May 01, 2014
Southampton professor receives prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society
Professor Tim Leighton from the University of Southampton has been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, ...
Apr 30, 2014
Mapping climate and energy measures
A WUN-funded research project aims to better understand the relationship between energy production and climate measures. The goal is to give decision-...
Apr 30, 2014
Genetic mix could benefit colonising plants and animals
Recently evaluated evidence suggests that organisms bred from different genetic lines have evolutionary advantages over more closely related members o...
Apr 17, 2014
WUN’s global family gathers in Cape Town for annual conference
Finding novel ways to address complex global issues such as climate change and public health was the recurring theme of this year’s WUN Annual Confe...
Apr 16, 2014
Bergen grows with WUN
The following news story appeared on the front page of the University of Bergen's news website on 3 April 2014. ...
Apr 16, 2014
New city wall discovered at ancient Roman port
Researchers from the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have discovered a new section of the boundary wall of the ancient Roman port of Ostia, ...
Apr 15, 2014
Global Research Networks: Experiments in Internationalization
In the spring 2014 edition of the IIE Networker Magazine, WUN Executive Director, Professor John Hearn writes about the convenient and inconvenient t...
Apr 15, 2014
Everest trek shows how some people get type II diabetes
Scientists have gained new insights into the molecular process of how some people get type II diabetes, which could lead to new ways of preventing peo...
Apr 11, 2014
Devil in disguise: A small coral-eating worm may mean big trouble for reefs
New research from the University of Southampton has identified a coral-eating flatworm as a potential threat for coral reefs. ...