Press room
Giovanni Ortolani
Public Information Officer
Via Beirut, 6
Enrico Fermi Building, Room 112
Office: +39 040 2240-324
gortolani@twas.org
Cristina Serra
Staff writer
Via Beirut, 6
Enrico Fermi Building, Room 113
Phone: +39 040 2240-429
Mobile: +39 338 430-5210
cserra@twas.org
Sean Treacy
Staff Writer
Via Beirut, 6
Enrico Fermi Building, Room T8/2
Office: +39 040 2240-538
streacy@twas.org
General contact: info@twas.org
Filter by
Open
TWAS Fellow (1999) Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye from Senegal has just been elected the new president of the Nairobi-based African Academy of Sciences (AAS). He succeeds Mohamed H.A. Hassan.
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
Murenzi è uno degli artefici della rinascita del Ruanda dopo il terribile genocidio del 1994. Subentra a Mohamed H.A. Hassan, alla guida dell'Accademia per oltre vent'anni.
Art and science can often come together for powerful effect.
Spun into thread or made into cloth, cotton has been the primary source of much of the world's clothing and fabric for thousands of years, rivalled only by wool and silk
For those who are privileged to be members, science academies often serve as sanctuaries from the troubles and tribulations of everyday life
Sean McDowell (TWAS Fellow 2009) talks about the challenges he faces – and the success he has achieved – as a researcher in the Caribbean.
"We have reached a stage in global development when even the poorest countries can readily derive material benefits from investments in science and technology," says Heneri A.M. Dzinotyiweyi
M. Thameur Chaibi (TWAS Fellow 2009), a senior researcher at the National Agricultural Research Institute of Tunisia, has experienced water shortages since his early youth.
"Every child in Jamaica wants to become a medical doctor, but they don't know the other opportunities that science has to offer," says TWAS Young Affiliate Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot