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.
Dr. Anantha Narayanan V., Assistant Professor and Dr. Shunmuga Velayutham C., Vice Chairperson and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham , Coimbatore, attended the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (IEEE EDUCON 2019), organized by American University in Dubai, from April 9-11, 2019.
On June 7, 2019, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham joined European Union (EU) missions to India and more than 14 others and signed the “Green Pledge”, extending the commitment to a number of sustainable measures including reducing plastic use, managing waste responsibly and reducing water and electricity consumption.
Dr. Balu Vaidyanathan, Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, and Dr. Balaganesh Karmegaraj, Post DM Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, represented the Fetal Cardiology Division, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, in the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) at Seville, Spain held from May 15 – 18, 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD-PR) have signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) on May 15, 2019 at the Amritapuri campus.
Dr. Rajeshwari P. N., Associate Professor, Department of Shalya Tantra, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, presented a scientific paper at the 5th World Congress on Traditional and Complimentary Medicine (TraditionalMed 2019), held at Osaka, Japan, from May 20-21, 2019.
The national Virtual Laboratories project of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, along with IIT Delhi; IIT Bombay; IIT Kanpur; IIT Kharagpur and others, has been enhancing the laboratory education of students online for more than a decade.
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.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with King’s College London (KCL) for potential multidisciplinary collaborative opportunities in academics and research.
Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, delivered a tutorial on “Game Theory and its Applications in Networks and Distributed Systems” as part of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2019) held at Hanoi, Vietnam, from April 8-10, 2019.