It is very important to maintain healthy relations between different ethno-cultural groups in the multicultural world we live in. Towards this end, a two-day International Conference on ‘Diversity Management: Views from India and Europe’ was held in Ujire, Karnataka between 26th and 27th October 2018.
Amrita professors visited the Aix-Marseille Université in Marseilles, France, as a follow-up visit on November 5, 2018, and met with faculty members and Deans of several departments.
World Toilet Day is observed to ensure that all human beings have access to a safe toilet by 2030. Envisioned and guided by Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, various groups at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham are working towards resolving open defecation and solving sanitation issues in India.
The women’s basketball team from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, bagged the Champion’s Trophy of the Kollam District Senior Basketball League Championship, 2018-19, which was held at QAC Kollam from November 13-18, 2018.
As part of the Indo-German collaborative project ‘FloodEvac’, the researchers of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) and TU München, Germany, published a joint paper in the Journal of Hydroinformatics.
The Amrita Center for International Program’s flagship initiative, Live-in-Labs®, has welcomed international students from over 20 countries around the world.
As part of a mass effort to bring clean drinking water to over 5,000 villages via Amrita’s Jivamritam initiative, 71 college students from 20 universities in Japan spent 10 days living and working in the Alappuzha district of Kerala.
Over 100 students and 16 faculty members from the Coimbatore, Bengaluru, and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited 13 villages across 11 states in North India last month.
The collaboration between Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Biotechnology and Tata Institute of Genetics and Society (TIGS) will focus on developing new tools to reverse antibiotic resistance in pathogens like Pseudomonas aeruginosa which have been declared as ‘critical priority’ by the World Health Organization.
The celebrations of language and lights were conducted by CREATOME, the students’ club at School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, on November 5, 2018 at the campus. The event was at its pinnacle, elevating the spirit of our mother tongue Malayalam.