Students of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri Campus, won major prizes in several categories at the OMRG 2016 Robotics Contest held at Singapore on February 21, 2016. Twenty-one teams from different countries contested in the final round.
On Good Governance Day, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, awarded Prof. Prema Nedungadi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, and Dr. Sasikumar, CDAC Mumbai, with certificates of recognition for the nationwide rollout of Online Labs for School Experiments.
On December 16, 2015 NVIDIA India awarded Dr. Shyam Diwakar the NVIDIA Innovation Award for Amrita School of Biotechnology's work on Computational Neuroscience. The award was received by Ms. Manjusha Nair on Dr. Shyam's behalf at the Professor’s meet event co-located with IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2015).
Dr.Chinmay Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi has received the Certificate of Merit Award for the Online Scientific Exhibit titled "Tropical Pancreatitis- A Unique Clinic-radiological Entity" at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)'s 101st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting held from November 29-December 4, 2015 in Chicago.
The original research by Dr. R. Venkitachalam, Second-year Postgraduate Resident in Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, was awarded Best Scientific Paper Award at the 3rd National Conference of the Forum of Ethics Review Committees in India (FERCI) held at Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Postgraduate Medical Sciences, Lucknow from December 10-11, 2015.
Amrita School of Biotechnology PhD students awarded at International symposium on Translational Neuroscience, Indian Academy of Neuroscience’s Annual Conference.
Third year B.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology students of Amrita Center for Allied Health Sciences, Ms. Reshma K.P. and Ms. Suraymya Babu won second prize in the poster presentation at SILEX 2015- the 16th Annual conference of SAMT (Students Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists) held from December 11-12, 2015 at Medical College, Kannur.
The Society for Emergency Medicine India, (SEMI) full time member of International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM), has recognised the contributions made by Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in the field of Emergency Medicine and has given AIMS an award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine.
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 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.
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.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s IEEE Student Branch Industrial Electronics Society (IES), the student chapter of Amritapuri Campus, is adjudged the prestigious 2015 IEEE IES Student Branch Chapter Award in the world this year.
