The Executive Board of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) is meeting at TWAS's headquarters in Trieste, Italy, from 30 to 31 March 2009.
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.
Beatriz Barbuy, an eminent Brazilian astrophysicist, and Roddam Narasimha, an internationally renowned Indian engineer and physicist, have been awarded the 2008 Trieste Science Prize.
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