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AIT to help enhance capacity building under World Bank’s Sindh Barrages Improvement Project

AIT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Irrigation Department, Sindh, Pakistan to establish a framework of cooperation under the World-Bank funded Sindh Barrages Improvement Project (SBIP). The MoU was signed by Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, President, AIT and Mr Aijaz Shaikh, Project Director, SBIP, Sindh Irrigation Department, on 26 September 2016.

Indian President’s ‘Rashtrapati Ashina’ to showcase innovative AIT technologies

The renovated ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’, the historic Dehradun-based Presidential Secretariat of the Indian President will now have an AIT tag. The “Innovation Technology Demonstration Project” of constructing 12 dwelling units for President’s Secretariat at Ashiana in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India will be based on technologies researched and developed at AIT.

AIT and UNU sign WEMS licensing agreement

The renovated ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’, the historic Dehradun-based Presidential Secretariat of the Indian President will now have an AIT tag. The “Innovation Technology Demonstration Project” of constructing 12 dwelling units for President’s Secretariat at Ashiana in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India will be based on technologies researched and developed at AIT.

Royal Audience for AIT Scholarship recipients

TWENTY-THREE recipients of His Majesty King’s Scholarship, Her Majesty Queen’s Scholarship and Loom Nam Khong Pijai Scholarships were granted a Royal Audience by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at the Chitralada Palace on 28 September 2016. The scholarship recipients included students of the August 2014 intake, who had just graduated from AIT in May 2016.

AIT’s Shobhakar Dhakal coauthors article on IPCC’s 2°C global warming target

Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal of AIT’s School of Environment Resources and Development (SERD) is among the top scientists from all over the world who have coauthored an article titled “IPCC chair Hoesung Lee: we can meet 2°C global warming target if we act fast.” Published in The Conversation, the article is coauthored by Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Université Aix-Marseille; Ina Islam, Independent University of Bangladesh; Joyashree Roy, Jadavpur University; Chukwumerije Okereke, University of Reading; Shobhakar Dhakal, Asian Institute of Technology; Michel Damian, Université Grenoble Alpes; Angelina Davydova, St Petersburg State University; and Joice Ferreira, Federal University of Pará.

AIT Career Fair

A Career Fair is being organized at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 2 November 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the AIT Conference Center. Organized by AIT’s Career Center, it will feature companies in Thailand as well as overseas companies operating in Thailand.