In connection with the Navarathri festival, a Saraswati Pooja was organized at Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, on October 10, 2018, the first day of Navarathri.
Amrita professors Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean, Amrita Center for International Programs (ACIP) and Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, Dean, PG Programs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, visited KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and met with Amritians at the university.
Rao R. Bhavani, Director of Ammachi labs, Amritapuri and UNESCO Chairholder in Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality, and Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean of Amrita Center for International Programs and Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri, visited the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Amrita’s unique experiential learning program, called Live-in-Labs®, is becoming one of the most sought-after fieldwork-based programs for international students.
The villagers of Mothakara, Kerala have benefited from an Amrita Live-in-Labs® project to design, develop and implement solar thermal powered lemongrass essential-oil distilleries, sustainably reviving a generations-old source of income.