The students and faculty members of the School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, were privileged to welcome Dr. Senthil Arumugam from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, for the invited talk series conducted on August 19, 2019.
In a workshop on Diversity and Inclusion at Workplaces and Educational Campuses, Dr. Suja M. K., Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus, was a panelist.
Team bi0s of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, was invited to play the onsite CTF at Duy Tan University, Vietnam, among 6 international CTF teams and 5 Vietnamese teams, after finishing the first worldwide in the qualifying round.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru campus awarded degrees to a total of 669 students on the convocation day organised on the 17th of August, 2019, on the campus.
The annual 2019 Sulitest Report from was released during review of the 2030 Agenda through the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) at United Nations on July 11, 2019. Amrita School of Business was the only institution from India featured in this report. Dr. Raghu Raman, Chairman, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, represented Amrita at this annual event at the United Nations.
As part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)’s knowledge exchange initiative and sharing of best practices of Amrita with other higher educational institutions, Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Chairman, IQAC, addressed 75+ faculty members from various departments of St. Claret College, Bengaluru, in a Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Innovative Teaching Practices from August 17-18, 2019.
Nitasha Menon, PhD student at Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, presented her study on antimicrobial resistance at the 23rd Evergreen International Phage Biology meeting at Olympia, WA, USA, from August 4-9, 2019.
Ruthvik Chanda (Semester 7) of Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, won first prize at Robocon 2019, an esteemed robotic competition, held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, from July 29 to August 9, 2019.
India’s 73rd Independence Day was celebrated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham campuses.
Dr. Linda Troeberg, Senior lecturer at Norwich Medical School based at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom was an invited speaker at the School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, on August 6, 2019.