Amrita-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign -Collaborative Project on Electromagnetics
	Amrita University chosen as part of a select 7-Institution delegation led by the Indian Institute of Science to Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Rio De Janeiro, June 24-25, 2008, to initiate Indo-Brazil joint research programs. Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, gave a talk on "The Emerging Horizon of Ubiquitous Wireless and Multimedia Communications".
	Machine Translation from English to Indian Languages, in collaboration with CDAC, in association with Dr. A. G. Menon, Leiden University, Netherlands
	Joint collaborative project betwwen University of Arkanasa at Little Rock and Amrita on Development of novel carbon-Inherently conducting polymer[C-ICP] and C-ICP-Metal Nanocomposites With Unusually High Conductivity for Microwave Absorption.
	Joint Collaborative project between New York University and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences(AIMS), on "Molecular Genetics of Locally Advanced Breast Carcinomas" , to investigate locally advanced breast cancer. This is funded in part by a grant from the Indo-US forum. Project Investigator: Dr. T.S. Ganesan , Department of Molecular Medicine, sponsored by : New York University School of Medicine and Indo-US S&T Forum.
	WINSOC : Wireless Sensor Landscape Detection Test Network successfully deployed at Munnar.
	Amrita M.Tech-Cybersecurity students deputed to University of Trento, Italy for a year-long project
	Joint Research Project with Columbia University on Cost-Effective Removal of Toxic Contaminants From Drinking Water Using a Hybrid Adsorption-Bioremediation Technique
	Amrita and University of Milano awarded a project on Bio-technology research
	Amrita and Technical Universities of Munich and Berlin awarded a joint Indo-German project on Cyber-Security research
	Amrita joins a team of top 15 European organizations on a research project for Wireless Sensor Networks, WINSOC.
	University of California System and Indian Scientific Organizations Ink Landmark Agreement on Global Research. Indo-US S&T Forum and Amrita University to coordinate Indian Side.

University of California System and Indian Scientific Organizations Ink Landmark Agreement on Global Research. Indo-US S&T Forum and Amrita University to coordinate Indian Side.

In a landmark research agreement with international dimensions, India’s premier science and technology organizations, including the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), TIFAC, and Indo-US S&T Forum, and Amrita University, IIT Kanpur, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, and SETS, are together signed a 5-year agreement with the ten campus University of California System to carry out ground-breaking research in globally challenging and impactful areas. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by DST Secretary Professor V.S. Ramamurthy and DBT Secretary Dr. M.K. Bhan with the 8-member University of California delegation, in the presence of Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science and Technology and Ocean Development, at New Delhi.

This Initiative takes the collaboration between the University of California System, with its ten campuses and four Institutes for Science and Innovation, and leading Indian scientific organizations and universities, to a far deeper level in areas of science, technology, research and education.
Areas of collaboration include, biomedical and digital healthcare technologies, drug design and delivery systems, study of emerging infectious diseases, wireless and mobile communication, intelligent transportation systems, telematics, information technology and cybersecurity, technologies for disaster warning, mitigation, and management, nanobiosciences, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology, energy, including a focus on solar energy and bio-fuels, agricultural biotechnologies and food security, biodiversity, with an emphasis on marine systems, water quality and quantity, global warming and climate change studies.

The Joint Steering Committee has been set up for the management of this collaboration under the directions of the Secretaries of the Departments of Science and Technology and Biotechnology of the Government of India, the President of the University of California, with the Indo-US S&T Forum serving as the secretariat and Mata Amritanandamayi Math’s Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University) serving as the convener.

Rs. 5.2 crore from Department of Science and Technology for the project nanostructured thin films for photovoltaics, PI: Shanti Nair and Dr. Prasanth.

With a desire to provide a fertile ground and support for a successful blooming of this landmark UC-India Initiative, both UC and Indian Scientific Organizations intend to provide adequate support. Funding limits have been set at $10 Million on the US side, and Rs. 50 Crores on the Indian side, for each of next five years.

The University of California (UC), with its ten campuses, five academic medical centers, an annual budget of $19 billion, 200,000 students, and 155,000 faculty and staff, has grown to become one of the world’s leading centers of research and education. UC is built on the foundation of distinguished faculty, outstanding students, a world-class education, and internationally acclaimed research breakthroughs. UC faculty and researchers are credited with 49 Nobel Prizes and 56 National Medals of Science, a record unmatched by any other public or private institution. UC faculty and students create on average 3 inventions per day, and for the past 11 years have developed more patents than any university in the world.

PROJECTS STARTED UNDER UC-INDIA INITIATIVE :

• JNCASR's Material Science Project
• IIT Kanpur's Fuel Cell Project
• SETS' Cyber security
• Amrita University's Nano-Solar Project