Dr. Millind Pimprikar, founder and chairman of CANEUS (Canada, Europe, US), an international organization that fosters the development of Micro-Nano-Technologies (MNT) for aerospace and defense applications headquartered in Montreal (Canada), recently visited the Amritapuri and Kochi campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from December 3rd – 4th, 2015.
Rahul Krishnan, Project Associate & PhD student, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri, presented research papers at the 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies)- MOBIHEALTH 2015 held fromOctober 14-16 at London, Great Britain.
Prof. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE, was an invited speaker at the Vatican conference on “Children and Sustainable Development: Challenge for Education”, held November 13-15, 2015 at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She presented Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita RITE (Rural India Tablet enhanced Education) model that was inspired and guided by Chancellor Amma’s vision to provide both ‘education for making a living’ and ‘education for life’ skills.
Amrita students from Cybersecurity Systems & Networks Center participated in the world’s biggest student cybersecurity contests during New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering’s annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (NYU CSAW) games.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York extended their decade-long partnership by signing a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further expand and deepen their collaboration. The MoU was signed by Dr. Satish Tripathi, President of University at Buffalo, and Dr. Venkat Rangan, Vice-Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, at the Coimbatore campus of Amrita on October 29th, 2015.
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center(AIMS) has been awarded the coveted British Medical Journal Award 2015 for the Best Surgical Team of South Asia. The Amrita team won the award for its two successful double hand transplants. This is the second consecutive year that the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences received the BMJ Award. Its paediatric cardiology team won the award in 2014 for quality improvement in healthcare.
Frontiers in Education, sponsored by IEEE Education Society, is one of the oldest and most prestigious Education conferences focusing on educational innovations. For the third year in a row, a research paper from AmritaCREATE was presented here. Rema Menon presented the paper “New Methodology to Differentiate Instructional Strategies for ESL Learners in the Indian Context”. The paper was authored by Rema Menon and Prema Nedungadi, AmritaCREATE.
For many villagers in India, collecting and carrying water is part of their daily routine. However, villagers often have to walk several kilometers to collect water necessary for themselves and their families, sometimes walking several times a day. Many villagers, especially women, collect and carry between 200 and 500 liters of water per day for their families and cattle.
Many villages in India do not have access to electricity. Villages that do receive power, do so intermittently and with frequent disruption, making the supply of electricity unreliable. Komalikudi, a tribal settlement in Kerala well-known for its abundant natural resources, is one such village.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has been hosting the world’s prestigious and largest collegiate programming contest, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), for the past 11 years. This “Olympics of programming contest” attracts worldwide participation every year from students of computer science and engineering. Over these past eleven years, the participation has increased multiple times, reaching 1500+ teams this year. From 240+ institutions across the country, 4500+ talented brains will complete in this contest on Sunday, the 11th of October. Four to five algorithmic problems will be posted for the contest of 3 hours duration. The contest is hosted in CodeChef.com one of the best learning platforms for competitive programming aspirants. To a great extent, CodeChef has contributed in the growth of competitive programming culture in India.
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