VPAA participates in UNU-UNESCO International Conference on Pathways Towards a Shared Future
Professor Peter Haddawy, Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA), this week was invited to participate in the UNU-UNESCO International Conference on Pathways Towards a Shared Future, held from 29-30 August in Tokyo, Japan.
Follow-up on AIT/UNITAR ASEAN Regional Round Table on MDGs
Professor Vilas Wuwongse, Vice President for External Relations recently met with Mr. Nico Barito, Senior Fellow, UNITAR (also member of the AIT Center in Indonesia Steering Committee and AIT Institute-level Advisory Board) to follow-up on the proposal for the hosting of a Regional Round Table for ASEAN Countries at AIT on MDG Education and Training.
MN National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India, interested to collaborate with AIT on several aspects
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (MN NIT Allahabad), which ranks among the top 15 institutes in India, has expressed strong interest in collaboration with AIT in mutual research and consultancy, joint supervision and exchange of students and faculty, as well as through a two-stage master' s program.
AIT welcomes alumni from Nepal
AIT recently welcomed some alumni who returned to the Institute. On 23 August 2007, Mr. Babu Ram Shrestha, Executive Director of the Local Development Training Academy (LDTA), Nepal, visited AIT and met with the Vice President of Development and Resources, the Director of AIT Extension, and key faculty members in the fields of Gender and Development, the Urban Environment Program and the Regional and Rural Development Program.
Professor Lalit M. Johri appointed as a Fellow in International Business by Oxford University
Congratulations to Professor Lalit M. Johri, faculty member in the School of Management (SOM), who has been appointed as a Fellow in International Business by Oxford University.
SERD welcomes visiting faculty
The School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) welcomes three visiting Faculty - Dr. D.C. Saxena, Dr. Roongruang Kalasirisilp, Dr. Ambika P. Gautam who recently joined AIT.
Dr. D.C. Saxena, Assistant Professor at Department of Food Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET), Longowal, India, joined AIT as a visiting faculty in Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology, seconded by the Indian government for the August 2007 semester.
Call for concept notes
A call is issued for concept notes for the Department For International Development (DFID)-supported Research Into Use (RIU) Challenge Fund.
See details at:
http://www.researchintouse.com/
Applications details at: http://www.
Updates on laptops for new students
Through further negotiation with SVOA, AIT has been able to obtain better CPUs for the SVOA laptop. Instead of the CPU Intel Core T2350 1.86GHz processor announced earlier, the laptop will come with the CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T5200 1.6GHz processor.
27-29 November: Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2007
The Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2007 is scheduled to be held on 27-29 November 2007 at the Katathani Phuket Beach Resort Hotel in Phuket, Thailand and is co-organized by Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab), AIT, Thailand and the WIDE Project, Japan.
AIT enters Sustainable Development Partnership Initiative with Indonesian enterprise PTDIAIT has signed a 'Sustainable Development Partnership Initiative' with P.T. Damba Intra (PTDI), a public-private enterprise, founded under a partnership initiative with the Government of West Java, Indonesia.