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UCL in North America
鈥�UCL鈥檚 Global Engagement Strategy continues to nurture strong collaborations between academics and students at 皇家华人 and at leading North American institutions.
We look forward to reaping the impact of our ongoing collaborations, and to continuing to foster new collaborations with world-leading North American partners.
Professor Brad Karp, Former Pro-Vice-Provost (North America)听
MAKING AN IMPACT
UCL community
There are 897 students from North America at 皇家华人.
UCL has 27,013 alumni in North America.
Tobi, who studies听abroad at 皇家华人 from Princeton University, recently won UCL Innovation & Enterprise's 拢10,000 prize for his renewable energy startup Reclaim Energies.
UCL alumna Claudia Chwalisz, originally from Canada, is now working for the OECD,听quietly changing the face of democracy across the world.
UCL reception brought together 110 East Coast alumni to catch up, make new connections and discuss the latest breakthroughs surrounding mental health.
Celebrating the many alumni volunteers who make a huge contribution to UCL, including Emilia Morano-Williams who volunteers as an alumni mentor in New York.
From UCL PhD student to UCLFAA board member today, alumna Nicole McKnight reflects on her UCL experience and the importance of building a strong community.
The Yale-UCL poetry competition provided a powerful platform for students of medicine and other disciplines to share their reflections on Covid-19.
We're proud of our international and multi-cultural community which counts听897 students from North America currently studying at 皇家华人 and听27,013 UCL alumni in North America, as well as our academics and staff from or with links to North America.听听
Meet some of our students, alumni and academics through the slideshow above.
Research, partnerships and projects听
Professor Will Mandy (UCL Clinical, Education and Health Psychology) used Global Engagement Funds to secure a collaboration with the University of Toronto that could help improve the diagnosis of women and girls with autism.
Professor Julienne Stroeve, within the NERC Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling in UCL Earth Sciences,听has been mapping the Arctic in partnership with a variety of agencies in the United States who use the seas.
Global Engagement Funds facilitated a collaboration between UCL and John Hopkins University, USA, to bring together two areas of stroke rehabilitation research.
Professor Ted Johnson (UCL Mathematics) explains how a collaboration with Florida State University could help make climate change predictions cheaper and more widely accessible.
UCL economics experts are advising Canada鈥檚 British Columbia government on the future of its economy post-pandemic.
UCL, the University of California, and Tsinghua and Shanghai universities have partnered to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of California wild fires.听
UCL and University of Toronto are to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals as part of the global Reach Alliance.
UCL academics are working with many North American partners to address global challenges. Highlights in the region include the听, a multi-disciplinary, research, education and clinical collaboration between Yale University and UCL, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2019.
UCL has also established a strategic global partnership with the University of Toronto, based on research and education activities spanning across our 11 Faculties, including the areas of child health, future cities, transnational education policy and cultural heritage. Find out more about North American activity here.
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Current and future partners
Partnership enquiries
We are keen to develop partnerships and collaborations with universities and institutions in North听America. If you are interested in exploring ways to work with UCL, our Senior Global Engagement Manager (Americas & Australasia),听Cl茅ment Leroy.
Current partners include:
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