From former faculty members based in the United States to alumni in Hong Kong; from former students based in Sri Lanka to professors based in Canada; from faculty members in Germany, Australia and Holland, to alumni in Vietnam, Philippines and Myanmar; from alumni in China and Pakistan to current students from Kenya; from a former AIT President in Ireland to the Ambassador of Cambodia — members of the diverse AIT community have joined in a global outpouring of emotions following the passing away of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

The Royal Society of Thailand has announced on 29 September 2016 that President of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai was among the four scholars in Thailand that are newly inducted into the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Thailand.

AIT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Irrigation Department, Sindh, Pakistan to establish a framework of cooperation under the World-Bank funded Sindh Barrages Improvement Project (SBIP). The MoU was signed by Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, President, AIT and Mr Aijaz Shaikh, Project Director, SBIP, Sindh Irrigation Department, on 26 September 2016.

The renovated ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’, the historic Dehradun-based Presidential Secretariat of the Indian President will now have an AIT tag. The “Innovation Technology Demonstration Project” of constructing 12 dwelling units for President’s Secretariat at Ashiana in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India will be based on technologies researched and developed at AIT.

The renovated ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’, the historic Dehradun-based Presidential Secretariat of the Indian President will now have an AIT tag. The “Innovation Technology Demonstration Project” of constructing 12 dwelling units for President’s Secretariat at Ashiana in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India will be based on technologies researched and developed at AIT.