News Agency: NBT Channel URL: https://thainews.prd.go.th/th/news/detail/TCATG191205100207302 Publication Date: 4 December 2019 Agency/Person in the News: Today, 4 December 2019 at 8.34 a.m., His Majesty the King has graciously appointed Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn to represent him in granting degrees to graduates of Khon Kaen University for the 2018 academic year at the Golden Jubilee Convention Center, Khon Kaen University, Mueang District, Khon Kaen Province. This year, the Khon Kaen University Council would like to present an Honorary Doctor of Dentistry degree to Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Her Royal Highness has given importance to and supported the development of oral health for the public to have good health, including promoting the development of dental personnel and the dental profession to progress continuously. In addition, Her Royal Highness has graciously granted the Royal Dental Unit to be upgraded to a Royal Dental Center and a Mobile Dental Center, and named it “HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s Royal Dental Center”. The Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University and the Faculty of Dentistry from other universities take turns providing mobile royal dental units to provide dental public health and dental education services to the underprivileged and students in schools under the royal initiative, Border Patrol Police Schools and various rehabilitation projects according to the royal wish free of charge. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness granted honorary degrees to 7 qualified persons, the Golden Phra That Phanom Award, the Outstanding Alumni Award, the Sri Modin Daeng Award and the Sri Kalapruek Award for 2019 to 5 lecturers, alumni, personnel and current students. There were doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degree graduates who received their degrees. Both in the morning and afternoon, a total of 7,998 people. On this occasion, His Majesty gave an important royal address, saying, “All graduates have studied to the level that can be called the highest level of education. Each person must have gained a fair amount of experience from both life and study. Such experiences are very valuable because they are both information and tools that graduates can use to their advantage in their lives and careers. Even unsatisfactory experiences, such as hardships, disappointments, mistakes, or obstacles, are still useful because they are like lessons that help train, mold, and refine individuals to be more patient, persistent, mindful, intelligent, and understand the world and life better, which will greatly benefit their lives and careers in the future. Therefore, I would like the graduates to consider and realize the value of all the experiences they have encountered and transform them into strong power that each person can use to create success in their lives and careers.” At 3:05 p.m., Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn proceeded to open “Witthayawipas Building” at the Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, which received a budget for construction in 2016 to replace the old “Science Building 02” which has been in use for over 40 years and is in a state of disrepair, and to support the expansion and development of the Faculty of Science in the future. The building is used as a place for work, administration, teaching, research, and academic services to society in order to develop into a leading Faculty of Science in ASEAN in the production of graduates and research in science. The building is designed according to the concept of an environment conducive to learning, which is the application of knowledge in science and technology to design in order to efficiently use natural energy and be environmentally friendly. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graciously bestowed the name of the building, which means a building that is a source of knowledge prosperity, and granted permission to invite the royal initials “S.T.” (S.O.-T.O.) to be decorated above the name of the building for good fortune. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness viewed the exhibition of various research works of the Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, which uses modern technology. Applying it in science to be consistent with the uniqueness and local wisdom of the Northeast, such as recording, researching, exploring the diversity of life in the Northeast, developing nano-products from natural products for agricultural benefits, improving the breed of Khao Dok Mali 105 rice to be salt-resistant and drought-resistant by using molecular markers to help in selection, and displaying geographic information of tourist attractions in the Khon Kaen Geopark. At 3:31 p.m., proceeded to Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, to lay the foundation stone for the Excellent Specialized Medical Service Center building, built to expand medical treatment and health services of the Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University to be sufficient for the needs of people in the Northeast, including developing the quality of services to be on par with university hospitals in Bangkok and internationally. It will consist of 4 buildings: the Medical Service Center building, 21 floors high, with 6 floors of outpatient service areas, 622 inpatient beds, of which 117 are intensive care units, with operating rooms and endoscopy rooms; The 8-storey medical service support building, 12-storey parking building, and 4-storey relatives’ residence can accommodate 420 patients’ relatives with a construction period of 43 months. It will be able to provide medical treatment with modern equipment and technology, as well as being a place for teaching medical and public health personnel at all levels, especially training specialists in various fields, as well as being used as a place for in-depth research in medical science to create new medical knowledge and innovations.
