IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a seminar on, “Power System Scenario in India”, on August 5, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s PhD students Hemalatha Sasidharakurup and Nidheesh Melethadathil, along with, Dr. Bipin Nair, Dean, School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, Amritapuri, published a paper titled, “A Systems Model of Parkinson’s Disease Using Biochemical Systems Theory” in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, in the month of August 2017.
The AMMACHI Labs (Amrita Multi Modal Applications Using Computer & Human Interaction) inaugurated the newly constructed Research Center and new Amrita Makerspace on 24th August, 2017.
The 14th Graduation Day of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, was held at the campus on 26th August, 2017. 1725 students from the disciplines of engineering, business, arts & sciences, mass communication and social work received their degrees. This included 15 PhDs, and 50 medalists and rank-holders.
A one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments was conducted at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Ludhiana, Punjab, on August 19, 2017. The workshop was organized by AmritaCREATE, one of the research projects under Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Twenty science teachers from thirteen schools participated in the workshop.
Amrita School of Biotechnology conducted a seminar titled “Phytochemicals: validation of Mother Nature’s values: A brief glimpse of evidence based research”, on 14th August, 2017, and the resource person of the event was Dr. Sanjit Dey, Professor at the Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta.
Tummala Akhil Suman, 2nd year Mechanical Engineering student, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri, participated in the South India Power Lifting Championship and bagged gold medal in sub junior, 105 weight Category.
Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi celebrated the Harvest Festival on January 17, 2017, as part of their Amrita Values Programme (AVP) and Student Empowerment for Environmental Development (SEED).
Rajesh Velayuthasamy, Co – Founder and Managing Director of Integra Global Solutions Corp addressed the students of Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore on August 24, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham faculty members was awarded a grant of Rs. 37.24 lakhs from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) for developing a novel electrochemical packed bed reactor technology for removing heavy metals from water.