Aluminum and packaging company offers prize for sustainability
The aluminum and packaging company, Alcan, Inc. and the International Business Leaders Forum have announced a call for entries for the 2006 $1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability.
The Alcan Prize is open to all nonprofit, non-governmental, and civil-society organizations based anywhere in the world that are working to advance the goals of economic, environmental, and social sustainability.
Institute invites grant proposals
The Open Society Institute's Middle East/ North Africa Initiatives program invites grant proposals from organizations around the world in accordance with its project aims. Those aims are to support organizations and their projects that work to foster freedom of expression, access to information, women's rights, the rule of law, local governance and educational reform in the Middle East.
Snooker room opens at Conference Center
To bring AIT Conference Center up to the hotel standard and more services to the AIT community and AIT guests, after almost two decades, the snooker room has been brought back. Opened on 4 April, the snooker room features a standard competition table and is open 24 hours.
Sri Lankan visit opens new doors for AIT
A late-March visit to Colombo resulted in several encouraging toward strengthening AIT's ties with Sri Lanka. Discussions on a two-year project on sustainable development in tsunami-affected areas are under way; a two-week training program in May could draw as many as 15 Sri Lankan officials; and as many as 30 master's and 25 short-term scholarships may be made available to AIT students.
AIT research and training online update
The office of the vice president research will be issuing a bimonthly AIT research and training update in electronic version. The update will include all aspects of research and training activities that are on going or developing at AIT. The update will also include new projects and training programs that are registered at the Sponsored and Contracted Projects Unit.
Recruiters, students deem Industry Fair a success
AIT students fill out application forms at the Johnson Electric Group booth.
The event gave the chance for AIT students to meet officials from companies, discuss their research plans and explore employment opportunities.
Web sites could provide research, scholarship funding
Prof. Sudip K. Rakshit, vice president for research, informed that the Sponsored and Contracted Projects Office is in the process of setting up a Web-browsing team that would look for updates and research opportunities on the Internet.
Task force to review staff terms of employment, compensation, career paths
A task force has been appointed to review present staff terms of employment, compensation and career paths. Effectively, this is a review of AIT's present approach to human resources.
Gopi Krishna becomes new Campus Residential Service Unit Officer
The Infrastructure Office announced that the Campus Residential Service Unit will take on a new leadership in the person of Mr. Gopi Khrisna effective 1 April 2006
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Mr. Gopi Krishna has over eight years of progressive experience, having worked for both corporate and academic institutions in all phases of administration and project management.
Urban safety papers sought
Urban Safety Arena For Exchange, a worldwide knowledge and practice exchange arena for urban safety, invites all students and young professionals involved in urban safety work and education to take part in sharing experience or proposals that will be distributed worldwide.