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The project team comprising of ADB, UNEP, UNESCAP, and AIT recently held a logo competition for the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Knowledge Hub (3RKH) project. The top 3 short-listed logos (from 50 entries) as shown above were selected for the AIT community’s comments.

Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran, has expressed its interest to collaborate with AIT in the area of disaster mitigation and management, through its Kerman Disaster Management Center of the University. The center is the only one of its kind in Iran.

AIT’s Multimedia Production Unit Manager, Information Technology Services Unit (ITSU), Dr. Aekavute Sujarae, reports that the new PLONE-based AIT website will be soft launched on 17 September. ITSU expects this soft launch will last for a period of one week.

Following the heavy floods which have been affecting the regions of Tete, Manica, Sofala and Zambezia for several weeks, the situation in Mozambique has deteriorated significantly over the recent days.

Laurent Simon, an AIT student in the dual degree program in Telecommunications FoS, School of Engineering and Technology, with French Institut National des Télécommunications (INT), is currently involved as a volunteer in an emergency operation with Telecom sans Fronti?res (TSF) in Mozambique.

A Memoradum of Understanding between AIT and Speck Systems Ltd. (SSL), Hyderabad, India., was signed during a one-day visit to India by Prof. Said Irandoust, AIT President, on 19 February 2007. The MoU covers the agreement that SSL will sponsor two employees for studies/research per year (starting from the August 2007 intake), leading to a master’s degree in Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems (RS&GIS) at AIT. The students under this agreement will spend two semesters at AIT and two semesters thesis work at Speck.

Mr. Chun-Yih Lin, AIT alumnus of water resources engineering (1975), Executive Supervisor and Past President of AIT Alumni Association-Taiwan Chapter takes office as Deputy Mayor of Taipei City with effect from 13 February 2007.

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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Total Exploration and Production Thailand (TEPT), Total Professors Associations (TPA) and AIT at the Offshore Technology and Management (OTM) Open House Day held on 20 February 2007 to renew the MoU to strengthen the educational collaboration among three partners.

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.

A UNESCO Conference on Ethics of Energy Technologies will be held in Bangkok, Imperial Tara Hotel, on 26-28 September 2007.

Thirty experts from all around Asia will make presentations in the fields of environmental ethics, biodiversity, energy equity, independence and security, ethics of alternative energies and nuclear power.

Ms. Nelien Haspels, Senior Gender Specialist, International Labour Organization, Sub-regional Office for East Asia, kindly agreed to facilitate a series of gender sensitivity workshops/trainings at AIT. The workshop conducted on 31 August entitled, "Gender Mainstreaming in Institutions of Higher Learning" and "Action Against Sexual Harassment" was attended by the Dean, School of Engineering and Technology (SET), Associate Dean for New Development, SET, some of Field of Study Coordinators from the three Schools, members of the faculty, staff and students.