For a person who was in the first batch that literally set foot on the Pathum Thani campus of the Asian Institute of Technology, it has been a long journey. Reminiscing the past, speaking about the present, and looking ahead at the future was Prof.

Recipients of the Kurita Scholarship 2018 Award were honored at an award ceremony organized at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 24 August 2018. Mr. Toshiyuki Nakai, President of the Kurita Water and Environment Foundation (KWEF) handed over award certificates to Divakar Thapaliya of Nepal, and Withanage Buddhima Sharmane Siriweera of Sri Lanka.

Financial Times (Sri Lanka) and the Colombo Telegraph have a full-page article based on an interview with AIT President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai. The article written by W A Wijewardena, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, delves on Prof.

Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) of Thailand will depute 24 students to AIT to pursue higher education in the fields of energy and information and communication technologies. This will include five master’s and one doctoral student every year during the next four years.

Prof. Joyashree Roy has joined the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) as the Bangabandhu Chair Professor.

The Bangabandhu Chair on Sustainable Energy was formally inaugurated on 15 March 2018 following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh.

Computers and Structures Inc (CSI), world’s leading structural and earthquake engineering software developer, has proposed the establishment of a CSI Chair at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) for Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai. Mr. Ashraf Habibullah, CSI President and CEO, committed an annual fund of $30,000 for an initial period of two years, but perpetually renewable to support his future professional activities and research.

The Geoinformatics Center of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has prepared change detection maps to help disaster rescue and relief operations following the Lombok earthquake in Indonesia. A Disaster Charter was activated on 6 August 2018 after the second earthquake of 6.9 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Lombok.

AIT student Hayat Ullah has been awarded the 2017 International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) Scholar Award. Hayat Ullah received the award certificate from Dr.Thomas Oberthür, Director, IPNI (Southeast Asia Program) at a function organized at AIT on 9 August 2018.

Conferring the award, Dr. Thomas Oberthür complimented Hayat Ullah stating that the award is competitive as the submissions undergo a rigorous review and selection process.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is the gateway for students to become global citizens. While in the past, the Institute was an agency for regional development, today it has emerged as a platform for global cooperation. These were the welcome remarks of AIT President Prof.