Professor Li Zhigang, dean of the School of Urban Design at Wuhan University (WHU), has been elected a Fellow of the United Kingdom's Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), the academy's highest honor recognizing exceptional contributions to social sciences.

The 2025 Economics Symposium between the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Wuhan University (WHU) was held at WHU from March 21 to 23.

Wuhan University's (WHU) Henryljp team from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing has defended their title by winning the "All-Weather Land Cover and Building Damage Mapping" track at the 2025 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Data Fusion Contest.

Wuhan University (WHU) hosted the first International Workshop on Global Communication and Sustainable Development from March 21 to 23.

Yuan Yufeng, vice-president of Wuhan University (WHU), welcomed a delegation from Russia's Baikal State University (BSU), led by vice-rector Vladimir Sinichenko, to WHU on March 24.

On March 20, Wuhan University (WHU) and the University of Sydney (USYD) hosted an online academic dialogue on sustainable development organized by WHU's Office of International Affairs and USYD's China Studies Centre.

Suzhou's Story, a map designed by graduate students from the School of Resource and Environmental Sciences at Wuhan University (WHU), has won the prestigious Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map, the only award of its kind at the 52nd Annual Map Design Competition, hosted by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS).

Wuhan University's (WHU) philosophy subject has achieved a global ranking of 23rd and is ranked 1st in Asia according to the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, which were released on March 12.