The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, was in the forefront of the Mission ‘Reconnect’ program, initiated by Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) for the flood-affected people of the Kerala state, as part of restoring electricity to their consumers.
The students of the Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi Campus, took part in an event conducted by Kerala Management Association (KMA), that officially announced the kick off for 2018-19 activities of KMA.
A three-day Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC) was conducted at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, from September 28-30, 2018. About eighty budding entrepreneurs at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, were delighted to be part of the highly-motivating camp.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was invited to participate in the Indo-German workshop on “Sensor Systems for Localization of Trapped Victims in Collapsed Infrastructure” (SORTIE) held during September 17-18, 2018, at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
Dr. Y. Sita Manasvi and Dr. Sreelakshmi V. Menon, first-year postgraduate trainees from the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, won the best poster award at the First Zonal Conference (South) of Indian Association of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics (IACDE) held at Chennai from August 10 – 11, 2018.
Prof. Rao R. Bhavani, UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and Director of Ammachi Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was an invited speaker at the 2018 Annual Global Empowerment. . .
The multidisciplinary researches in the Phytochemistry laboratory at Amrita School of Biotechnology are directed towardthe exploration of natural wealth for the development of novel bioactivities. The clues from natural products lead to syntheses of bio-rationally selected analogues.
Dr. Nisha Bhavani, Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, received the prestigious Dr. Eapen Samuel Memorial Award for the year 2017-18, instituted by the IMA Academy of Medical Specialities, Kerala State Chapter.
Dr. K. N. Panicker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Chair of Indian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from September 24- 26, 2018, on an invitation from NTD NGO Network to participate in the 9th NTD NGO Network (NNN) Annual Conference.
The Department of Physical Education, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, organized the Inter Amrita Power Lifting Championship for the year 2018-19 at the campus from October 4-5, 2018.