Twas in Action

An eminent Mexican biologist and an internationally renowned Indian chemist, whose innovative laboratory technique have been awarded the Trieste Science Prize for 2007.

Today marked the final day of the TWAS 21st General Assembly in Hyderabad, India.

It's not the African pink flamingos – strutting gracefully in the shallows of Kenya's Lake Nakuru – that capture the attention of Hamadi Iddi Boga. It's what's beneath their feet.

Cheng-Wen Wu, founding president of the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taipei, spoke at the TWAS 11th General Conference in Durban, South Africa

Are mathematicians the architects of an unseen world?

Phil Hockey of the University of Cape Town warned that without effective conservation measures the African Penguin could be facing extinction within thirty or forty years.

TWAS has just announced the election of 50 new members.

Naledi Pandor was appointed minister of science and technology of South Africa by president Jacob Zuma in May 2009.

The 2009 CNR Rao Prize has been awarded to Akiça Bahri, Director for Africa of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Accra, Ghana.

Mohamed H.A. Hassan, executive director of TWAS, and A.M. Taleb, cultural advisor from the the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq, signed a memorandum of understanding