Van C. Mow elected Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
12/19/2008
Professor Van C. Mow, Stanley Dicker Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering of SEAS was elected Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World at its 25th Anniversary Meeting in Trieste, Italy on November 11, 2008. This Academy was founded by a group of distinguished scientists under the leadership of physics Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan, and was officially launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations as the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 1985. Academy memberships consist of Fellows and Associate Fellows, representing some of the world's most distinguished scientists: Associate Fellows are citizens from the North, and Fellows are citizens from the South. Administration of TWAS is under the auspicious of UNESCO, and is co-funded by UNESCO and the Italian government. Mow's election to TWAS is due to his nearly 30 years of continuous efforts to help build the newly evolving biomedical engineering discipline in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand.