Short films were presented at the campus by the final year Visual Communication students of Amrita School of Arts & Sciences, Mysuru.
In order to create awareness of the importance of mushrooms, the students of S3 B.Sc. Microbiology hosted a program named “Mycoscope” November 10th-11th, 2016. The Mycoscope 2016 programme presented an expo on the properties and uses of fungi, as well as recent discoveries about the fungi kingdom.
Abhinand Nandakumar and Srijan Agarwal, B. Tech. sophomore Computer Science and Engineering students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amritapuri Campus, were invited and given travel scholarships to give a talks at FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) APAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia from November 4-6, 2016.
Fourth year student, Anjali Menon, attended the three day Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) representing Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, held at Houston, Texas from October 19-21 2016- a program of the famous Anita Borg Institute.
The Amrita Photography Club (APC) of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Coimbatore campus, conducted a Basic Photography Workshop in association with Nikon India Pvt. Ltd., on the 25th of October 2016.
The third and fifth semester students of the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, along with faculty members Prof.C. S. Jayaraman, Dr. K. Balakrishnan and Kannan P. R., participated in a two day acting workshop coordinated by Cochin Film Society from November 19-20. 2016 at Chavara Cultural Centre.
Dr. Sanjeev K. Singh, Medical Superintendent, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, has received the prestigious British Medical Journal Award – 2016 (South Asia) in the category ‘Infectious Disease Initiative of the Year’.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has become a partner of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), created at the Kyoto Symposium in January 2002, is an International non-governmental and non-profit scientific organization. The ICL established the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) as a programme of ICL by the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan.
In honor of World Toilet Day on November 19th, 2016, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Sanitation Biotechnology Lab spotlighted its commitment to develop integrated smart sanitation solutions for the Indian masses.
As World Toilet Day is marked on November 19, 2016, Amrita is excited to announce that two villages in Bihar, adopted by Amrita SeRVe for sustainable development, have now been declared Open Defecation Free!
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