Delegates from the Royal University of Bhutan led by Mr. Gajel Lhundup, Director, Department of Planning and Resources, Royal University of Bhutan visited AIT and sought greater cooperation and help in capacity building from AIT.

Delegates from the Royal University of Bhutan led by Mr. Gajel Lhundup, Director, Department of Planning and Resources, Royal University of Bhutan visited AIT and sought greater cooperation and help in capacity building from AIT.

“Fundamentals of Nanotechnology”, a publication co-authored by AIT Visiting American Professor Gabor L. Hornyak (pictured below, right, of the Colorado School of Mines) and Professor Joydeep Dutta (pictured below, left), Director of the AIT Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology, has been acclaimed as one of the world’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009 by “Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries”, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and a Division of the American Library Association.

A paper co-authored by an AIT faculty and a doctoral student received the best paper award at a web based conference on “Climate 2009/KLIMA 2009” held from 2-6 November 2009 at Hamburg in Germany.

The AIT community were pleasantly surprised this morning when they saw the Institute President, Said Irandoust, touring the campus for an on-the-spot assessment of maintenance and upkeep of campus facilities.

The AIT community were pleasantly surprised this morning when they saw the Institute President, Said Irandoust, touring the campus for an on-the-spot assessment of maintenance and upkeep of campus facilities.

Students from 18 countries got their first experience of life and academics at the Asian Institute of Technology at the Orientation program organized today. Welcoming the students, AIT President Said Irandoust stated that the fact that the students have entered AIT is a testimony to their strong candidature.

Chairperson of the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. Rajendra Pachauri is hopeful of an agreement on climate change at the 2010 UN Climate Change conference at Mexico conference later this year.