The Media and Communications Unit/ERCO would like to invite the AIT community to participate in AIT’s annual Photo Competition.Photos must be submitted by 21 October 2011 to aitphoto2011@gmail.com. Please read the rules listed carefully.

Dr. Takuo Utagawa Professor of Sociology, Hokkaido University of Education will be delivering a talk on “Future of Professorships” at the AIT Outreach building on 7 September 2011 at 16.00 hours. The talk is being organized by AIT’s Center for Learning Innovation and Quality (CLIQ).

A special event titled "Nanotechnology Portfolio Release" is being organized as a part of AIT's 52nd anniversary celebrations. The event is being organized at Renaissance Hotel , Bangkok, on 5 September 2011 from 13.00 hours to 20.00 hours. Prof. Prabuddha Ganguli, CEO, Vision-IPR, and Honorary Scientific Consultant for Innovation and IPR matters to the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India shall deliver the keynote address.

Orientation Day for incoming undergraduate students will be organized at the AIT Conference Center from 9.00 am onwards on 1 September 2011.

The seventh Sharing and Learning Seminar on “Gender and Adaption to Climate Change” will be organized at Siam City Hotel, Bangkok on 26 August 2011 from 8.30-13.00 hours. Organized by the AIT-UNEP Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP) under the banner of the Adaptation Knowledge Platform, the seminar is targeted at policy and decision-makers, practitioners, researchers working in the fields of climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, gender issues and development.

AIT Medical Clinic along with the Thai Red Cross Society will be organizing a Blood Donation camp on 23 August 2011 in the parking lot in front of the AIT Conference Center from 9.00-12.00 hours. More details are available at medical@ait.ac.

A field course on “Sustainable Urban Water Use and Management” under the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL) program will be jointly organized by the Asian Institute of Technology, Kasetsart University and the University of Tokyo, from 19-27 August 2011.APIEL is the University of Tokyo's educational program to foster future environmental leaders in Asia.

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This 2-credit course, open also to SERD and SET students, is a great opportunity, even if just to gain an insight to a new and expanding area of business, adding to your own knowledge, or to differentiate yourself amongst the crowd.

A symposium on “Factors for Public Sector Reform Effectiveness” will be organized by AIT Extension on 17 August 2011 from 10:00 – 16.00 hours at the AIT Conference Center Auditorium. The program is being attended by 46 senior civil service administrators from the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh, who are currently at the AIT Campus for their Regional Exposure Visit (REV) under the program called “Managing at the Top 2” (MATT2) initiated by the Department for International Development (DFID), UK and Ministry of Public Administration, Bangladesh.

"Orientation Day" for incoming students will be organized on two days, 10-11 August 2011. The program includes a welcome address by the AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust and by the VIce President for Academic Affairs, Prof. Joydeep Dutta.Complete details of the program are available at this link.