Dr. Maya Mahajan, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus, received the International Women Achiever Award 2018 at the International Women’s Meet held on March 3, 2018, at Chennai.
Ms. Athulya Manohar, M.Phil. PG student, Department of Clinical Psychology, Amrita Center for Allied Health Sciences, and Dr. Gitanjali Natarajan, Associate Professor and Head of Department, Clinical Psychology, Amrita Center for Allied Health Sciences, secured best paper awards in the 44th National Annual Conference of Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists (NACIACP 2018), New Delhi.
The TechNext India 2018 awards for Amrita School of Engineering (ASE), Coimbatore, were conferred by Computer Society of India (CSI) Mumbai chapter and IIT Bombay on February 11, 2018, at IIT Bombay, through its Free & Open Source Software in Education (FOSSEE) interdisciplinary initiative under MHRD National Mission on Education using ICT.
Br. Anand Shenoi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, won the 2018 ACM ICPC Foundation Asia Distinguished Leadership Award, in recognition of service to the communities, industry, academia, and students of computing sciences and engineering through strengthening the ICPC throughout Asia.
Dr. Lakshmi P. Menon, Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, secured first place in the National Budo (Karate) Martial Art Championship 2017, held December 2-3, 2017, at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Kadavanthra, Kochi, in the above 21 category.
Amrita’s research work has been selected as editor’s choice for the upcoming February 2018 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Archives of Disease in Childhood (Impact factor 3.27).
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham secured top honours in Computer Society of India (CSI) Annual Convention 2017, for the second consecutive year, held at Science City, Kolkata from 19 to 21 January, 2018. Amrita received 10 national awards from CSI, more than any other university or institution in India.
Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, received the ‘Best Exhibitor Award’ in the Content and Information Category at the Bengaluru India Nano 2017 International Conference held at Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru, from 7th to 8th December 2017.
Ms. Devika Das, Research Scholar, at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, won the Best Poster Award for her work titled “Anti-Cancer Drug Loaded Nanoimplant for Glioblastoma Treatment”, at the Nanobioteck – 2017 conference, organised by the Indian Society of Nanomedicine (ISNM) in partnership with Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
Rubber Asia, a business magazine highlighted the views and opinions of Dr. Viswanathan P. K., Professor of Economics and Sustainability at Amrita School of Business, Kochi, on the changing facets of the Indian rubber industry in the context of globalization in an exclusive interview published recently.
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