In March, The Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality, a department of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, completed a one-month workshop with the Central Reserve Police Force in the Srinagar Sector, Kashmir.
A group of final-year B.Tech. students at the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, have developed “ Agni Kavaj”, a forest fire early detection system using UAV and Advance Computation Technology to detect fire and alert officials as early as possible.
The professors of the Department of Panchakarma, Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri, are developing e-learning modules for a project titled, eMAP- e-learning Modules for Ayurveda Panchakarma. The project initiated on January 29, 2021, was funded by the Rashtreeya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Government of India.
Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri, has released the tentative examination schedule for BAMS and MD/MS programs.
Three students of the 2020-22 batch of the Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri (Kollam), worked as interns at Learnovate, an E-Commerce company based in Pune, which deals with selling and buying books.
Amrita Center for Cyber Security Systems and Networks organized the InCTF Junior Security Contest for senior school children nationwide. The event took place virtually this year owing to the pandemic – without an iota of reduction in spirits!
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.
The use of locally available ingredients which are rich in fibre is diminishing in Kerala leading to an upsurge in the number of type 2 diabetes. There exists a myth that consuming parboiled varieties of rice leads to an increase in blood sugar levels. But the nutritional content present in these and its effect on lifestyle diseases has been ignored. To highlight the importance of the readily and locally available ingredients used decades ago in Kerala, a study was conducted to explore its health benefits in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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.
