Shark Eye Research Gives Insight Into Ocean Health
New research on how sharks see may help explain the relationship between other aquatic life and their environments and provide a benchmark for the health of our oceans.
Study Reveals How Plants Solve Problems
A new study by researchers at The University of Western Australia has provided a unique insight into how the same protein plays different roles in plant and animal cells.
Language intervention provides educational benefits for pre-school children
A pre-school language intervention programme can significantly improve the educational lives of children with poorly developed speech and language skills, according to new research by psychologists at the University of York.
International workshop considers human impact of global change
Researchers from across the world will come together at the University of Bristol to discuss past, present and future changes in sea levels and ice sheets, and the implications for human populations.
China in 2020
A major WUN workshop looks at the development of China in the second decade of the 'Chinese Century'
International history postgraduate students gather in Sydney
The 3rd International History Postgraduate Intensive, hosted by the University of Sydney, has brought postgraduate research students from WUN universities Sydney, Bristol and Leeds, together with peers from Harvard, Birkbeck College, the École Normale Supérieure, Oxford and Australian National University.
Sydney announced as host of WUN Spintronics 2011
After hosting a successful spintronics symposium at the Shanghai Expo, the University of Sydney has been chosen as the venue for the 2011 Worldwide Universities Network Spintronics Conference. The event will be held in November next year and will bring some of the world's leading spintronics researchers to Sydney.
University of Auckland joins the Worldwide Universities Network
The University of Auckland has become the only New Zealand member of the Worldwide Universities Network, a network of leading universities focused on international research collaboration.
Centre to Study Our Unique Environment
A new $63 million Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre based at The University of Western Australia will boost marine science capacity in Australia, according to UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson.
UWA Vice-Chancellor to Head Worldwide Network
The University of Western Australia's Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson has been appointed Chair of the Worldwide Universities Network
(WUN) board.
WUN eJournal explores our colonial past
Ex Plus Ultra, the eJournal of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) International Network in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, is now available to read online at http://explusultra.wun.ac.uk/
Ex Plus Ultra is a postgraduate journal produced by postgraduate students for postgraduate students in colonial and postcolonial history. The first in its field.
WUN student forum provides input into Australian government policy
Students from WUN partner universities around the world came together in early April to put their entrepreneurial skills to the test at the inaugural WUN Stimulate Forum, hosted by the University of Sydney.
Student teams from York and Leeds in the UK, Alberta in Canada, and Nanjing in China joined Australian students from Western Australia and Sydney for the four-day forum, at which they were split into mixed teams to tackle a real business challenge –the emergence of e-publishing.
Inaugural Forum Stimulates Young Entrepreneurs
Students from WUN universities around the world will look at how the growth of e-publishing is creating business challenges and opportunities as part of an international forum at the University of Sydney.
Twenty-five students from the universities of Sydney, Western Australia, Nanjing, Alberta, Leeds and York are taking part in the STIMULATE forum, organised by the University of Sydney in conjunction with the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).
Move Over, Easter Bunny!
Microscopy technology at The University of Western Australia that enabled an international team of researchers to locate ancient DNA in fossilised egg-shells for the first time has paleontologists around the world crowing.
3rd International Conference on Spintronics Materials and Technology
Registration is now open for WUNSPIN10 - the third WUN International Conference on “Spintronic Materials and Technology” – which will take place at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) from June 21 to 23.
