Two initiatives known as Vrukshakkani and Vishuthaineettam, envisaged by Chancellor Amma have been launched at Amrita as part of this year’s festival of Vishu to help foster love for nature in the hearts of the younger generations, and to teach them to protect and preserve nature.
Amrita Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) takes pride in having organized ‘InternMela’ on April 11, 2015, first of its kind internship drive in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, the motto of which was ‘to give a platform for the students to experimentally learn the organizational structure and understand the culture of entrepreneurial world’.
Surya Seetharaman, a third year B.Tech CSE student from the Amritapuri campus, was recently awarded a fully-funded merit scholarship to complete her Master’s degree at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Currently enrolled in the Integrated 3+2 program, a collaborative initiative between Amrita and KTH, Surya was one among 55 awardees of the competitive scholarship which had an application pool of over 1,600 worldwide.
On April 17, 2015, a hands-on session on ” Foundation for Oracle DB- An Industry Outlook” was conducted by Mr. Sudhi Gowda, Managing Director, Oracle Foundation, Mysuru. The workshop highlighted the importance of the Oracle Database Foundations and explained how to earn an industry-ready certification.
The innovator Vishnu Padmanaban and his team member M. Ramesh Nachiappan, final-year students of BTech (Mechanical Engineering) of 2010-2014 batch at the Coimbatore campus received awards for their innovative product, “Cost Effective Vegetable Chiller for Rural Small Farmers.”
Vishnu Padmanaban of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, was selected to represent the national member society, SAE India, for the FISITA Travelling Fellowship Award. He also presented a paper at the FISITA Student Congress 2014 held from 2-6 June 2014, in MECC Maastricht Conference Venue, the Netherlands. Vishnu Padmanabanis a final year Mechanical Engineering student of 2010-2014 batch.
Vijayalakshmi S., from Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore campus, was selected to represent India at ESOMAR’s APAC 2015 Conference to be held in Singapore. She is from the Institute’s 2013-2015 batch of marketing majors and has always had a penchant for the subject. She had prior work experience of about three years in mainline advertising from premier agencies in India such as Lowe Lintas and RKSwamy BBDO before taking up her MBA at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore.
The results of Amrita MD / MS / Diploma Entrance Examination 2015 announced. Click on the link below to view the results. Entrance Exam Results »»
The Tentative Exam Calender for Theory and Practical Examinations of B. Pharm., Pharm. D. and M. Pharm courses are announced by the Controller of Examinations, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi.. . .
Nazneen P. Kotwal, the final year student from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was the winner of the coveted TCS Best Student Award for the year 2015.