The second-year management students of Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri campus, had the opportunity to interact with Shri Basant Kumar Gupta, an eminent personality and former Ambassador of India to Italy and Tunisia on the topic, “Universal Message of Indian Spiritual Traditions”, on July 25, 2018.
The Department of Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, organized “Amrita Heart Failure Update” – a practical guide to the management of heart failure on July 22, 2018.
The School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, welcomed the new batch of students through an induction programme named “Swagatham 2018” which was held at the campus on July 18, 2018.
A workshop on Amrita Online Labs project, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), was conducted at Mithila Public School, Bihar, on July 22, 2018.
An orientation program was held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on July 25, 2018. Around 475 undergraduate students, newly admitted for the academic year 2018-19, were inducted into the various UG programs offered at the campus, in the presence of Sampoojya Swamiji Amritageetananda Puri, Acharya at Mata Amritanandamayi Math.
Dr. Arun Mamachan Xavier, Reader, Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, was awarded the ‘Young Researcher Award’ by a resolution of the International Award of Excellence Dental Awards Council held at the Grand Award Ceremony at Holiday Inn, Kensington High St. London, UK, on July 21, 2018.
Indukala P. K., Research scholar of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been invited by Amrita’s collaborating partner Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, to work on the project entitled “IoT Framework for Modeling, Monitoring and Damage Detection of Natural and Historical Heritage Structures”.
Ms. Sowmiya N. and Ms. Pramothini Sekar of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, received pre-placement offers for positions as Software Engineers from Intuit, a multi-national company, where the students completed their summer internship.
The Stanford University’s 2018 FabLearn Global Excellence Practitioner Award has been awarded to Akshay Nagarajan, Researcher at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in recognition of his achievements and efforts to advance maker education and for his exemplary commitment to outreach, connecting communities and bringing equity to education in the rural communities in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.
The official welcome programme for the 2018-20 MBA batch was conducted on July 21, 2018, at the Amriteswari Hall of the Kochi campus. Prof. Sunanda Muralidharan, Chairperson, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham MBA Programme, Kochi. . .