TWAS Plus - Vol. 3 No. 4

TWAS Plus - Vol. 3 - No. 4 - July 2017

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TOP STORY Datuk Dr. Asma Ismail, a 2010 TWAS Fellow, was recently named the first woman ever to head the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Now she has an ambitious agenda: "I will inject my passion on championing science to address the needs of the bottom billion," she told TWAS in an interview. In addition, she'll push for strong research and policy on health technology, environment, water and other critical needs. And she wants to nurture "future generations with the right mind-set" for innovation. More

EDITORIAL

Writing in Science, TWAS Executive Director Mohamed Hassan urges a stronger commitment to addressing the toll of migration on developing countries.

OWSD

Nominate an outstanding chemist, mathematician or physicist for the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation early-career women awards. Deadline: 15 September.

OPPORTUNITIES

TWAS and NRF South Africa award fellowships of up to two years to post-doctoral researchers in the natural sciences. Deadline: 6 July.

IAP

Low- and middle-income countries urgently need quick diagnostic tests for severe diseases, say IAP for Health and the Academy of Medical Sciences UK.

OPPORTUNITIES

Apply now for prizes to honour women scientists and researchers from least developed and scientifically lagging countries. Deadline: 10 July.

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OPPORTUNITIES

Fellowships for pre-doctoral and postdoc biotech research are available via a TWAS/Indian Department of Biotechnology programme. Deadline: 31 August.

EVENTS

Policy and diplomacy on the responsible use of chemicals will be the focus of an OPCW-IAP-TWAS workshop in September in Trieste, Italy. Deadline: 1 August.

NEWS

Through a new agreement with TWAS, OWSD and GenderInSITE, Sida and UNESCO renew their support for science in developing countries.

GenderInSITE

GenderInSITE and partners explored a pilot survey to assess bias and other factors relating to gender in S&T careers and higher education.

NEWS

Science diplomacy holds great potential for Africa in building partnerships on health, astronomy and other research, said experts at a AAAS/TWAS workshop in Namibia.

"The adoption of new technologies is largely a process of social learning."
TWAS Fellow Calestous Juma, author, "Innovation and its enemies"

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