Category: Outreach and Engagement

WU’s Center of Excellence and Research Center, Research and Innovation Institute of Excellence, focuses on area-based research. The center supports the research to mainly accommodate the demand of Thai Southern locals as well as progressing research that invents new knowledge. WU aims to be the international leader in researching and promotes the research to be the learning process applied in solving and advancing locals. WU’s Center of Excellence and Research Center includes 24 centers, especially the Center of Excellence in Sustainable Disaster Management. This center gathers a total of 27 researchers from each field including Innovative Construction and Infrastructure Management​ Group, Group of Geological Structures and Disasters, Technology and Information Group, Technology and Information Group, and Water Resources and Coastal Management Group. Figure: The Center of Excellence in Sustainable Disaster…

Walailak University is committed to aligning its development with the national energy policy to promote energy security and sustainability following the Energy Efficiency Development Plan (EEDP). The university has established its Climate Action Policy for 2024, focusing on tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the whole university's activities, particularly in energy consumption. This includes reducing reliance on fossil fuel energy sources, implementing energy management measures to decrease emissions, and promoting the use of renewable energy for on-campus energy production, such as solar power and wind energy systems. Figure: Map of Low-Carbon Energy Consumption within Walailak University. In 2023, Walailak University consumed a total of 36,102.01 gigajoules of electrical energy. When calculating the carbon footprint from this electricity consumption, it amounts to 5,013.16 tons of carbon dioxide equivalently. The three building…

Walailak University, led by Asst. Prof. Dr. Warit Jawjit, Vice President of Walailak University, along with faculty members from the School of Public Health, School of Engineering and Technology, School of Languages and General Education, and The Center for Academic Services, organized a workshop to develop the university's Climate Change Action Plan.The workshop focused on assessing greenhouse gas emissions using activity data from 2022 as the baseline for calculations. Discussions included strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, setting climate change policy, and evaluating climate change risks that impact six key sectors: 1) Water Management, 2) Agriculture and Food Security, 3) Tourism, 4) Public Health, 5) Natural Resource Management, and 6) Human Settlements and Security. The workshop followed the framework of Thailand’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP), aiming to build resilience, reduce…