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News Archive Date Headline 5/26/2010 WRN Leads Volcano Risk Initiative 10/13/2009 Willis Research Network Forms Alliance with Scripps Institution of Oceanography 9/10/2009 Willis Re Wins Analyst / Researcher of the Year Award for the Willis Research Network 9/7/2009 University of Oxford Joins Willis Research Network (WRN) 4/24/2009 Willis Research Network Convenes First Insurance Session at Largest Scientific Meeting in Europe 3/31/2009 Trade paper Insurance Day features WRN's Google award winning team 3/9/2009 Willis Research Network wins Google Research Award and supports Launch of National Centre of Earth Observation 3/2/2009 WRN British Embassy Climate Change Workshop in the press 2/24/2009 Cat 3 Hurricane in the Northeast: Willis/Princeton Insurers’ Summit 1/9/2009 Media Response to Dr Greg Holland's revolutionary work with supercomputers and climate models 12/10/2008 Scientists Reveal Groundbreaking Research into Future Hurricane Risks 10/29/2008 Willis Research Network Embraces US Supercomputer to Tackle Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Risk 10/27/2008 Insurers rise to flood challenges: Stuart Lane tells the Financial Times about becoming a weather detective 10/15/2008 Willis Becomes First Broker to Sponsor OECD’s Global Earthquake Model 10/10/2008 WRN Professors ask if the 2007 UK floods are a sign of things to come in the International Underwriting Association's World @ Risk Book 2008 10/3/2008 WRN's Dr Aidan Slingsby speaks to reinsurance magazine The Review about Google Earth's potential to insurers 9/25/2008 WRN Chairman Appointed to Natural Environment Research Council 6/30/2008 Willis Research Network Members Collaborate With USGS and CGS on Southern California Earthquake Study 6/23/2008 Willis Research Network Adds Princeton, NCAR and University of Colorado to Expand Global Reach to North America 6/12/2008 Willis Research Network adds University of Bologna and Pavia University in major European expansion 4/25/2008 Standing room only as crowds gather to see WRN and Google present the future of geovisualisation and insurance 12/3/2007 Evaluating Global Landslide Risk - Prof David Petley outlines the global threat of landslide 12/3/2007 Megacity Flood Risk & Insurance - Prof Paul Bates examines future flood risk to megacities 11/9/2007 Birkbeck College and Willis Research Network Gain EPSRC PhD Funding for Thames Gateway Flood Risk 2/12/2007 Willis Research Network Uses Japanese Supercomputer to Help Insurers Predict Typhoons, Hurricanes and Climate Change 1/19/2007 WRN's Prof David Stephenson blames "explosive" jet streams for UK winter storms in The Independent 12/21/2006 Willis Research Network's groundbreaking links between industry and academia featured in DTI Report 11/3/2006 Prof David Stephenson reveals the secrets of Storm Clustering to reinsurance magazine The Review 9/11/2006 Willis creates world's largest collaboration between insurance and academia