An agreement between the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and TWAS will support up to 10 PhD fellowships per year focused on weather, climate and water-related hazards.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences and TWAS have invited experts from 14 nations to a roundtable on the use of diplomacy in scientific research and governance. Venue: Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest, Hungary, on 8 April 2013.
The Amir of Kuwait, Al-Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, opened a conference of women scientists and engineers Sunday with an expression of "deep regard for the women's place in the hierarchy with men toward sustainable development."
TWAS’s Regional Offices have awarded their Regional Prizes this year to five researchers from different regions of the developing world who have worked creatively to popularize science. This year’s winners are from Argentina, Bangladesh, the Philippines, South Africa and Egypt.
A rising young Bangladeshi chemist whose work is helping develop new technology for cleaning drinking water has won the Atta-ur-Rahman Prize in Chemistry, TWAS announced today at its General Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Firdausi Qadri, director of the Centre for Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh, is the recipient of the 2013 C.N.R. Rao Prize, one of the awards conferred annually by TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries.
On the occasion of its 30th year of activity, TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of Science in developing countries, will honour two women who have provided decades of commitment to the Academy’s cause.
TWAS President Bai Chunli delivered an address to Academy members during the opening of the 24th TWAS General Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The following is a transcription of that address.
TWAS has announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2013 at the Academy's 24th General Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.