The Amrita Live-in-Labs® program has won the “Innovation by Private University’ award at the 14th World Education Summit, organised by Elets at New Delhi from August 9-10, 2019.
Prof. Bhavani Rao R., UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) and Director of AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Multi Modal Applications Using Computer & Human Interaction Labs, was an invited speaker and panelist at the the Third European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Pilsen, Czech Republic, at the Park Hotel Congress Center, from July 23-26, 2019.
Amrita Hospital, Kochi, received Kerala State Pollution Control Board’s Best Environmental Practice Award 2019 in the hospital sector for its sustained efforts to control pollution and environmental protection. Amrita Hospital has been conferred this award for the fifth consecutive year.
Amrita School of Dentistry has been ranked 17th among the Dental Colleges in India, and 8th among the Private Dental Colleges in the country, as per the INDIA TODAY survey of the BEST 40 DENTAL COLLEGES of the nation released on May 20, 2019.
Dr. Ravi Varma, Professor Emeritus, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, and Dr. Beena Varma, Professor and HOD, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, School of Dentistry, Amrita Health Sciences, Kochi, received the Indian Dental Association (IDA) Excellence Award 2019 for their contribution to the field of Dentistry.
The Department of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, secured the following awards at the 9th Annual State Conference of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, Kerala Chapter conducted on 10th March 2019 at Broad Bean Hotel, Kochi.
Dr. Maya Mahajan, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus, received Kovai Wonder Woman Award 2019 from The Indian Express and Kovai Wonder Women groups for her contribution towards society and the environment.
Amrita Learning App, a finalist in the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition, emerged as a winner in its final phase amongst 108 other registered teams and was adjudged to be providing one of the best ways to accelerate adult literacy in the US using mobile solutions.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, has given Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham the title of ‘Centre of Excellence in Tribal Empowerment through Digital Inclusion’ on October 9, 2018.
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.
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