Prof. Yongguan Zhu wins 2013 TWAS Science Prize

The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) announced the 2013 winners of TWAS Science Prizes at its 24th General meeting on October 1st, 2013, in Buenos Aires. Prof. Yongguan Zhu has won the 2013 TWAS Science Prize on Agricultural Sciences for his systematic contribution to the understanding of arsenic dynamics in soil-plant systems, and mitigation of arsenic po...The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) announced the 2013 winners of TWAS Science Prizes at its 24th General meeting on October 1st, 2013, in Buenos Aires. Prof. Yongguan Zhu has won the 2013 TWAS Science Prize on Agricultural Sciences for his systematic contribution to the understanding of arsenic dynamics in soil-plant systems, and mitigation of arsenic po...

International Workshop on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance held at IUE

International Workshop on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance was held at IUE from December 5th to 8th, theme on the occurrence, transmission and control of antibiotic in the environment. Renowned experts from over 50 countries including the USA,International Workshop on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance was held at IUE from December 5th to 8th, theme on the occurrence, transmission and control of antibiotic in the environment. Renowned experts from over 50 countries including the USA, UK and Canada, attended the workshop and discussed on the resistance abundance and diversity of antibiotic, the r...

Professor Francis L Martin from Lancaster University visited IUE

From 20 to 24 November, Francis L Martin, professor of Environmental Research Centre, Lancaster University, UK, visited the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE) at the invitation of the Exposure Science and Health Effects Research Group and the Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Martin gave a report entitled "Novel sensor...

Cooperation Memo between IUE and Trier University

September 7, 2009, a group of 11 members visited Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), including Dr Gottfried Jung, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Consumer Protection of Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany; Prof Peter Heck from Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), German Trier University of Applied Sciences, Prof You Yii-Der from Graduate School of Environm...

Urban Health and Well-Being International Programme Office to be hosted in IUE

International Council for Science (ICSU) announced on Nov. 27ththat the office of its new research programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing will be hosted at IUE. IUE was selected to host the International Programme Office (IPO) after asix-month open competition.The operation of IPO will start next year and funding for its five years has been secured from IUE, the Chinese Aca...

Urban Health and Well-Being International Programme Office to be hosted in Xiamen, China