Twas in Action

"It's the landscape that defines the Mediterranean region," says Paolo Lombardi, director of the WWF Mediterranean Programme Office. "And we are treating the Mediterranean region's landscape badly."

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, Italy, announces that TWAS has been selected to receive the prestigious international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize

TWOWS, TWAS and The Elsevier Foundation are recognizing twelve talented women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean for their research excellence.

"China must move from a low-cost manufacturing economy to an economy driven by science-based innovation," says Wang Yuan

"We have a window of opportunity to put in place the technologies and policies that we need to curb greenhouse gas emissions," says Mohan Munasinghe (TWAS Fellow 1994).

Oil is not the only energy source in oil-rich Arab countries, says Farouk El-Baz (TWAS Fellow 1985). The region is also richly endowed with sun and wind.

Romain Murenzi, a key architect of Rwanda's efforts to devise a successful blueprint for science-based sustainable development, has been appointed the new executive director of TWAS

"The rapid growth of cities worldwide marks a demographic shift as significant as the shift from hunters and gatherers to farmers and settlers that took place some 10,000 years," says Hans Van Ginkel

TWAS and ISTIC announce the recipients of the first ‘ISTIC-TWAS Entrepreneurship Awards’.

Jacob Palis, president of TWAS, has won the 2010 Balzan Prize in mathematics.