May 2, 2016
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was represented at VegMed 2016, held at the campus of Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany from the 22nd to 24th of April, 2016. Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director at Amrita School of Ayurvedadelivered a Key Note Lecture on Vegetarian Nutrition in Ayurveda and also chaired a session on Vegetarian Nutrition in Traditional Medicine.
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May 2, 2016
Dr. Akshay Omkumar, second-year MCh resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine, won the first prize in the Prof. R. N. Sinha Memorial Essay Competition 2015 for the topic “Toe Transfer v/s Allotransplantation in Bilateral Amputees at Below Elbow Level”. Dr. Akshay received the award at the Kerala Plastic Surgery State Conference held at Trivandrum on April 23, 2016.
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April 30, 2016
In order to enhance the knowledge of our heritage and history amongst our student community, the Department of Cultural Education, Coimbatore campus, arranged a three day heritage tour to prominent cultural and religious sites in the state of Karnataka, during Yugadi (Ugadi) – the Telugu New Year.
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April 28, 2016
The Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus, organized an International Conference on Emerging & Sustainable Technologies for Infrastructure System from April 22-23, 2016.
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April 27, 2016
A paper titled, “A Real-Time Detection and Warning of Cardiovascular Disease LAHB for a Wearable Wireless ECG Device”, jointly authored by Anjali Arunan (Master’s student), Rahul Krishnan (Project Associate, Amrita WNA) and Maneesha V. Ramesh ( Director, AmritaWNA) was accepted for poster presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).
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April 26, 2016
Dr. Anura Jayasumana, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, USA, visited the Kochi and Amritapuri campuses in early 2016.
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April 26, 2016
The Department of Cultural Education conducted a one-day Symposium on Indian History and Culture on 23rd April 2016 at the Ettimadai campus. The symposium received an overwhelming response from the students and faculty community and recorded more than 400 participants. Amrita alumni, parents of students, and teachers and students from colleges and schools in and around Coimbatore also participated in this programme.
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April 26, 2016
The newly-constructed Audio Visual Studio ‘Amritanjali’ was inaugurated by Mr. T. S. Nagabharana, National Award Winner, Producer, Director and Mr. H. R. Ranganath, leading journalist, Chairman and Managing Director, Public TV, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on April 25, 2016.
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April 26, 2016
Amrita Students won Cisco’s first-ever “Great Digital India Challenge – iDeate” – an event focused on Internet of Things (IoT) based ideation challenge for India. The first prize for the project SMART WATER includes Rs. 2,50, 000 and was awarded to Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore’s Akshay, Surya, Parthasarathy and Murali Siva, 3rd year B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering students.
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April 25, 2016
Dr. Arti Prasad, Chief Division of General Internal Medicine, Chief, Section of Integrative Medicine, Founding Executive Director of UNM Centre for Life UNM HSC Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, gave a class on “Whole Person’s Care – The Role of Integrative Medicine” at Amrita School of Ayurveda.
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