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Congratulations to AIT alumnus from School of Management (SOM), Dr. Phallapa Petison, whose recent research paper was chosen by the Editor(s) of the Management Decision and their judging panel as worthy of a Special Commendation of the 2007 Emerald / EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category of Management and Governance.

Professor Peter Haddawy, Vice President for Academic Affairs is working on organizing a workshop on teaching and learning which will be held at AIT on 5 and 6 April 2008, under the umbrella of ASAIHL. The workshop will be led by Dr. Lynne Hunt, who is a Board Member of the Carrick Institute for Teaching and Learning in Australia, and who is a recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

On 28 November 2007, Professor Roland Chin, Vice President for Academic Affairs of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), delivered a talk on "Peer Review and Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning". 

He started with an overview of HKUST's rapid development into a highly regarded research university.

The AIT-AITAA Collaborative Workshop for Homecoming 2009 was held on 7 December 2007. This event was organized jointly by the Golden Jubilee Fundraising Campaign and the AITAA Mother Chapter. AIT President Said Irandoust along with General Dr. Boonsrang Niumpradit, President of the AITAA Alumni Association Mother Chapter; Dr. Chainarong Na-Lamphun, former President of AITAA, President's of the National Chapters, GJFC Internal Steering Committee members, and other alumni representatives attended the workshop.

As part of its new Asia-Africa Initiative, from 3-4 December 2007, AIT organized a workshop on the topic “Doing Business in Africa” in Bangkok, which was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Thailand. Senior officials from the Ministry and other related government agencies in Thailand, ambassadors from several of the African nations, leaders of international organizations such as the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the African Development Bank, academia, leaders from industry and finance discussed how business relations could be further strengthened for the mutual benefit of Africa and Thailand.

The School of Environment, Resources and Development will organize a Special Lecture on Water and Politics in Transboundary Water Management to be conducted by Dr. Anders Jägerskog, Project Manager, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), on 14 December 2007, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at room S101, SERD Meeting Room.

Prof. S. Kumar, Dean of SERD (far left) and Prof. Ram M. Shrestha
(third from left).

“Cities must now lead the climate change agenda”

Joining representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) last week organized, along with Global Carbon Project (GCP) and National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), an official side-event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Bali, Indonesia

The two-week meeting from 3-14 December included sessions of the Conference of the Parties COP 13 / CMP3 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), its subsidiary bodies, as well as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) will organize the second GMSARN International Conference 2007 on "Sustainable Development: Issues and Prospects for the Greater Mekong Subregion", to be held on 12-14 December 2007 at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel, Pattaya, Thailand.

The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) will organize the second GMSARN International Conference 2007 on "Sustainable Development: Issues and Prospects for the Greater Mekong Subregion", to be held on 12-14 December 2007 at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel, Pattaya, Thailand.

AIT’s Golden Jubilee Fundraising Campaign (GJFC) and the Water Engineering and Management (WEM) Field of Study at the School of Engineering and Technology (SET) jointly organized a seminar on Hydroinformatics and its applications on 4 December 2007. It was fourth in the series of water seminars conducted by leading figures in the field of water since 2006. WEM Field of Study Coordinator, Dr. Mukand S. Babel, welcomed all the participants and Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein, AIT Vice President for Development and Resources, delivered the introductory remarks that explained the relevance of the Institute’s strategic development plan, its six thematic areas and the water seminar series.