Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of 41st President of the United States George H.W. Bush and sister of 43rd President George W. Bush, officially welcomed Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi to Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2019. “Doro” and her sister-in-law, Patricia Reilly Koch, garlanded Amma, received her blessings and offered a few words.
Sri. Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, participated in the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities’ first forum, ‘Child Dignity in the Digital World’.
Sri. Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, will participate in the Forum to Protect Children Online, Under Patronage of Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
Honorable Prime Minister of India, Sri. Narendra Modi and UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, presented Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, with a special award in recognition for having made the largest contribution to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan during the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, the world's largest sanitation convention with over 50 countries participating, held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in Delhi, on October 2, 2018.
As part of the Government of India’s nationally televised “Swachhta Hi Seva” relaunch, spiritual leader and humanitarian Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) held a video conference with the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modi.
In view of unabated heavy rains and floods in Kerala from late July-August 2018, the Chancellor of the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), has announced that Her organization Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) will donate Rs. 10 crores to the Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF).
The students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbarore Campus, harvested the organic crops that were planted on September 27, 2017, in relation to the birthday celebrations of Amrita Chancellor, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma).
An Amrita paper titled, "A Novel Underactuated Multi-fingered Soft Robotic Hand for Prosthetic Application",was published in the Elsevier’s Journal, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (impact factor:1.950), affiliated with the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society.
Honourable President of India Shri. Ram Nath Kovind was the chief Guest at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor's 64th Birthday Celebrations on 8th October, 2017.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics and Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, trained over 1087 tribal children and adults in Wayanad, Idukki and Attapadi districts of Kerala in Computer Awareness Skills.
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.
The United Nations has officially made Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India’s first-ever UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment. The official bestowing of the UNESCO Chair took place before an audience of 8,000 people during a spiritual programme of the University's Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in Paris on October 30, 2016.
