Croatia is the first in something—Ivo Šlaus has been elected President of the World Academy of Art and Science.  To read about science as the main bearer of progress for mankind, the need to solve unemployment and the unusual extremes of weather.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in cooperation with the Center for Inquiry (CFI) Croatia – Center for the Promotion of Science, Humanism and Critical Reasoning, is holding a public forum entitled the Mystique of GMOs, to be led by Dr. Hrvoje Fulgosi, beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, February 10, 2012, in the Auditorium of Wing III of the RBI.

Dr. Ivo Šlaus, RBI Scientist Emeritus, was recently elected President of the World Academy of Art & Science. For the first time in history, the headquarters of the WAAS will be located in the Republic of Croatia, at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. 

Microwave Assisted Cycloaddition Reactionsby Davor Margetić, Ph.D., a member of the Laboratory for Physical-Organic Chemistry and the Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, was recently published as part of the series Chemical Engineering Methods and Technology by the New York publishing house of  Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York.

Yesterday at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, as part of the the Embassy Series Sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute, The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency E. Park Seong Ung, delivered a lecture entitled “The Dynamic History of Korean Science and Technology,“ in which he presented the achievements of the Republic of Korea during the past 40 years in the areas of the economy, science and technology.

For the sixth year in a row, L'Oreal Adria and the Croatian Commission for UNESCO have rewarded the most successful young female scientists in the natural sciences and interdisciplinary fields who are in the final stage of preparing their doctoral dissertations. This year, the recipients include two research assistants from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI): Martina Malnar of the Laboratory for Molecular Neuropharmacology and Galja Pletikapić of the Laboratory for Bioelectrochemistry and Surface Imaging.

We invite you to join us for a lecture by the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Croatia, His Excellency Park Seong Ung entitled „Dynamic History of Korean Science and Technology“ to be held Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 at 16:00 in the auditorium of Wing III, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute, as the first Croatian member of the European Cervical Cancer Association—ECCA, is proud to announce a public discussion on the topic Vaccination and the Battle against Infectious Diseases and Cancer—What Should We Do for Ourselves? What Else Can the Society Do For Us?, which will be held on January 24, 2012 from 6 to 8 pm on Kaptol 27 in Zagreb at the Tribina Grada Zagreba.

Zagreb, January 18, 2012 – As part of the series Eminent Scientists at the RBI, Dr. Domagoj Vučić (Genetech, USA) will present a lecture entitled Targeted Activation of Apoptosis in Tumors: A Research Journey from Caterpillars to Clinics, at 12 noon on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, in the auditorium of Wing III.

Ruđer Bošković Institute scientists, in cooperation with colleagues from the international collaboration of CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), published a paper entitled “Search for Sub-eV Mass Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with He-3 Buffer Gas”, an Editors' Suggestion in the journal Physical Review Letters.