After a string of super successes, ‘Team Vision’, a student team from Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, added yet another feather in its cap by winning the Rajasthan Online Hackathon 2018, organized by the Government of Rajasthan from July 6-8, 2018.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri campus and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, Amritapuri, participated as Young Faculty Research Fellows of the Visvesvaraya PhD scheme by Digital India corporation under Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India, at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, from September 13-15, 2018.
The graduation ceremony of Amrita School of Pharmacy was held on September 3, 2018, at AIMS B Block 3rd floor auditorium of Amrita Health Sciences campus, Kochi.
Dr. Sabitha M., Professor & Principal at School of Pharmacy, Amrita Health Sciences campus, Kochi, delivered a keynote lecture as invited speaker at the 14th International Chitin and Chitosan Conference (ICCC) & 12th Asia Pacific Chitin & Chitosan Symposium (APCCS) held at Kansai University Senriyama Campus at Osaka, Japan, from August 27- 30, 2018.
A colloquium on the topic ‘Success Without Stress’ was held at Sri Krishna Hall of Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, on September 14, 2018. The session was handled by Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry at UC Davis.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) has received a new US patent (Patent number US9996168B2) for “Wearable wireless tongue controlled devices”.
Prof. Rao R. Bhavani, UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and Director of Ammachi Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted a webinar on Women’s Empowerment and Leadership for thirty European youth as part of AYUDH Europe’s Social Impact Leadership. The webinar was held from September 1-6, 2018, in Bilbao, Spain.
Mukil M. V. and Sreekanth Chowdary Chalasani, team members from Ammachi Labs of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, attended the ‘LEGO Education Conference on Driving Innovation in India through STEM Education’ on September 4, 2018, at Chennai.
The Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, organized a colloquium on Brand Communication for the MBA students of the campus on September 6, 2018.
Amrita Live-in-Labs® was showcased as an initiative to achieve learning outcomes effectively at the 4th World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA) 2018, organized by Government of India’s National Board of Accreditation (NBA) at New Delhi, from September 8- 9, 2018.