Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) has received two new US patents (Patent numbers US 9826196 and US 9852647) for the National Knowledge Network (NKN) – A gateway to the Global Classroom project on 21st November and 26th November, 2017.
The ‘Jivamritam’project of Mata Amritanandamayi Math has been successfully deployed at 9 Karayogams in Alappad, Kollam district, Kerala, benefitting approximately 22000 people in the area.
An Amrita paper titled, “A Novel Underactuated Multi-fingered Soft Robotic Hand for Prosthetic Application”,was published in the Elsevier’s Journal, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (impact factor:1.950), affiliated with the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society.
Amrita School of Ayurveda inaugurated its ACARA (Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda) Laboratory on December 15, 2017.
Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and University of Milan has jointly received funding from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Ministero Degli Affari Esterie Della Cooperazione Internazionale, Italy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy) for researcher exchange program for a duration of three years from 2017- 2019.
Dr. Indulekha C. L. Pillai, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, has been awarded the prestigious Ramalingaswami Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, on 15th November 2017, for a period of 5 years.
A 15-member team of officials from the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to India, New Delhi, and constituent nations of EU, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Kochi from November 23-24, 2017.
The researchers at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi has found a way to burn liver cancer. They have turned a substance commonly found in bones into apotent weapon that can seek and kill tumour cells.
Prof. K. R. Sundaram, Professor and Head of Biostatistics at Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, received the Smt. Ramrati Lalima Sahai Award for the year 2016 at its Thirty-fifth Annual National Conference, held on November 2-4, 2017.
Amrita Computational Neuroscience & Neurophysiology Lab recently developed a ‘Narrative Construct Sequence Learning’ method based on human capability towards narration of stories. The method was evaluated in the context of online systems.
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