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TWAS is the Academy of Sciences for the developing
world. It is an autonomous international organisation based in Trieste,
Italy and its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and
excellence for sustainable development in the South.
This award is just one of many. Prof Slippers recently
received the British Association Medal (Silver) from the Southern
Africa Association for the Advancement of Science (S2A3). This medal is
awarded on an annual basis to a person under the age of 40 years who is
actively engaged in scientific research and who has proved evidence by
way of publications, discoveries and/or skills of outstanding
capability and achievement, especially when measured by international
standards. The medal enjoys the status of being one of the highest
awards for original scientific research in South Africa.
Another feather in his cap was when the Global Young
Academy (GYA), an international, independent, science-based institution
that aims for excellence and impact that was launched last year,
elected Prof Slippers as the Co-chair. Prof Slippers is an Associate
Professor in the University of Pretoria’s Department of Genetics at the
Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI).
Prof Slippers is also one of three staff members of the
University to be elected as Founding Members of the South African Young
Academy of Science (SAYAS).
Story: Martie Meyer (UP News, Septmeber 2011)
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