A paper from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) was recently accepted for publication in Elsevier’s Journal – Energy and Buildings (Impact Factor: 2.973) – an international journal devoted to investigations of energy use and efficiency in buildings.
A paper on Sakshat Amrita Virtual Labs titled, “Complementing Education via Virtual Labs: Implementation and Deployment of Remote Laboratories and Usage Analysis in South Indian Villages”, published in 2016 by International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), was awarded the “iJOE Outstanding Paper Award”.
An eleven member delegation from the University of Twente, Netherlands, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Coimbatore campus on February 7th, 2017, to discuss potential educational and research collaborations. During the visit, Amrita faculty and delegates from Twente shared their research and academic backgrounds, held interactive sessions, and found areas of mutual interest for future collaborations.
Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore, celebrated the annual Research Day on 16 March 2017. In the event, students from Class of 2017 presented their research accomplishments in the form of posters.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinnarayi Vijayan visited Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine on Saturday, March 11, 2017. The Chief Minister was received at the Centre by Dr. Shantikumar Nair, Centre Director and Dean of Research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications students and researchers won 1st prize in Maxim IoT Contest conducted at BIEC, Bengaluru on March 4, 2017.
Professors Avinash Shivdas and Sougata Ray from Amrita MBA Program, Amritapuri, received the best paper award for their paper titled “Resource Utilization by Pharmaceutical Companies in India: Emphasis on R&D, Labor and Capital”, that was presented at the International Conference for Data Management, Analytics and Innovation held at Pune during 24th-26th February, 2017.
Professor Thor Axel Stenström, SARChI (South African Research Chair Initiative) Chair in Development and Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Technology for Developing Economies, at Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology Durban University of Technology, visited Amrita School of Biotechnology on 27-28 February,2017, to explore different opportunities of collaboration with Sanitation Biotechnology Laboratory of Amrita School of Biotechnology as part of the project funded by Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA), was honoured with the Dr. C. Dwarakanath Memorial Award for contributions to contemporary interpretations of the principles of Ayurveda.
Dr. Manitha B. Nair, Assistant Professor at the Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has received the ‘Kerala State Young Scientist Award’ for the year 2016, in the Health Sciences category.
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