The women’s Table Tennis team of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, led by Maanasa B., third-year, School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, won the championship in Inter Amrita Table Tennis Championship held at Coimbatore Campus, from September 14-16, 2017.
The Department of English and Humanities, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus, organized the release of the book, Gypsy Feminism, Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism, authored by Dr. Laura Corradi, an eco-feminist and anti-racist activist, on 28th December, 2017.
The 5th year students of Pharm D (2013 batch) and Pharm D PB (2016 batch), Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, attended an International Conference on Advanced Pharmacy Practice at Acharya B M Reddy College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, on 18th and 19th December 2017.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Analysis, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, conducted a workshop on Spectral Data Analysis, on December 14th and 15th, 2017. One hundred and four delegates from Amrita School of Pharmacy along with fifty-four faculty members and student delegates from various other colleges of Kerala participated in the workshop.
Dr. Pillay V. V., Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, published his latest reference book on Toxicology.
An expert panel, representing the field of climate change and environment, visited Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore campus, on November 9, 2017, as part of knowledge dissemination sessions of the 9th INSEE Biennial Conference.
An Amrita paper titled, “A Novel Underactuated Multi-fingered Soft Robotic Hand for Prosthetic Application”,was published in the Elsevier’s Journal, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (impact factor:1.950), affiliated with the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society.
A team of 10 delegates from the research group of Sanitation Biotechnology from the Amrita School of Biotechnology participated at International conference on Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Water Management (ISSWM-2017) held at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Punjab, from November 17- 19, 2017.
The Men’s Athletics team of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, was the second runner-up of the Inter Amrita Athletics Championship held at Coimbatore Campus, from November 3-5, 2017.