October 21, 2009

Zare named an Associate Fellow of TWAS

Professor Richard Zare, Chemistry Department Chair and the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Sciences, has been named an Associate Fellow of TWAS.

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, is an autonomous international organization, founded in 1983 in Trieste, Italy, by a distinguished group of scientists from the South under the leadership of the late Nobel laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan. It was officially launched by the secretary-general of the United Nations in 1985.

The Membership of TWAS is currently composed of 900 of the most distinguished scientists worldwide.

The main criterion for election as a TWAS Member is scientific excellence. Only those scientists who have attained the highest international standards and have made significant contributions to the advancement of science can be nominated as Fellows or Associate Fellows.

Fellows are scientists who live and work in developing countries and who have made contributions to their fields of science that meet internationally accepted standards of excellence;
Associate Fellows are scientists who live and work in developed countries, have made contributions to their fields of science that meet internationally accepted standards of excellence, and, additionally, have distinguished themselves in efforts to promote science in developing countries .

Eighty-five percent of TWAS Members are Fellows, fifteen percent are Associate Fellows. Members are elected for life.