As World Toilet Day is marked on November 19, 2016, Amrita is excited to announce that two villages in Bihar, adopted by Amrita SeRVe for sustainable development, have now been declared Open Defecation Free!
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the University of Trento signed an agreement towards education and research mobility on Saturday, November 12th, 2016 in Busto Arsizio, Italy.
Prof. Kamal Bijlani, Director, Amrita E-Learning Research Lab, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, delivered a keynote speech on the topic “Future of MOOCs in India” at Global Education Summit’16. The Leaders Speak magazine organized the Global Education Summit on 21st and 22nd October, 2016, in New Delhi to extend the message on Quality Education Accessible to All.
India’s very first Centre for Aortic Diseases with Marfan Clinic has opened at the 1,300-bed Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi. MLA, Kerala State Sri. O. Rajagopal inaugurated the function. It is the only facility dedicated to comprehensive care of aortic diseases with full range of interventions, both invasive and non-invasive.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda, delivered two invited talks during the First Latin American Conference on Ayurveda held at Rosario, Argentina on 5th and 6th of November, 2016 (1 er. Encuentro LatinoAmericano de Ayurveda).
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda, conducted a pre-conference workshop at Ayurvedic Point, Milan, Italy, on 17th September, 2016. The workshop, held on the eve of the Third International Congress on Ayurveda, focused on: the future in tradition, the use of Sanskrit in the classic texts, and study and comments on the sutras.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda, participated in three sessions on the final day of the 18th International Ayurveda Symposium, at European Akademie for Ayurveda, Birstein, Germany.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA), Amrita School of Ayurveda, participated in the International Conference on Radiation Biology held at SRM University, Chennai on 10th November, 2016.
Prof. Shyam Diwakar gave an expert talk titled “Computational Neuroscience of Circuit Function and Dysfunction: a Cerebellum Perspective” at the at the XXXIV Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN) held at National Brain Research Center, Manesar, India from October 19-21, 2016.
Dr. Antonella Delle Fave, MD Professor at Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan, visited Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA) at the Amrita School of Ayurveda. Antonella Delle Fave is a medical doctor specializing in Health Psychology.
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