Commenting on the prospects for United States-Asia relations during President Obama’s second term in office, AIT Senior Fellow and Executive-in-Residence Ambassador Curtis S. Chin has called for less American emphasis on defense alone in Asia and much more focus on establishing and strengthening U.S. business, education and cultural ties across the continent.

Several AIT School of Management graduate degree programs are near the top of regional and global tables, according to a newly released Eduniversal Ranking of the world’s Best Master’s and MBA programs.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kandahar University to broaden and intensify its partnership with the university in Afghanistan located in the southern region of the country.

With construction of conventional satellites being costly and challenging, the concept of micro-satellites is picking up globally. Micro-satellites offer the benefits of low cost and customized on-demand operational parameters. Presenting micro-satellite technology and the concept of an Asian Micro-satellite Consortium (AMC) was Dr. Yukihiro Takahashi, Director of Space Mission Center, and Department of Cosmosciences, Hokkaido University, during a visit to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 22 January 2013.

Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST) has expressed its desire to foster a partnership with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The University is keen to strengthen its international research collaboration, and can offer summer scholarships to students from AIT.

Asian Institute of Technology alumnus Dr. Assadej Vanichchinchai has won the 2012 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category of Operations and Production Management for his research on “The Relationship between Quality Management and Supply Chain Management: An Analysis of the Automotive Industry in Thailand”.

A letter, “Moving AIT forward: Important update from AIT President” was sent to the AIT community on 22 January 2012. The letter is being reproduced here:

University of Tuscia, Italy, and Environmental and Economic Research Institute (EERi), Myanmar have signed an agreement with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) to implement a community development program titled “Development of Rural Aquaculture through Entrepreneurship in Women in Myanmar.”

Building on principles of environmental policy and nature conservation, the concept of Earth System Governance puts these principles into a broader context of human-induced transformations of the entire earth system. Elaborating on Earth System Governance was Mr. Ruben Zondervan, its Executive Director, in a talk delivered at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 18 January 2012.