Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s new initiative with the UNESCO Chair on Women Empowerment and Gender Equality was launched on September 26, 2016 by the Union Minister of HRD, Mr. Prakash Javadekar.
Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of HRD, inaugurated Amrita OceanNet, in the presence of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma, on September 26, 2016.
A high level Panel Discussion on Making Sustainability a Reality: from Policy to Successful Practice was hosted at the Amritapuri campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on September 25, 2016.
The team of 2012 batch MBBS students of Amrita School of Medicine comprising of Aaditya Rameshwara and Jishnu Narayanan Nair won first prize in the Compos Mentis 2016 – National Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Quiz conducted by Kasturba Medical College, Manipal on September 15, 2016.
The ninth tribal outreach programme ‘Amritasmitham 2016’ by the Department of Prosthodontics and Public Health Dentistry of Amrita School of Dentistry was successfully conducted at Kalpetta from August 31st to September 3rd, 2016, as a part of 63rd birthday celebrations of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma.
An event titled, “Design of Things”, was arranged by IEEE-PES and IAS joint student branch chapter, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, on September 21, 2016.
A farewell friendly cricket match, Amrita Mela 2016, was conducted between the two teams of Amrita School of Pharmacy: Pegasus and Phoenix. The Pegasus consisted of the Pharm. D. batches of 2010, 2011 and 2012, Pharm. D. PB students, and the M. Pharm. 2015 students and the Phoenix team was comprised of the Pharm D. and B. Pharm. batches of 2015, 2014 and 2013.
The Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (Amrita Hospital) has aced the FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards 2016 by emerging the winner in two categories of ‘Patient Safety’ and ‘Innovation in Medical Technology.’
Amrita School of Biotechnology Associate Professor Dr. Shyam Diwakar presented an invited talk on modelling the computations of cerebellum circuits and how robotic arms can employ such reconstructions for movement control at the NeuroMath Meeting.
A team of resident students and faculty members of School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, led by Dr. U. Krishnakumar visited Mathruchaya Balabhavan and Madhavam on September 7, 2016.
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