On August 6, 2018, a new batch of students was inducted into the Amrita Master of Social Work program at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus. Offered by India’s only UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, the Amrita MSW is a two-year full-time residential program which offers world-class opportunities in the field of Social Work.
Online Labs (OLabs), one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has reached almost two lakh students across the country.
After successfully commissioning India’s first real-time landslide warning system in Kerala’s Western Ghats, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is now readying the second installation in Sikkim to guard against rainfall-induced landslides in the Sikkim-Darjeeling belt.
MSW Students and members from Ammachi Labs and the Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality were treated to an inspiring talk and interactive session by Dr. Irna van der Molen, Scientific Director at Reliefbase Foundation and policy advisor at the University of Twente, Netherlands.
The second-year management students of Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri campus, had the opportunity to interact with Shri Basant Kumar Gupta, an eminent personality and former Ambassador of India to Italy and Tunisia on the topic, “Universal Message of Indian Spiritual Traditions”, on July 25, 2018.
The School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, welcomed the new batch of students through an induction programme named “Swagatham 2018” which was held at the campus on July 18, 2018.
A workshop on Amrita Online Labs project, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), was conducted at Mithila Public School, Bihar, on July 22, 2018.
Indukala P. K., Research scholar of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been invited by Amrita’s collaborating partner Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, to work on the project entitled “IoT Framework for Modeling, Monitoring and Damage Detection of Natural and Historical Heritage Structures”.
The Stanford University’s 2018 FabLearn Global Excellence Practitioner Award has been awarded to Akshay Nagarajan, Researcher at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in recognition of his achievements and efforts to advance maker education and for his exemplary commitment to outreach, connecting communities and bringing equity to education in the rural communities in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.
The first-year students of Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri, were graced with the privilege of attending “Corporate Theatre” with the renowned Shri. Paul Matthew, Founder & Facilitator, Corporate Theatre.
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