Amrita School of Biotechnology Assistant Professor Dr. Shyam Diwakar is an invited speaker at School of Brain Cells & Circuits “Camillo Golgi” organized by Professors Egidio D’Angelo of University of Pavia, Italy and Prof. Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott of University College London, UK. The event is hosted and locally organized by Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice (Italy).
Prof. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE, was an invited speaker at the Vatican conference on “Children and Sustainable Development: Challenge for Education”, held November 13-15, 2015 at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She presented Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita RITE (Rural India Tablet enhanced Education) model that was inspired and guided by Chancellor Amma’s vision to provide both ‘education for making a living’ and ‘education for life’ skills.
Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus organized its Annual Science Fest, Aarohan’15, from November 5-6, 2015. The annual Amrita Science Fest, Aarohan, is an initiative to foster a bond between an institution of higher education and schools.
Every time an elderly person struggled to move wheelchairs, 39-year-old PhD scholar Rajesh Kannan would feel a lump in his throat. Acting on that thought, he decided to build a. . .
IEEE Education Society’s ‘2014 Best Transactions on Education Paper’ was awarded to ‘The VLAB OER Experience:Modeling Potential Adopter Student Experience’, published in IEEE Transactions on Education.
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.
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