2014

Nobel laureate and TWAS Fellow Y.T. Lee leads a panel of experts in assessing the need for strong science in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Millennium Development Goals have helped drive historic progress against poverty and disease. But their biggest global impact may be less obvious.

Science will be crucial to solving global challenges. But some analysts worry that science lacks a voice in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals.

At a workshop in Mexico, co-organized by TWAS, experts weighed the environmental and social costs of surging global demand for the holothurians.

At a high-level conference co-organized by the InterAcademy Medical Panel, global health leaders focused on how poverty and other disadvantages can have lifelong health consequences.

A science diplomacy workshop in Mexico, co-organized by TWAS, provides training on sustainable management of small fisheries

Biochemist Yongyuth Yuthavong moves into a critical development role in his home country

Agricultural biologist Adel E.T. El-Beltagy, a member of the TWAS Council, takes a key development post

Speaking in New Zealand, TWAS executive director Romain Murenzi says new values and practices are reshaping science relationships between developing and developed nations

Ingrid Daubechies has a passion for maths. She uses it to solve problems, to analyse art, to build the strength of developing nations – and to open doors for women.