Apr 28, 2020

Student Mental Health During the Pandemic

WUN is hosting a series of webinars to help member universities benefit from each other's experience in addressing some of the unprecedented pandemic...