22nd Pacific Science Congress ends
The President of the Pacific Science Association giving his welcome remarks at the opening ceremony of the Congress.
The 22nd Pacific Science Congress (PSC-22) that was held in Kuala Lumpur from 14 to 17 June 2011, and co-organized by the ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) was a resounding success. Almost 800 participants from 45 countries participated in the four-day congress. Forty-six registered conveners of symposia heard more than 250 paper presentations organized along the 8 themes of the Congress. At the closing of the Congress the Chair of the Organizing Committee Zaidee Laidin who is also the Vice President of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia the main organizer of the event, presented the resolutions of the 22nd Congress. The ICSU ROAP science plan on health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment was also launched during the symposium on health challenges of urbanization convened by Professor Anthony Capon from the Australian National University (ANU).
