World Habitat Day 2000: Women and Urban Governance
The Urban Management Programme (UMP)/AIT Core Group, consisting of faculty from the Urban Environmental Management (UEM) and Gender and Development (GenDev) fields of study, is sponsoring World Habitat Day in Thailand under the theme 'Women and Urban Governance.
Meeting the AIT President
H.E. Mr. Do Ngoc Son (right), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Thailand, is seen receiving a souvenir from Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, AIT President, during his official visit to AIT on 19 September.
AIT GAZETTE
Issue No. 12
19 SEPTEMBER 2000
Report of the 5 September 2000 Reform Process Committee (RPC) Meeting
A. Matters for Information
1. PEC members along with Staff and Labour Union Representatives met with Legal Advisor on 29 August 2000 to discuss issues of general concern.
Officers from the Command and General Staff College visit AIT
Sixty officers from the Command and General Staff College, the Institute of Advanced Military Studies, Royal Thai Army, recently visited the Distributed Education Center (DEC) and the Asian Center for Research and Remote Sensing, STAR Program.
Seminars & Workshop @ AIT
RCC User Training Series
In order to familiarize users with RCC facilities and services, the Center will conduct a series of user training as follows:
19-20 Sept. - E-mail and other Internet applications
21 Sept. - Remote dial-up services
22 Sept.
Election of the New Board Chairman
It is with pride and pleasure that I wish to inform the AIT community that the Board of Trustees
of the Asian Institute of Technology has elected among its members H.E. Mr. Anand
Panyarachun to be its next Chairman, in replacement of the late M L Birabhongse Kasemsri,
former Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty the King of Thailand.
Newly-elected BMA Governor Mr. Samak Sundaravej to lecture at AIT
Mr. Samak Sundaravej, newly elected Governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), will address infrastructure issues pertaining to the sustainable development of Bangkok as a major metropolis with over 6 million people, at a lecture to be held on Wednesday, 20 Sept.
PROFESSORIAL APPOINTMENT
With the endorsement of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, I am pleased to announce the promotion in academic rank of Dr Yordphol Tanaboriboon, SCE/Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Program, from Associate Professor to full Professor effective 1 July 2000.
Prof.
Time Series Analysis of NOAA AVHRR 10-Day NDVI Composites
As part of the seminar series being organized by the Space Technology Applications and Research Program in the School of Advanced Technologies, a seminar entitled, 'Time Series Analysis of NOAA AVHRR 10-Day NDVI Composites' will be held on 28 Sept.
August @ AITCV
AITCV launches an International Executive MBA Program
The AITCV opened its International EMBA Program following an orientation session held on 25 August in collaboration with the School of Management (SOM). The orientation featured a presentation by SOM faculty member Dr. Fredric William Swierczek.