Since January of this year, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has spread across the world. By the end of April, the situation was improving in Thailand, but there are places around the world, including many of the countries where our AIT students, faculty, and staff come from, which are still heavily affected.
Update on AIT during Global Coronavirus Crisis April 30 2020
AIT Campus Community Received 20,000 Face Mask Donation from AIT Belt and Road Research Center
Thirteen hundred students, staff, and residents on AIT campus last week received 10 free face masks each from an AIT Belt and Road Research Center donation of 20,000 masks.
This humanitarian gesture for our campus community was made possible by an injection of 150,000 Thai baht from the AIT Chinese Alumni Chapter into the AIT Belt and Road Research Center, supplemented with personal financial contributions by the AIT Leadership – the President, the three Vice Presidents, and the three Deans.
AIT Ranks 19th in World in SDG1—No Poverty in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2020
AIT participated for the first time in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, which looks at global universities’ commitment and performance in furthering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Over 850 universities from 89 countries participated in this ranking exercise by submitting input during 2019, and the results were just published on April 22, 2020 by THE.
AIT ranks #19 in the world for SDG1—No Poverty, which indicates a well-deserved recognition of AIT’s work in providing education to students from countries where poverty is an issue, of our research on poverty issues, and of our success in producing graduates who go back home to help their countries eradicate poverty.
An End-of-Semester Message from the President
April 24, 2020
Dear AIT Family
Today is April 24, the last day of classes for the January Semester at AIT. For those students who are graduating this May, this has been a semester that you will never forget.
AIT’s Fight Against COVID-19
The AIT Entrepreneurship Center (EC) invites you to take part in "AIT's fight against COVID-19" by submitting your ideas and projects in this open call. We seek projects that can create real impact to fight COVID-19 within 6 month. Our President has released 250k Baht to fund several projects of up to 50k Baht per project for a proof-of-concept (POC), follow up funding needs to be arranged on individual project bases.
Preparing Graduates for the Job Market
"In order to prepare graduates for the job market, universities must allow students to face real problems, and to learn how to combine knowledge and technologies to solve those problems." - Associate Professor Dr. Chutiporn Anutariya
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AIT launches Master’s in Marine Plastics Abatement with US$ 3 Million Japan Grant
The Government of Japan has approved a financial contribution of 3 million fifty thousand (US) dollars to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand to support the launch of the first postgraduate program on marine plastic litter in the region.
Update on AIT during Global Coronavirus Crisis 6th April 2020
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has spread across the world, with cases in Thailand and in many of the countries where our AIT students, faculty and staff come from.
The AIT Coronavirus Task Force was formed at the end of January to monitor the crisis, both in general and specifically on how it affects the institute.
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Job Security
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The world is now focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the possible impact it may have on human life with many voicing concerns about job security. Thailand Education Partnership - TEP talked to Associate Professor Dr. Mongkol Ekpanyapong, the director of AI Center at AIT, to find out how Thai people can better prepare themselves when the age of AI begins.