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TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, has announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2008.
Applications are now open for the newly launched TWAS-USM fellowship programmes tenable in Malaysia.
Dr. Albert T. Modi from South Africa and Dr. Benedict M. Taele from Lesotho have been selected to participate in the 2008 STS forum Future Leaders initiative.
The First EuroAfriCa-ICT Summit will be held in Brussels, Belgium, early next year.
On 10 June, Ichiro Kanazawa, President of the Science Council of Japan (member of IAP) presented Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda joint statements prepared by science academies for the G8 Summit
Beatriz Barbuy, an eminent Brazilian astrophysicist, and Roddam Narasimha, an internationally renowned Indian engineer and physicist, have been awarded the 2008 Trieste Science Prize.
Maurice Tchuente, professor of Computer Science at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, has been awarded the 2008 CNR Rao Prize for Scientific Research.
TWAS awarded its first-ever Regional Prizes for Public Understanding of Science.
The programme for TWAS's 18th General Meeting in Trieste, Italy, 13-14 November 2007.
Media Advisory: 18th TWAS General Meeting