Honorable Governor of Jharkhand, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, visited Amrita Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) special projects hub center in Jonha, Ranchi, Jharkhand on September 14, 2019. She took a keen interest in visiting Amrita's AMMACHI Labs Skill Development Center when she heard about it during her visit to Women Empowerment event organized by the Sevabharathi campus.
Amrita student, Shiva Subbulakshmi (Student in Electrical Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India), collaborates with Penn State researchers to develop brain-inspired gaussian device.
An Amrita team, Jameer Babu (Semester 7 student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus) and Dr. Athi Narayanan S. (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus), have emerged as 'Runner Up' of NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Image Colorization for achieving best perceptual and objective quality.
On September 7, 2019, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, celebrated its graduation day in the presence of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chief Guest Prof. Hemantha Kumar (Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore) and Guest of Honor, Dr. G. M. Nair (Secretary, Government of Kerala, India).
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean of International Programs and Director of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was invited to present the ongoing research and development work on rainfall-induced landslide risk reduction at the India-UK Workshop: Science for Disaster and Emergency Risk Management, held at New Delhi, from August 29-30, 2019.
The Centre for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality (CWEGE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, organized a one-day workshop ''The Dissemination of Compendium on the Juvenile Justice rules for the Stakeholders of Child Protection and Human Trafficking & Trauma Care" in collaboration with PRERANA-Mumbai and IJM, on September 4, 2019.
An international symposium "Integrated Treatment Protocol for Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" was held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences on August 31, 2019.
The Engineering student team from the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, develop a patented wall painting robot, named "WallpBot".
Team bi0s of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, was invited to play the onsite CTF at Duy Tan University, Vietnam, among 6 international CTF teams and 5 Vietnamese teams, after finishing the first worldwide in the qualifying round.
Nitasha Menon, PhD student at Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, presented her study on antimicrobial resistance at the 23rd Evergreen International Phage Biology meeting at Olympia, WA, USA, from August 4-9, 2019.
Ruthvik Chanda (Semester 7) of Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, won first prize at Robocon 2019, an esteemed robotic competition, held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, from July 29 to August 9, 2019.
India's 73rd Independence Day was celebrated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham campuses.
