The Bridge Fund delegation visits AIT
A delegation from the United States organization, The Bridge Fund, visited AIT on 22 February 2006 to explore further collaboration.
The organization maintains a focus on nomadic and semi-nomadic populations that are most disadvantaged and least served.
Workshop could address project proposal preparation
Prof. Sudip Rakshit, vice president for research, is planning to organize a one or two day workshop for the AIT community to learn more about ways to prepare project proposals in a professional manner.
Alumni association announces research grants for master's students
The AIT Alumni Association Research Grant is supplemental to available funds at AIT enabling students to return to their home country to work on problems of national importance.
The association will provide partial financial support to three students, one from each school per year.
Doctoral students may apply for conference grants
The AIT Alumni Association sponsors doctoral students to attend international conferences. The aims are to promote interest in sharing of knowledge and experience and to project the AIT image in research.
Expressions of interest sought
A call for Expression of Interest from lead institutions for a project on 'Analysis of River Basin Water Productivity and its Relationship to Poverty.'
Prof. Sudip Rakshit, vice president for research, announced a 'Call for Expression of Interest' from lead institutions for a project on: 'Analysis of River Basin Water Productivity and its Relationship to Poverty,' which was brought to his notice by Dr. Bernadette Resurreccion of Gender & Development Studies field of study, School of Environment, Resources and Development.
Harvard award honors environmental partnerships
The Roy Family Award was established by the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize public-private partnerships that have attained exemplary achievements in the area of environmental protection and natural resources conservation.
Student Union names leaders for January semester
The AIT Student Union announced its executive committee and committee heads for the January 2006 semester as follows:
President: Ms. Nisha Onta (Nepal), Gender and Development Studies, SERD. E-mail: Nisha.
Switch to new server means downtime
ITServ will replace the existing hosting server (stweb.ait.ac.th, a.k.a. staff.ait.ac.th, faculty.ait.ac.th) on Thursday, 23 March 23 at 5 p.m. This operation is expected to take about one hour.
During that time, student, staff and faculty personal home pages as well as the Web sites this server hosts will be unreachable.
AIT-Sri Lanka relations flourishing
A delegation from AIT visited Sri Lanka 16 and 17 February 2006 to follow up on the already well establish links AIT currently enjoys with the Sri Lankan government, ministries, universities and private sector as well as to have discussion on the proposed establishment of the AIT Center in Applied Biotechnology with the partnership of the University of Colombo and University of Peradeniya.
AIT-Sri Lanka relations flourishing
A delegation from AIT visited Sri Lanka 16 and 17 February 2006 to follow up on the already well establish links AIT currently enjoys with the Sri Lankan government, ministries, universities and private sector as well as to have discussion on the proposed establishment of the AIT Center in Applied Biotechnology with the partnership of the University of Colombo and University of Peradeniya.