Professor Dame Jane Francis – New Chancellor of the University of Leeds

Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Professor Dame Jane Francis, has been announced as the new Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
CUHK Develops First English-taught Chinese Medicine MOOC

A team from the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK has developed a Chinese medicine MOOC in English and Asia’s first Chinese medicine clinical evidence online portal which gathers studies from around the world.
CUHK Launches the World’s First Child Heritage Chinese Language Corpus

CUHK announces the launch of the world’s first Child Heritage Chinese Language Corpus and the establishment of the University of Cambridge–CUHK Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism.
WUN researcher to address International Forum on Migration Data Statistics
WUN researcher to address International Forum on Migration Data Statistics in Paris
SDG Conference Bergen Knowledge for Our Common Future

WUN member The University of Bergen is organising a major conference on the role of Norwegian universities in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
CUHK Establishes Joint Lab with ETH Zurich and DGIST

The CUHK-DGIST-ETH Zurich Joint Research Laboratory on Innovative Nanotechnology for Medicine and Healthcare was recently formed to promote the R&D of innovative technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases.
WUN members Maastricht and York join forces in major partnership

WUN members Maastricht and York have agreed a major partnership in which they will establish joint research projects, teaching collaborations, knowledge exchange, student exchanges and sharing best practice among their staff.
International monitoring of SDG implementation and progress
The UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Impacts of climate change and ozone air pollution on crop production

Major findings WUN Responding to Climate Change research group published in science journal Atmospheric Environment.
WUN Conference and AGM 2018

The next WUN Conference & AGM will be held in Perth, Australia from 20 to 25 May 2018.