Twas in Action

Richard N. Zare was one of three TWAS members selected to give a TWAS Medal Lecture at this years' conference in Tianjin

Last week, TWAS executive director, Romain Murenzi, presented the programmes and activities of TWAS to permanent delegates and observers at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

One year after his retirement, Mohamed Hassan, executive director of TWAS for twenty-six years, has been awarded the Abdus Salam Medal

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