The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Analysis, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, conducted a workshop on Spectral Data Analysis, on December 14th and 15th, 2017. One hundred and four delegates from Amrita School of Pharmacy along with fifty-four faculty members and student delegates from various other colleges of Kerala participated in the workshop.
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.
The department of Orthodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, was awarded the best Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics Department of the year 2017, during the 10th International Dental Students Conference 2017, organised by Dental Students Welfare Association of India, hosted by St. Gregorios Dental College, Ernakulam, during December 15 – 16, 2017.
In an endeavor to protect and contribute to Mother Earth, the students of Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi Campus (DOM-Kochi), planted saplings on November 1, 2017, the day which is celebrated as ‘Kerala Piravi Dinam.’
The articles authored by Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi, are featured in the November and December 2017 issues of CSI Communications magazine of Computer Society of India (CSI).
Dr. Manzoor Koyakutty, Professor of Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was awarded the ‘Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc)’ during the 87th Annual Meeting of the Academy held at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, on December 9, 2017.
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.
The final year students of BSc Allied Health Sciences, Amrita Center for Allied Health Sciences, Amrita Health Sciences campus, Kochi, along with faculty members visited the Valaramkunnu village of Wayanad, Kerala, which is one of the 101+ villages adopted by Mata Amritanandamayi Math.