Dr. Prema Nedungadi, Research Director at AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was invited as a distinguished panelist at the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017) held at New Delhi, India from March 7-9, 2017.
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) at Karnataka, is the foremost Health Science University in India, established at Bangalore by the Government of Karnataka. On April 21, 2017, AmritaCREATE (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) was given the unique opportunity to conduct a live demonstration of MedSim in the presence of the Vice Chancellor, Dr. K. S. Ravindranath.
Amrita Wireless Center for Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus (Kollam), organized a one day workshop on “Opportunistic Mobile Networks” on April 9, 2017. This workshop was organized for to PG students, research scholars and faculty members working in the areas of mobile computing, and Wireless Networks and Data Networking.
Dr. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE was an invited panellist at UNESCO Mobile Learning Week-2017 held at Paris, France from March 20-24, 2017.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean, International Programs and Director, Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) represented Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at the ‘Future of Education Summit’ held in Noida on 7th April, 2017.
The first MedSim workshop in Karnataka was conducted at Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS), Hassan, on April 18, 2017. It was coordinated by Dr. Girish Babu, Programme Coordinator, Professor and Head, Department of Dentistry. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Sreejith and Mr. Ashish Mohan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
As an effort of implementing the vision of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, (Amma), staff and students of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (Amrita WNA) organized “Vishuthaineettam” for the 3rd year in a row. This year, the theme was, “I support One, Green and Clean World”.
It is really exciting for children in primary grades to march off to the next grade classroom with new backpacks, books, crayons, pencils and other school supplies. AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, makes this wish possible for many rural children from economically- challenged families at 48 centers in 21 states across the country, through the Amrita RITE Project.
Amrita alumnus Sugeerth Murugesan has carved a place for himself in the field of neuroinformatics by developing an interactive software to study the hierarchical processes of brain activity.
A six-day workshop on Script Writing was organized for the fourth semester B. Sc. Visual Media students of the department of the Department of Visual Media and Communication, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, from April 3 – 8, 2017.