An article by the AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust was published in the Bangkok Post today. Titled “Do university rankings truly measure up?”, it was coauthored by Dr. Sandro Calvani. Director, ASEAN Regional Center of Excellence on Millennium Development Goals (ARCMDG).

Opportunities exist for the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) to partner with the ‘US-Thai Creative Partnership’ across a broad range of activities. The initiative is spearheaded by the Embassy of the United States in Thailand.

Civil Service Commission (CSC) of Republic of Maldives has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create more capacity among civil servants to pursue public sector reform initiatives. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Mr. Mohammed Fahmy Hassan, Chairman of Maldives CSC, and Prof. Sudip Kumar Rakshit, Vice President – Research, AIT on 25 July 2011.

Prof. Murugesu Sivapalan, an AIT alumnus who received his M.Eng in Water Resources Engineering in 1977, was selected by the American Geophysical Union as the 2011 AGU Robert E. Horton Medalist in recognition of his “fundamental contributions to the science of hydrologic predictions at the watershed scale”. This is the highest and most prestigious award for hydrology, worldwide, awarded for outstanding contributions to hydrology. He will be honored at the Honors Ceremony on the evening of December 7 at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, U.S.A.

Prof. Murugesu Sivapalan, an AIT alumnus who received his M.Eng in Water Resources Engineering in 1977, was selected by the American Geophysical Union as the 2011 AGU Robert E. Horton Medalist in recognition of his “fundamental contributions to the science of hydrologic predictions at the watershed scale”. This is the highest and most prestigious award for hydrology, worldwide, awarded for outstanding contributions to hydrology. He will be honored at the Honors Ceremony on the evening of December 7 at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, U.S.A.

Prof. Murugesu Sivapalan, an AIT alumnus who received his M.Eng in Water Resources Engineering in 1977, was selected by the American Geophysical Union as the 2011 AGU Robert E. Horton Medalist in recognition of his “fundamental contributions to the science of hydrologic predictions at the watershed scale”. This is the highest and most prestigious award for hydrology, worldwide, awarded for outstanding contributions to hydrology. He will be honored at the Honors Ceremony on the evening of December 7 at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, U.S.A.

National Economics University (NEU), Vietnam today explored partnership with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), including the possibility of offering joint educational programs. A twenty-six member strong delegation from NEU visited AIT’s School of Management (SOM) on 13 July 2011, and sought its help in curriculum development in the field of marketing.

AIT alumna Dr. Ranjna Jindal of Mahidol University (MU) was recently honored by her university as the advisor of the Mahidol University 2010 Distinguished Thesis Awardee, Ms. Ying Li.

Auburn University, Alabama, USA, has expressed interest in student exchange between Auburn and the Asian Institute of Technology. Dr. Salman Azhar, Associate Professor at College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University, stated that their university has 45 educational programs, out of which 29 are classified as “study abroad programs.”

A book titled “Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications” coedited by a faculty member of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Dr. Rajendra P. Shrestha, has just been released by IGI Global.