WKU is expanding its international reach to the Arctic.
In simultaneous ceremonies Monday, WKU and the University of Akurreyri in Iceland signed an academic and research agreement which creates the North Atlantic Climate Change Collaboration.
WKU President Dr. Gary Ransdell spoke at a live news conference from Iceland.
"We want at WKU our faculty and students to be here, to learn and observe, to touch and feel firsthand, and experience the effects of climate change, and they will be part of the solution," said Ransdell.
The collaboration grew out of a climate change study abroad course last summer in Iceland. Another group of WKU faculty and students will return to Iceland in June.
