Amrita Professor, Dr.Prabaharan awarded Defence Research and Development Organisation's Academy Excellence Award 2018 for his team's outstanding research and development contribution on December 18, 2020.
ShaktiCon is a series of programs with a goal to excite, train and support women from all over the globe to develop critical skills in the area of cybersecurity. It features multiple training workshops, talks, seminars and hacking contests spanned over 3 months and is organized by Team Shakti along with the support of team bi0s and Black hoodie.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Signs MoU with Esri India to Set up Center of Geospatial Excellence to Strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction & Community Resilience
As an initiative to increase awareness on global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), as well as to encourage best practices among the general public, and health workers to stop the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections, *WHO has declared November 18-24 as the Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW).
The Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) made its initial foray into the Antimicrobial research arena in 2014 after having been selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Department of Biotechnology, Government of India for the Reinvent the Toilet Grand Challenge Award, to address the problems of infection and smell in waste water.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has become the first Indian University to partner with European Union's Human Brain Project that has 143 University institutes in Europe working together to understand brain function and develop solutions to better understand and cure brain diseases.
The Department of Samhita and Basic Principles of Ayurveda, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, conducted a two-day seminar “Charaka Tatvamritam 2020”- Parayana and Sambhasha on Shvayathu and Udara chikitsitam adhyayas of Charaka Samhita on a Virtual platform, from December 16-17, 2020.
Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has signed a strategic partnership with Fortinet. Getting engaged with them in their Fortinet Network Security Academy (FNSA) program will bring benefit to every campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
The first international fully online women-only Capture-The-Flag competition named ShaktiCTF was conducted as a part of the Shakti Conference (ShaktiCon), organized by Team Shakti, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s women-only cybersecurity team, on December 4, 2020.
Ayurveda Day was celebrated around the world on November 13, 2020, as a global initiative to promote and preserve Ayurveda. Ayurveda Day also coincided with Dhanwantari Day.
Amrita re-elected as World Center of Excellence for Landslide Risk Reduction for 2020-2023. Since 2017, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has been a ‘World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Disaster Reduction’ awarded by the International Program on Landslides (IPL).
Varun Nair (MCA, Batch: 2019), Heeraj Nair (Alumni, B.Tech. CSE, Batch of 2014-18), Prajwal C. P. (B.Tech CSE, Batch 2020-24), part of Team bi0s, won first place with 6270 points at the Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity event and were awarded a cash prize of 100000 rupees and vouchers from TCM Security Academy.
