Mr. Shashi Arvind Kumar, a student of the 2018 batch of MBA-MS programme at Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru, participated in the technical session of the International Conference on Climate Finance (ICCF) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 27-28, 2018.
Dr. Mridula Mohan, final year PG trainee in the Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, won the Best Paper Award in the Scientific Presentations category at the 26th National Conference of the Indian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologists (IAOMP) held at Bhubaneswar (Odisha), from November 17-19, 2017.
Two students from the Amrita School of Pharmacy participated and won third prize in ‘LIZQUIZ 2018; an intercollegiate quiz Competition organized by Lisie Hospital, Ernakulam on January 20, 2018.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the Defence industrial major, L&T, were awarded the TDF certificate on 18th January, 2018, by Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman in Chennai. L&T in collaboration with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will develop the light weight bullet proof materials for the Indian Army.
Sudarsan S, a final year student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, co-authored a paper titled, “Detection of a Westward Hotspot Offset in the Atmosphere of Hot Gas Giant CoRoT-2b”, which was published in the Nature Astronomy journal, on January 22, 2018.
Amrita’s research work has been selected as editor’s choice for the upcoming February 2018 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Archives of Disease in Childhood (Impact factor 3.27).
The department of Visual Communication of School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, organized a puppetry workshop from January 23-24, 2018.
Ajmal Nazar, second-year B.Tech. student in Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amritapuri, won two gold medals and a bronze medal in the National Roller Skating Championship 2017 held at Central Stadium, Trivandrum, from January 19-21, 2018.
The National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (NSFMFP), in collaboration with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized the 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP – 2017) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala, from December 14-16, 2017.
Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, attended a National Seminar on ‘Role of Autonomy and Quality Assurance’ at M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women (Autonomous), Chennai, on January 23, 2018.