Twas in Action

TWAS Associate Fellow Marc Van Montagu received the Genome Valley Award 2009 from Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state Andhra Pradesh

"Africa's universities must be reformed and strengthened, and each African country must have at least one world-class university." This was the key message conveyed by Mohamed H.A. Hassan.

TWAS Steering Committee meeting today.

Beatriz Barbuy, an eminent Brazilian astrophysicist, and Roddam Narasimha, an internationally renowned Indian engineer and physicist, have been awarded the 2008 Trieste Science Prize.

SciDev.Net carries an article by Arturo Barba about the statement that marked the end of TWAS's 25th anniversary celebration.

TWAS and Forgea International announce a training course on "Capacity Building in Environment-related Issues in Geomining: Bioremediation and Phytoremediation Techniques for the Reclamation of Mine Si

TWAS Marks 25th Anniversary with Election of 41 New Members.

Twenty-five years after TWAS was set up, Yojana Sharma examines whether the Academy is any nearer to achieving its ambitious goals.

On the occasion of TWAS's 25th anniversary, the Academy and NATURE Publishing Group are pleased to announce the publication of A World of Science in the Developing World.

TWAS Executive Director Mohamed H.A. Hassan notes that the global scientific community has recently been split into three worlds: the North, the surging South, and the stagnant South.