Mr. Jean Pierre Verbiest, as vice Chair of the former Board of Trustees and Chair of the former Executive Committee of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has responded to recent developments in a letter to various stakeholders. The letter is reproduced here.
Finisar will be holding a Career Talk on 23 May 2012 at the Asian Institute of Technology. The company will deliver a presentation, which will be followed by a recruitment test and interview.Finisar is a US based manufacturing company located in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
As the academic semester neared completion, calls for unity from AIT’s senior leaders filled the air at a unique campus Institute Forum on 21 May 2012.
An article titled “Made in the image of Thailand” authored by H.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag, former foreign minister of Thailand, and Chairman of former Board of Trustees of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and Prof. Said Irandoust, President, AIT has been published in the English daily The Nation on 23 May 2012.
An opinion by former Ambassador of Sweden to Thailand, H.E.Mr. Jan Axel Norlander titled “Put the needs of AIT first” was published in the English daily The Nation on 22 May 2012.
Professor N. T. Kim Oanh of the Environmental Engineering and Management (EEM) field of study, School of Environment Resources and Development (SERD) has published a book titled “Integrated air quality management: Asian case studies.”
A series of articles about AIT were published in the Thai Post newspaper. Scanned copies of the articles and their translation can be read here:
The program includes: - Overview by AIT President- Update on Finances by Head Finance- Presentations by Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs; Resource Development; School Deans- Q&A session- Coffee / Tea with light snacks
The intersection of energy and the environment is one of the most pressing issues facing countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) working to cope with increased demand for power and stresses on nature.
Alumni from Sri Lanka have raised US $7500 as a contribution for providing books lost during the October 2011 flood. Led by Mr. Sunimal Weerasooriya, President of the Sri Lanka chapter of AIT Alumni Association (AITAA), the fundraising is to purchase textbooks for the AIT undergraduate program.