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.
Industry Fair takes place 28 March
The Student Affairs Unit and the Student Union invites the AIT community to the 2006 Industry Fair, which will take place on 28 March 2006 at the AIT Conference Center lobby.
Starting from 9 a.m., this year's event will be graced by highly-reputed organizations such as Schlumberger Overseas S.A., the Siam Cement Group, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Thailand) Limited, MappointAsia (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Solid waste management discussed in Vientiane
The CIDA-AIT Partnership, Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project under the Urban Environmental Management field of study will be co-organizing a policy dialog on Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 24 March 2006 with the Urban Research Institute, Ministry of Communication, Transport, Post and Construction, Lao PDR. AIT has an agreement with the Lao institute as its facilitating partner for co-organizing and carrying out the various activities of the SEA-UEMA project.
Cultural Show scheduled for 8 April
The Culture and Gender Committee of the AIT Student Union announces the AIT Cultural Show on 8 April 2006 at the AIT Conference Center from 4 to 8 p.m. with the theme 'Harmony in Dissonance'.
The Student Union invites the AIT community from all countries to register for performance fashion show and food fair in this show.
Lectures explore spirituality, technology and role of business in the 21st century
On 10 April 2006, AIT will host Her Holiness Maa Sai Lakshmi Devi to lecture on 'Spirituality and Technology' and Ms. Marilyn Tam to subsequently lecture on 'The Role of Business in the 21st Century.
Above: The second of three modules in a leadership development program conducted by the School of Management for up and coming managers of Ansell Limited recently concluded
School of Management trains leaders for Ansell Ltd.
The module was presided by Program Director, Dr. Sundar Venkatesh from School of Management.
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.
AIT extending outreach across Asia
The External Relations and Communications office is currently exploring new AIT centers in Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and possibly the Middle East. This initiative was brought about by AIT President Said Irandoust in consultation with Prof.