Asha Vijayan, Chaitanya Nutakki (PhD students), Dhanush Kumar, a computer engineer, and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, based at the Computational Neuroscience Lab at Amrita School of Biotechnology, are working on bio-inspired robotics.
As part of Amrita Values Programme (AVP), included in the curriculum, and the SEED (Student Empowerment for Environmental Development) organic initiative, harvest festival was celebrated on January 17, 2017.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at The Spice Valley Public School, Bodinayakkanur, TamilNadu, on January 7, 2017. Eighty-three science teachers participated in the workshop.
Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri, and Cochin Refineries School, Ambalamukal, Kochi, Kerala, conducted a one day coding camp for high school students, CodePRO, on 14 January, 2017. A similar workshop was conducted by Amrita School of Engineering faculty members for the high school teachers in November 2016. This workshop was a sequel to the one which was organized for teachers.
Soorya Narayan, an alumnus of Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore, Class of 2015, visited the campus and offered a hands-on session on analytics as a part of a Marketing Analytics course offered to the students on January 11, 2017.
Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore celebrated Diwali 2016 in a grand manner.
Twenty-two Pharm. D. students from Amrita School of Pharmacy attended and presented posters at the recently held 68th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC), at Visakhapatnam, during December 16 – 18, 2016.
Annapurani R., Intern, represented Amrita School of Dentistry at the first National Dental Students’ Workshop organized in collaboration with the Dental Council of India at Ahmedabad, on January 7-8, 2017.
Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore students had the opportunity to attend the 9th Annual TiECON event, one of India’s largest Entrepreneurship Conferences, TiECON Chennai 2016, from November 4-5, 2016.
Poonam Salunkhe, Renjith Panthalloor and Swetha K. M., students of M. Tech. Embedded Systems at the Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru campus, have been ranked first in the HiPC 2016 Student Parallel Programming Challenge – NVIDIA GPU track.