Prof. Prashant R. Nair (Chairman, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus) conducted hands-on technical sessions on “Writing Program Specific Outcomes (PSO) / Course Outcomes (CO)” and” CO to PO/PSO Mapping” for an AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Program (FDP) on ‘Challenges in Outcome-based Education (OBE)’ at Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College, Pollachi, on November 23, 2019.
Amrita student teams- “Paricharya” and “Vijayanta” from the Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, won 2.25 Million Japanese Yen (Approx. 15 lakhs INR) towards participating in 2020 World Robot Summit to be held in Japan next year.
Amrita Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) inspires first generation entrepreneurial ventures through a one-month EDII-DST funded EDP from October 30 to November 27, 2019. ACE conducted a free, non-residential, 1-month Entrepreneurship Development. . .
Amrita HuT Labs Successfully Deploys IoT Based Crop Protection System. Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, designed a solar-powered, IoT based intelligent system that can be used to prevent crop damage due to wild animals.
Dr. Hisham Ahamed, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Project Lead at the Amrita Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, underwent Advanced Cardiovascular MRI Training, with a focus on the imaging of cardiomyopathies, ischemic heart disease, cardio-oncology and heart failure and transplantation over the period of two weeks at the prestigious cardiac imaging program at the Heart Center, Red Cross Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal, during November 1-15, 2019.
A four-day workshop on Temple Architecture and Iconography (Level 2) was conducted by Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies (ICSS) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru campus, October 17-20, 2019. It came as a follow-up to the Three-day Temple Workshop (Level 1), which was organized by the Centre in January 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Lalaji Memorial Omega International School (LMOIS) have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards collaboration. This collaboration will provide opportunities for LMOIS students and teachers to attend summer internship programs, immersion programs, research related programs and other events at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Dr. Shyam S. Jose from the Center for Transnational Medicine, International Clinical Research Center, Czech Republic, delivered a talk on the topic ‘Non-canonical Role of Telomerase Complex in the Immune System Functions’ at School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, on November 11, 2019.
Dr. Sivakumar V., faculty member and coordinator in Research/Genomics, Department of Health System Research, Amrita Health Sciences Campus, Kochi, attended the 11th Annual Conference of Science and Non-Duality (SAND19 US) from October 23-27, 2019, held at San Jose, California, USA. The highlight of this year’s program was the talk and panel discussion by Swami Sarvapriyananda, of the Vedanta Society of New York and currently at the Harvard School of Divinity.
Among neglected tropical diseases, lymphatic filariasis remains dominant due to its disabling and disfiguring manifestations. One of the disturbing features of this disease is that the majority of the diseased are in their advanced old age and are the poorest of the poor.
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