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April 2025 News from the Young Academies
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GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant 2025/26 – open for applications
GYA warmly welcomes new members 2025!
GYA members contribute to UKYA workshop for at-risk scholars
GYA Executive Committee members revisit the “Spirit of Asilomar”
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From lab to products, scientists to community, and passion to reality
by Siok Yee Chan, Reem Abou Assi
and Teoh Xin Yi and Rana Sejare
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Latin American and the Caribbean Science Leadership Programme II (Episode 7)
Episode 7 features GYA alumna and SLP-LAC Project Lead Paulina Carmona-Mora and SLP LAC fellow from Ecuador Xavier Chiriboga discussing the Declaration of Leticia “Transforming the STEM future: Visibilizing the social responsibility of young academics in Latin American and Caribbean”.
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Yensi Flores Bueso (United States)
With the GYA, I was not only able to co-lead the first global study on research assessment but also to serve as a steering board member of CoARA. GYA opened platforms for me as a researcher coming from a country without research infrastructure.
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Nova Ahmed (Bangladesh)
With a GYA WG colleague, Dr Shabana Khan, we wrote a grant and received the GDN Outstanding Research and Development Grant to address misinformation and fake news during disaster periods.
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Mohammad Hosseini (United States)
Through a Sasha Kaganski Grant, I was able to hire a talented student (who comes from a low-resourced area) to gain academic experience.
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Gregory A. Weiss (United States)
I met Prof. Colin Raston while travelling on GYA business. Based on our quick-to-develop collaboration, we won an Ig Nobel Prize for “unboiling the egg” and published about a dozen papers together.
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Paulina Carmona-Mora (United States)
Through GYA contacts, I identified researchers from Egypt to write a joint grant. Also, two years ago, my GYA «roommate» and I got a grant to organise the first Central Asia Genomics Symposium.
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Jane Yau (Germany)
Through the GYA, several opportunities to collaborate with international organisations including UNESCO, ISC and Smithsonian have been made available to me.
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Yensi Flores Bueso (United States)
With the GYA, I was not only able to co-lead the first global study on research assessment but also to serve as a steering board member of CoARA. GYA opened platforms for me as a researcher coming from a country without research infrastructure.
View Yensi's Profile
Nova Ahmed (Bangladesh)
With a GYA WG colleague, Dr Shabana Khan, we wrote a grant and received the GDN Outstanding Research and Development Grant to address misinformation and fake news during disaster periods.
View Nova's Profile
Mohammad Hosseini (United States)
Through a Sasha Kaganski Grant, I was able to hire a talented student (who comes from a low-resourced area) to gain academic experience.
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Gregory A. Weiss (United States)
I met Prof. Colin Raston while travelling on GYA business. Based on our quick-to-develop collaboration, we won an Ig Nobel Prize for “unboiling the egg” and published about a dozen papers together.
View Greg's Profile
Paulina Carmona-Mora (United States)
Through GYA contacts, I identified researchers from Egypt to write a joint grant. Also, two years ago, my GYA «roommate» and I got a grant to organise the first Central Asia Genomics Symposium.
View Paulina's Profile
Jane Yau (Germany)
Through the GYA, several opportunities to collaborate with international organisations including UNESCO, ISC and Smithsonian have been made available to me.
View Jane's Profile
Yensi Flores Bueso (United States)
With the GYA, I was not only able to co-lead the first global study on research assessment but also to serve as a steering board member of CoARA. GYA opened platforms for me as a researcher coming from a country without research infrastructure.
View Yensi's Profile
Nova Ahmed (Bangladesh)
With a GYA WG colleague, Dr Shabana Khan, we wrote a grant and received the GDN Outstanding Research and Development Grant to address misinformation and fake news during disaster periods.
View Nova's Profile
Mohammad Hosseini (United States)
Through a Sasha Kaganski Grant, I was able to hire a talented student (who comes from a low-resourced area) to gain academic experience.
View Mohammad's Profile
Gregory A. Weiss (United States)
I met Prof. Colin Raston while travelling on GYA business. Based on our quick-to-develop collaboration, we won an Ig Nobel Prize for “unboiling the egg” and published about a dozen papers together.
View Greg's Profile
Paulina Carmona-Mora (United States)
Through GYA contacts, I identified researchers from Egypt to write a joint grant. Also, two years ago, my GYA «roommate» and I got a grant to organise the first Central Asia Genomics Symposium.
View Paulina's Profile
Jane Yau (Germany)
Through the GYA, several opportunities to collaborate with international organisations including UNESCO, ISC and Smithsonian have been made available to me.
View Jane's Profile
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