Dr. V. V. Pillay, Professor and Head, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology and Chief of Poison Control Centre, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, has contributed chapters in the just released multi-author treatise on emergency medicine, titled, Textbook of Emergency and Trauma Care.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, hosted the 27th Swadeshi Science Congress with the focal theme of “Science and Technology are the Key Drivers to Development”, from 7th to 9th November, 2017.
A colloquium on the topic ‘Is it a Problem?’ was held at the Sree Krishna Hall of School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, on November 25, 2017.
The final year students of BSc Allied Health Sciences, Amrita Center for Allied Health Sciences, Amrita Health Sciences campus, Kochi, along with faculty members visited the Valaramkunnu village of Wayanad, Kerala, which is one of the 101+ villages adopted by Mata Amritanandamayi Math.
In the month of October “Dhwani” (Pharma Arts Fest) was officially inaugurated. The unimaginable grace from Lord Almighty as well as Amma and the magnificent support from the Principal of Amrita School of Pharmacy, Dr. Sabitha M., paved way for Dhwani 2017 to become a great success.
Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), the global leader in trusted insights and analytics for research and innovation, announced the 6th edition of the India Research Excellence-Citation Awards-2017, recognizing and honouring research excellence in the country on different fields and Dr. R. Jayakumar, Professor at the Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has received this award under the “Medical & Health Sciences” discipline. The awards were held at Sheraton, New Delhi, on November 3, 2017.
Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, organised a four day workshop on ‘Design Thinking’, July 10-13, 2017. The resource person for the workshop was Prof. Eric Blanco, the Deputy Director, School of Industrial Engineering and the Associate Professor, Product Design & Development at the University of Grenoble Alpes.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director & Professor at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) and Dean of Amrita Center for International Programs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, addressed Politecnico di Milano at Milan, Italy, on 15th November, 2017.
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, conducted an ISRO sponsored national seminar on “Techniques and Applications of Hyperspectral Image Analysis” on April 19-20, 2016.
Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore, was visited by a team of ten students from University of California, San Diego, under the leadership of Prof. Saiba Varma. The team worked with five students from ASB, Coimbatore and chose Sadivel village in Coimbatore for the field work.
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