Dr. Anirban Banerjee, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay addressed the students and faculty of Amrita School of Biotechnology on March 2, 2015. His seminar was titled “Molecular Basis of Group B Streptococcal Pathogenesis: The Hidden Facts”.
A workshop for the Amrita Online Labs project (OLabs) was held at PGM Boys and Girls’ High School, Pandalam, Kerala on the 6th February 2015. Thirty-nine Science teachers from the school participated and had a unique opportunity to experience the virtual labs through a demonstration organized by AmritaCREATE.
AmritaCREATE launched Amrita Online Labs Teachers Training programme at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam, Ettimadai Campus on 24 January 2015.
The Honorable Chief Minister of Kerala, Sri. Oommen Chandy, inaugurated the Amrita Advanced Center for Robotic Surgery on March 02, 2015 at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.
Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi announces the results of the Final Professional M. B. B. S. Degree Examination – January 2015. Results can be viewed here.
Dr. B. Ranganathan, Associate Professor at the department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi was conferred with the APP Young Achiever Award during the Fourth Annual National Convention of the Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) held on January 31, 2015 at Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
Dr. Manitha Nair (Assistant Professor), Annapoorna Mohandas (PhD Scholar) and Dr. Arun Kumar R (Researcher) of Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Kochi won awards at BiTERM 2015, an Indo–Australian Conference on Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery System & Regenerative Medicine, organized by the Department of Chemistry, Anna University, Chennai.
Amrita Center For Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine (ACNS) at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Campus (AIMS), Kochi is organizing a one day program Nanotech-Molecular Medicine Student Open House on March 28, 2015.
The Amrita ABB Robotics Lab, the first of its kind by an Indian university, was inaugurated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham(Amritapuri Campus) on February 25th by Shri. P. K. Kunhalikutty, Minister of Industries and IT, Government of Kerala. The state of the art lab is expected to herald a new era for robotics research and academics in India. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AMMACHI Labs has collaborated with ABB Robotics for setting up the Robotics Research Lab with two ROS-Industrial robots.
Dr. Sasi K. Kottayil, Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus was honored with a commendation certificate by the editorial board of Energy, in recognition for his outstanding contributions to the quality of the journal.