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Sustainability in Higher Education: Building Competitive Advantage for Universities

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, a ranking system that evaluates how universities contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), covered 2,526 universities from 130 countries in its latest edition, published in 2025 [1]. That’s nearly four times the number of institutions they assessed when these rankings first came out in 2019.  Over the last decade, we’ve seen a rise in frameworks that […]

Shared Knowledge, Shared Impact: A New Era for Research Evaluation

This Open Access Week, experts explore how the research community can move beyond journal impact factors to measure real-world, community-driven impact through openness and equity.

INFOGRAPHIC : Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet! Research areas for renewable energy

April 22nd, 2025, marks the 55th celebration of Earth Day, and this year’s theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.” Here’s a snapshot of research areas that can help harness renewable energy for a sustainable future.

Safeguarding our forests: A call to future generations

The International Day of Forests this year (March 21st, 2025) is focusing on the theme: “Forests and  Foods.” A blog posted by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs summarizes role of forests in addressing hunger and shielding populations from the adverse effects of natural disaster and climate change. The recent devastating California wildfires reminded us that […]