The inauguration of the academic activities of the School of Arts & Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, for 2019 was held on June 26, 2019. The inauguration of Vidyamritam Extramural lectures (17th Annual Extramural Expert Lecture series) and activities of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was also held on the same day.
Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has been named as an IEEE Region 10 (R10) Newsletter Editor.
An Amrita delegation visited Rutgers University, USA, on July 5, 2019, to strengthen ongoing and recent collaborations. Last year, both universities had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Amrita Deans Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan (PG programs); Dr. Bipin Nair (Biotechnology & Faculty of Sciences); Associate Dean of Engineering Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar; Department Chair of Chemical Engineering Dr. Sriram Devanathan and School of Biotechnology's Dr. Shyam Diwakar met with the Rutgers team.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) and Amrita Centre for Research and Development (ACRD), jointly organized a workshop on Modelling of Antennas using ANSYS HFSS on May 28, 2019, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus.
Ruthvik Chandrasekaran, a former student of the Department of Aerospace Engineering (2013 Batch), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, won first place in the Georgia Tech (GT) College of Sciences' Art Crawl competition.