The 13th issue of SAMVIT, the Bi-Annual Cultural Magazine, was released by Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, Convener, Sanskrit Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, and Former Vice Chancellor, Sampurnanda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, in the presence of honorary scholars and guests at the one-day National Symposium on the Storytelling Tradition of Sanskrit on October 20, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru Campus.
Dr. Ram Manohar, Director of Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda and Principal Investigator of Indo-Italy Project relating Amrita’s cooperation with Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI), visited collaborators of Amrita in Italy.
A team of Amrita professors visited University of Twente, Netherlands. Arranged by the Amrita Center for International Programs, ACIP, the visit by the Amrita delegation facilitates thesis internships, student exchanges and new research collaborations between the two Universities.
The School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, organized a friendly football match, Kick Off 2018, for the undergraduate students of the campus on October 25, 2018.
Team bi0s from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, participated in BSides Delhi 2018 on October 26, 2018.
Ameya Ananth, an attorney based at New York, addressed MBA students at School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, on Corporate Law on October 15, 2018.
A team of 23 Ph. D. scholars and faculty members of AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, under the guidance of Dr. Tarek Rashed, Co-Founder of Civilizology LLC, visited a tribal community in Nellarachal in Wayanad district of Kerala, from October 12- 15, 2018, to test the conceptual framework of the vulnerability mapping project.
Three-day National Seminar on Śakti Worship in India was jointly organized by Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, and Nari Samvaad Prakalp, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. The seminar was hosted at the Amirtapuri campus from September 21-23, 2018.
An Amrita delegation visited our partner universities in Spain and some other universities in the region.
A team of ten members with eight students from Amrita Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, and two from the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering (ECE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, had the opportunity to take part in one of the world’s largest robotic contests at the World Robot Summit (WRS 2018).