Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham faculty member, Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA), attended the Second International Conference on Integrative Medicine: Role of Yoga and Ayurveda on the theme “Role of Yoga and Ayurveda in Pain and Addiction Management”.
The 71st Independence of India was celebrated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on August 15, 2017.
The AmritaCREATE Team of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, is one of eight semifinalists advancing in the $7 million Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The Adult Literacy XPRIZE is a global competition, challenging teams to develop a mobile application for existing smart devices that results in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has authored an article on Medical Virtual Patient Simulator (MedSim), which was featured as a cover story on Computer Society of India’s CSI Communications magazine of Computer Society of India (CSI) in its August 2017 issue with the theme, “ICT in Healthcare”.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham faculty member, Dr. Sreekala C. O., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri, participated in a five day, intensive workshop, from 18th to 22nd July, 2017, conducted by the American Chemical Society Global Chemists’ Code of Ethics Science & Technology Leadership Institutes Program (ACS GCCE STLIP).
The students in Amrita Rural Education Centers across the country celebrated Vriksh Raksha Bandhan on August 7, 2017. They pledged to protect the environment on day of Raksha Bandhan, an annual rite celebrated by Indians by tying a thread or amulet on the wrist as a form of ritual protection.
Dr. Purushothaman Damodaran, Professor and Chair, Dept. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Northern Illinois University (NIU), and Dr. Shanti Muthuswamy, Associate Professor, Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University (NIU), visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham campuses at Kochi, Amritapuri and Coimbatore on 17th, 18th and 19th July, 2017.
Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri announces the results of the Entrance Examinations – Ayurveda 2017.
Dr. Eric Blanco, the Deputy Director, School of Industrial Engineering and the Associate Professor, Product Design & Development at the University of Grenoble Alpes, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on 18th and 19th July, 2017.
Amrita Samyogam 2017, an International Conference on Integrative Ayurveda and Modern Medicine was held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on August 6-7. 2017. The conference was attended by more than 1000 delegates representing Ayurveda, Modern Medicine and Modern Science.