Twas in Action

TWAS Fellow Ahmed Azad believes that any plan to achieve development and prosperity in Bangladesh must include a massive, coordinated and expert investment in science and technology

Felix Korbla Akorli from Ghana, now lecturer in telecommunications in Rwanda, was among the first awardees of a South-South fellowship

Fernando Quevedo describes the importance of the exciting discovery this summer of a Higgs-boson like particle – and the early role played by Abdus Salam

Chinese president Hu Jintao opened TWAS's 12th General Conference in Tianjin

Trieste, in northern Italy, is where TWAS has its headquarters - and this weekend, for the first time, the city is home to an ambitious new event called 'Trieste Next'

Three distinguished experts, who explained the science, politics and impacts of climate change to an eager audience composed largely of high school and university students

A woman scientist, Shamsun Nahar Khan from Bangladesh, has been awarded the first Atta-ur-Rahman Prize

Three TWAS Fellows have been selected to present the TWAS Medal lectures at next year's annual meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina

During the closing session of the 2012 edition of Trieste Next, the City's Mayor announced that the theme of next year's event would be water

Margaret Kamar, Kenya’s Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, comments on her cabinet's future plans to disseminate a scientific culture in her country