India’s first and largest professional body for IT professionals, Computer Society of India (CSI), announced that Amrita University’s indigenouslydeveloped e-learning platform, A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive E-Learning World) has won the Computer Society of India (CSI) Innovation Award 2014 at the 49th annual convention of CSI at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) held recently ( December 12, 2014) in Hyderabad.
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, organized a two day National Workshop on ‘Electronic System Design & Verification (ESLD&V) 2014” from November 14-15, 2014. The event was sponsored by Accellera Pvt. Ltd. and Cadence Pvt. Ltd. and supported by Bluespec Pvt. Ltd.
The Paris-based international charity organization, The Heart Fund, has collaborated with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi to provide free life-saving open-heart surgeries and endovascular treatments for the poor in India. So far, 20 children have benefited from this program.
Drs. Devika R. Krishnan and Pallavi Chandran, Postgraduate Residents of the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry bagged the Best Scientific Poster Awards at the 29th Indian Association of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics and the 22nd Indian Endodontic Society National Conference held at the BM Birla Science and Technology Centre, Jaipur, Rajasthan during December 5-7, 2014.
On December 2, 2014 at the Vatican in Rome, Chancellor Mata Amritanandamayi joined Pope Francis and ten other world religious leaders in a ceremony to sign a declaration against human trafficking and slavery.
On December 6th, 2014 in a packed auditorium attended by all the leading lights in Nanotechnology in India, on the occasion of Bangalore India Nano 2014, Professor C N R. . .
The graduates of the Women Empowerment program from the Tannur Center participated in a Christmas Exhibition, which was organized by the Industrial Department of the Government of Kerala at Malapuram.. . .
International Journal of Advances in Computing publishes Amrita paper titled Design and Development of Mobile Operated Control System for Humanoid Robot. The paper, authored by Dr. Ganesh Udupa, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. . .
A group of solar energy experts from Sweden and Germany visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham recently to explore collaborating on a number of solar energy projects. They represent various universities in. . .
Ammachi Labs’ Women Empowerment (WE) project (funded in part by United Nations Democracy Fund), organized a 5 day “Training the Trainers” Course (TTT) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Campus from November. . .