Amrita students from Cybersecurity Systems & Networks Center participated in the world’s biggest student cybersecurity contests during New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering’s annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (NYU CSAW) games.
An Amrita paper titled, “Design of Spider Mechanism for Extraterrestrial Rover”, won the best paper award at the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICETME – 2015) organized by the department of Mechanical Engineering, Toc H Institute of Science and Technology (TIST), Ernakulam, Kerala from September 3-5, 2015.
International Conference of Physician Assistants (IAPACON 2015) was organized at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciencesfrom October 10-11, 2015. The conference was organized by the Indian Association of Physician Assistants (IAPA) in association with International Academy of Physician Associate Educators (IAPAE) & Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS).
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center(AIMS) has been awarded the coveted British Medical Journal Award 2015 for the Best Surgical Team of South Asia. The Amrita team won the award for its two successful double hand transplants. This is the second consecutive year that the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences received the BMJ Award. Its paediatric cardiology team won the award in 2014 for quality improvement in healthcare.
AmritaCREATE developed an interactive software where learners make right or wrong choices and learn how to avoid becoming victims of human trafficking.
Karshaka Amrita Dhara- an Efficient Irrigation Control System developed by Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks is dedicated to India’s Farmers.
MySangham, an online vocational education portal developed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s research center AMMACHI Labs, was amongst the winners of Facebook’s Internet.org Innovation Challenge in India. The challenge selects top innovators and change-makers whodesign impactful apps or web-services relevant to women, students, farmers and migrant workers in India.
Frontiers in Education, sponsored by IEEE Education Society, is one of the oldest and most prestigious Education conferences focusing on educational innovations. For the third year in a row, a research paper from AmritaCREATE was presented here. Rema Menon presented the paper “New Methodology to Differentiate Instructional Strategies for ESL Learners in the Indian Context”. The paper was authored by Rema Menon and Prema Nedungadi, AmritaCREATE.
Dr. Balagopal Varma R., Professor & Head, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Principal of Amrita School of Dentistry received the “Star Pedodontist” award at the 37th National Conference of Indian Society of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry held at Raipur from October 7-10, 2015.
PhD student John Joseph, Dr. Shantikumar Nair and Dr. Deepthy Menon of Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine authored on a very prestigious high impact journal paper-Nanoletters (Impact Factor 13), the highest impact factor Journal in Nanotechnology after ‘Nature Nanotechnology’.
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