Twas in Action

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.

TWAS is endorsing a new project designed to promote science to school children and students

Nature magazine is running a series of articles entitled "Meetings That Changed The World".

TWAS's third research report published

Dr. Albert T. Modi from South Africa and Dr. Benedict M. Taele from Lesotho have been selected to participate in the 2008 STS forum Future Leaders initiative.

The TWAS 2008 Annual Report, detailing the Academy's activities over the past year, is now available.

On 10 June, Ichiro Kanazawa, President of the Science Council of Japan (member of IAP) presented Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda joint statements prepared by science academies for the G8 Summit

Maurice Tchuente, professor of Computer Science at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, has been awarded the 2008 CNR Rao Prize for Scientific Research.