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A new book looks at how border closures divided lives during COVID | It’s been five years since Covid 19 began spreading around the world from its origin in Wuhan, China. In that emergent time of the pandemic, there was widespread concern about clusters of the virus, in Italy, then Iran, then an outbreak at a nursing home in the Pacific Northwest. By… |
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One Quick Question with the BPRI's Laurie Trautman | |||
WWU's Border Policy Research Institute launches new interactive tool on Canada-US trade along the border | |||
OECD to host WWU’s Laurie Trautman for opening remarks at Paris forum | |||
Journalism's Derek Moscato pens new BPRI Border Brief on the upcoming FIFA World Cup | |||
BPRI issues Call For Papers in advance of annual Borderlands Conference this spring | |||
A booming B.C. city known for its cultures, food — and an international crisis | Laurie Trautman, director of Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, describes it as “border blindness.” Despite robust commerce between Whatcom County and Lower B.C., “Our understanding stops at the border,” she says. The masses of participants at the… |
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Did COVID doom isolated WA town? State and federal leaders asked to help save it | While McClatchy was in Point Roberts, researchers from the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University were there to interview residents about all impacts of the border closures. Dr. Laurie Trautman is the director of the program… |
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WWU and SFU work together to analyze COVID-19’s impact on travel | Researchers at Western Washington University (WWU) are teaming up across the border to analyze COVID-19’s impact on travel. WWU’s Border Policy Research Institute postdoctoral fellow Andréanne Bissonnette says that their next project will be done in conjunction with Simon Fraser… |
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Researchers at WWU collect Canada border stories | Researchers at Western Washington University are looking to collect stories from residents along our northern border about life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Western’s Border Policy Research Institute was created to inform our local policy-makers on matters concerning the border with… |