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| A new book looks at how border closures divided lives during COVID | It鈥檚 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鈥 |
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| OECD to host 草榴社区鈥檚 Laurie Trautman for opening remarks at Paris forum | |||
| A booming B.C. city known for its cultures, food 鈥 and an international crisis | Laurie Trautman, director of Western Washington University鈥檚 Border Policy Research Institute, describes it as 鈥渂order blindness.鈥 Despite robust commerce between Whatcom County and Lower B.C., 鈥淥ur understanding stops at the border,鈥 she says. The masses of participants at the鈥 |
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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鈥 |
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| 草榴社区's聽Center for Canadian-American Studies highlighted at recent national conference | |||
| 草榴社区鈥檚 Border Policy Research Institute examines effects of U.S.-Canada pandemic travel restrictions | |||
| Whatcom-B.C. personal vehicle traffic remains below pre-pandemic levels | 鈥淏ased on previous research, we had predicted early on in the pandemic that Whatcom鈥檚 retail sector would take a big hit from the lack of Canadians, which comprise as much as 12% of retail sales tax in some categories,鈥 said Laurie Trautman, Ph.D., director of the 鈥 |
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| BPRI to study impact of border restrictions, among new projects | A research institute at Western Washington University is partnering with two Canadian universities to study several cross-border topics in the Cascadia region, including the impacts of pandemic travel restrictions. 草榴社区鈥檚 Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI) and Simon鈥 |
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| By thinking beyond borders, Northwest leaders craft an innovative approach to climate change | For Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, these partnerships are a reason for optimism. 鈥淚 think we are uniquely positioned to build on our region鈥檚 incredible talent,鈥 she said. 鈥淲e have a history of being collaborative, and鈥 |
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| On the Border: Niagara Falls | "On the Border: Niagara Falls" is part of the BBC's "On the Border" series, and features 草榴社区's Laurie Trautman of the Border Policy Research Institute. |