Kamphuan Memorial Tsunami Education Museum in Ranong Province Inaugurated
Scores of local residents from 2004 tsunami affected communities attended the opening of Kamphuan Memorial Tsunami Education museum recently. The community center and meeting halls are part of the Post-Tsunami Sustainable Livelihoods Program, sponsored by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by AIT (SERD, AARM), Coastal Resources Center/ University of Rhode Island and University of Hawaii (Hilo). The aim of this program is to help improve tsunami affected communities’ economies and give residents skills and resources necessary for self recovery.

H.E. Mr. Pieter Marres succeeds H.E. Mr. Jonas Hafstrom as the next Chairman of Executive Committee
AIT trustee and member of the Executive Committee, H.E. Mr. Pieter Marres, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Thailand, has been appointed as the next Chairman of the Executive Committee, succeeding H.E. Mr. Jonas Hafstrom, Ambassador of Sweden.

Secretary, Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, Bhutan, discusses collaboration with AIT

On 25 May 2007, Mr. Tshering Dorji, Secretary, Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, Bhutan, and AIT President Said Irandoust, discussed areas in which there could further collaboration between AIT and Bhutan and also ways in which we could bring in more students from Bhutan.

AIT and 11 Industries signed an agreement for the 2007 RTG Industrial Joint Research Project
A signing ceremony on 2007 RTG Industrial Joint Research Project between AIT and 11 companies/Industries was held at AIT on 29 May 2007. The agreement was signed by AIT President Said Irandoust and the executives of the 11 companies.

Two new AIT graduates win paper competition
Papers written by two AIT newly graduates (May 2007) Mr. Didin Agustian Permadi (left) and Mr. Kok Sothea (right) from Environmental Engineering and Management (EEM), School of Environment, Resources and Development ( SERD) were among the winners at the graduate level of a competition organized by the West Coast Section – Air & Waste Management Association of U.S.A. Mr. Permadi's paper is entitled "Photochemical smog pollution in Jakarta and management strategy development using CAMx-MM5 modeling system". Mr. Sothea's paper on "Emission inventory for modeling air quality for Phnom Penh, Cambodia" received the special comment of one of the reviewers as the most sophisticated work representing an attempt to gain insight into the air quality issues of a major metropolitan city (Phnom Penh City, Cambodia) based on relatively limited data concerning the emission sources.

Role of 3R KH Highlighted in ADB President Speech

ADB President Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda, in his address delivered at ADB's 40th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors on 6 May 2007, in Kyoto Japan, noted that the knowledge networks, supported by hubs of excellence, will help build capacity across developing Asia and the Pacific to tackle future challenges, and in this context referred to the 3R's-reduce, reuse, recycle knowledge hub established by ADB at AIT in partnership with UNEP and UNESCAP.

The speech can be read at: http://www.

Dean Worsak elected Speaker for 2008 World Congress on Computational Mechanics

Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean, School of Engineering and Technology, for having been elected by the largest number of votes to serve as semi-plenary speaker at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics scheduled to take place in Venice, Italy in 2008. This is the first time that the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) has called on its worldwide council members to vote for three plenary and six semi-plenary speakers.

SERD faculty awarded a 9.5 million baht Reuse/Recycling Project

Dr. Thammarat Koottatep of Environmental Engineering and Management Field of Study, SERD, and colleagues whose project proposal on 'Wastewater Reuse and Recycling for Industrial, Domestic and Agricultural Sectors in Thailand' has recently been approved by the Pollution Control Department (PCD) with a budget of about 9.5 million Baht.

SET faculty receive Osaka City University (OCU) Fellowship for Foreign Researchers
Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi of Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems, SET, was awarded the Osaka City University (OCU) Fellowship for Foreign Researchers by the President of OCU. The Fellowship was established in 1992 to promote international cooperation and mutual understanding in the field of scientific research.

SOM Dean named as Advisor to SCOPUS Content Selection and Advisory Board
Prof. Indra M. Pandey, Dean of SOM, was named as advisor to Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB). Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database for research literature and quality web sources.