Professor Samantha Hettiarachchi, Fellow of the Academy, Professor of Civil Engineering and expert in coastal engineering and disaster risk reduction, passed away earlier this year. A memorial lecture in his honour will take place on Thursday 29 November 2018 from 5 pm to 8 pm (including reception) at the main auditorium of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo […]

IAP Statement: “A Call for Action to Tackle the Growing Burden of Dementia” Release Date: 5 July 2018; 00:01 CET Contact: Peter McGrath IAP Coordinator, Trieste, Italy Email: mcgrath@twas.org, iamp@twas.org Tel: +39 040 2240 571; +39 040 2240 681   Howard Chertkow, MD, FRCP, FCAHS Professor of Neurology, McGill University; Scientific Director, Canadian Consortium on […]

The 2018 TWAS Fellowships call for applications is now open for PhD and PDoc programmes that are offered in the natural and engineering sciences to students and researchers from developing countries to gain postgraduate education and research experience at top global science institutions in the South. The TWAS Fellowships programme offers over 370 PhD and […]

TWAS, in partnership with the SRM Governance Initiative, is proud to announce the call for proposals for a major new SRM modelling fund for developing country scientists: the DECIMALS Fund (Developing Country Impacts Modelling Analysis for SRM). DECIMALS will support scientists from the Global South who want to analyse how SRM geoengineering might affect their […]

The Role of National Academies in National Development – 39thAnnual General Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka – Address by Andrew Holmes 27th March, 2018