Amritakalotsavam’13, the cultural youth festival that showcases the varied talents of our students was celebrated with great enthusiasm at the Amrita School of Biotechnology on 26th and 27th April. Dr.
During Amma’s visit to her ashram in Kaimanam, Thiruvananthapuram, Shri Uthradam Thirunal Marthanda Varma, the Maharaja of Travancore and head of the Travancore royal family, presented Amma with the first-ever Vishwaretna Puraskar (Gem of the World Award), bestowed by newly constituted Hindu Parliament.
Extreme weather events may have a very different impact on the population exposed. While a hurricane overriding the East Coast of the United States might cause only a few casualties, a cyclone of similar magnitude may result in thousands of deaths in South Asia.
Second-year B. Tech. students of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Amritapuri Campus, Abhay Sengar, Abhiram C. Anil, Rahul Krishnan and Vivekanand Mishra, recently won the second prize in a nationwide aeromodelling competition.
The M.Tech. program in Power and Energy was begun last year at the Amritapuri campus. Already students are making news, as they win best paper and poster awards at conferences.
With its rich tradition of silk saris, India is the world’s largest consumer of raw silk. Most of the silk it uses, India also produces. But some is imported. Import of cheaper raw silk poses a threat to indigenous sericulture.
“All organisms have the capacity to remove damaged cells from the body by programmed cell death known as apoptosis,” noted Dr. Nandita Mishra, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology at Amritapuri.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated April 7 of every year as the World Health Day. To commemorate this year’s World Health Day, the Student Nurses’ Association of the Amrita College of Nursing organized a series of panel discussions at the Health Sciences Campus.
Ammachi Labs' MoVE project (Mobile Vocational Education) was nominated for a World Education Award 2013, from the World Education Summit.
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Graduates from the “Women Empowerment Project” (WE Project) Fabric Painting Course are participating in a pilot project called “Making a Living.” The objective of the WE project is to help women play an increasingly important role in the democratic process and their communities.
The Short-Term Studentship Program initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research awards a stipend of Rs. 5,000/- per month for a period of three months to encourage new medical and dental graduates to pursue research.
