The weekly trip to the market has now become more sustainable, courtesy of an initiative of the Asian Institute of Technology Campus Sustainability Club (AITCSC). Moving beyond car-pooling that students and residents of AIT often practice when they travel from the Institute campus, the Club went a step ahead. They engaged a Songthaew, an indigenous mode of transportation, for the weekly grocery visit to the nearby Talad Thai market, which is one of the biggest markets of fresh farm produce in the region.
The weekly grocery shopping just became more sustainable, courtesy of AIT Campus Sustainability Club
Mapping the relation between electricity access and people’s welfare
Studies suggest that greater access to electricity leads to increased people’s welfare, though empirical evidence is still limited. Narrating the relationship between electricity access and people’s welfare was Dr. Govinda R. Timilsina, AIT alumnus and Senior Research Economist, World Bank, at a talk on “Electricity Access in Developing World†delivered at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 9 February 2016.
JNTUH Rector visits AIT, discusses Unified International Bachelor-Master program
Rector of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – Hyderabad (JNTUH), India, Prof. T. Kishan Kumar Reddy, visited the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 2 February 2016 to discuss the Unified Bachelor-Master program currently offered by the two institutes. Leading a delegation of four JNTUH officials and two representatives of the Social Awareness, Health and Education (SHE) Foundation, Prof. Reddy also inquired about other collaborative programs offered by the Institute.
Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand ties up with AIT
Thailand state enterprise Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (I-EA-T) has entered into a multi-facetted three-year partnership with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), signing a memorandum of understanding on cooperation for the authority’s new Excellence Center.
AIT Open House
For REGISTRATION click here: http://goo.gl/forms/xdBqQcIlgtFor ADMISSION details,click here: https://oldweb.ait.ac.th/AIT/admissions/Program Details are available at this link: https://oldweb.ait.ac.th/news-and-events/2016/events/event.openhouse11march2016.pdfThe program flyer can be downloaded from this link.
Blood Donation Camp
The AIT Blood Donation Camp is organized along with the Thai Red Cross every three months.More details are available at these links:EnglishThai
Global consulting firm Pöyry seeks higher engagement with AIT
Pöyry, a leading global consulting and engineering firm focusing on energy, forest industry, infrastructure and environment, wants to enhance its engagement with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). It seeks a greater level of association with AIT experts, and will consider engaging highly qualified students as interns and for longer work placements.
Inaugural Retreat of the Ostrom Center for the Advanced Study of Natural Resources Governance (OCeAN) at AIT
Detailed program can be downloaded from this linkDetails about the Ostrom Center (prospectus) are available at this link.
Info Session:Yunus Center at AIT and MyVision AIT
The goal of this short session is to provide information on various projects and shed light on potential collaboration between the schools and centers that exist within the Institute at the faculty, staff, and student levels.
UN Winter School on Sustainable Consumption and Production concludes at AIT
Twenty-nine participants hailing from 17 countries participated in the Second “UN Winter School on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Asia and the Pacific,†which concluded at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 29 December 2015.