Students from Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Columbia University, visited Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for a ten day spiritual retreat from December 20, 2016 to December 30, 2016.
Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amritapuri campus organized a 2 day expert training session on Security Audit by Joerg Simon and Fabian Affolter who are international trainers in security auditing.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications students and researchers won 1st prize in Maxim IoT Contest conducted at BIEC, Bengaluru on March 4, 2017.
Mr. Gopakumar V., the Faculty Associate, and Ms. Sneha Govindrajan, a student (Class of 2017) from Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore (ASB Coimbatore), attended the two-day national workshop on ‘Innovating Fish Market Chains for Urban Food Security’, held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru from 11-12 February, 2017.
The Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT)’s Annual Sports Meet was hosted on the 3rd and 4th of March, 2017. The faculty members and students of ASBT recognize the importance of a wholesome education in which physical education and fitness are of great significance.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with Wayanad Sahodaya, conducted a teachers training program on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at Hill Blooms School, Wayanad, on February 18, 2017. Fifty science teachers from twenty- four schools participated in the training program.
A one day hands-on workshop on MedSim, a computer-based medical simulation software developed Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in association with CDAC Trivandrum, under a research grant from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, was conducted for the final year MBBS students of Trivandrum Medical College on March 3, 2017.
Professors Avinash Shivdas and Sougata Ray from Amrita MBA Program, Amritapuri, received the best paper award for their paper titled “Resource Utilization by Pharmaceutical Companies in India: Emphasis on R&D, Labor and Capital”, that was presented at the International Conference for Data Management, Analytics and Innovation held at Pune during 24th-26th February, 2017.
Dr. V. Anil Kumar, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, AIMS, Kochi, visited the Amrita School of Biotechnology on February 22, 2017, and gave a talk on “Rapid Molecular Diagnostics for Infection – a New Frontier?”, focusing on the molecular techniques used in clinical pathology.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA), was honoured with the Dr. C. Dwarakanath Memorial Award for contributions to contemporary interpretations of the principles of Ayurveda.
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