The Bridge Fund delegation visits AIT
A delegation from the United States organization, The Bridge Fund, visited AIT on 22 February 2006 to explore further collaboration.
The organization maintains a focus on nomadic and semi-nomadic populations that are most disadvantaged and least served.
Workshop could address project proposal preparation
Prof. Sudip Rakshit, vice president for research, is planning to organize a one or two day workshop for the AIT community to learn more about ways to prepare project proposals in a professional manner.
Alumni association announces research grants for master's students
The AIT Alumni Association Research Grant is supplemental to available funds at AIT enabling students to return to their home country to work on problems of national importance.
The association will provide partial financial support to three students, one from each school per year.
Doctoral students may apply for conference grants
The AIT Alumni Association sponsors doctoral students to attend international conferences. The aims are to promote interest in sharing of knowledge and experience and to project the AIT image in research.
Expressions of interest sought
A call for Expression of Interest from lead institutions for a project on 'Analysis of River Basin Water Productivity and its Relationship to Poverty.'
Prof. Sudip Rakshit, vice president for research, announced a 'Call for Expression of Interest' from lead institutions for a project on: 'Analysis of River Basin Water Productivity and its Relationship to Poverty,' which was brought to his notice by Dr. Bernadette Resurreccion of Gender & Development Studies field of study, School of Environment, Resources and Development.
Harvard award honors environmental partnerships
The Roy Family Award was established by the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize public-private partnerships that have attained exemplary achievements in the area of environmental protection and natural resources conservation.
Student Union names leaders for January semester
The AIT Student Union announced its executive committee and committee heads for the January 2006 semester as follows:
President: Ms. Nisha Onta (Nepal), Gender and Development Studies, SERD. E-mail: Nisha.
Switch to new server means downtime
ITServ will replace the existing hosting server (stweb.ait.ac.th, a.k.a. staff.ait.ac.th, faculty.ait.ac.th) on Thursday, 23 March 23 at 5 p.m. This operation is expected to take about one hour.
During that time, student, staff and faculty personal home pages as well as the Web sites this server hosts will be unreachable.
Industry Fair takes place 28 March
The Student Affairs Unit and the Student Union invites the AIT community to the 2006 Industry Fair, which will take place on 28 March 2006 at the AIT Conference Center lobby.
Starting from 9 a.m., this year's event will be graced by highly-reputed organizations such as Schlumberger Overseas S.A., the Siam Cement Group, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Thailand) Limited, MappointAsia (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Solid waste management discussed in Vientiane
The CIDA-AIT Partnership, Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project under the Urban Environmental Management field of study will be co-organizing a policy dialog on Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 24 March 2006 with the Urban Research Institute, Ministry of Communication, Transport, Post and Construction, Lao PDR. AIT has an agreement with the Lao institute as its facilitating partner for co-organizing and carrying out the various activities of the SEA-UEMA project.