On her way to the Coimbatore ashram for a 2-day Brahmasthanam program, Amma stopped for a few hours at the institution campus located less than an hour away. Many of the people from the institution were actually at the ashram at the time, helping make final preparations for Amma’s visit and thus missed this chance to see their Chancellor on campus. Amma spent the time with the tour group of hundreds, giving satsang and practicing new bhaja
The year 2009 has been designated as the International Year of Astronomy. This is the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first astronomical observation made using a modern telescope. How fitting then, that in the very first month of this year, an Astronomy Club is started in Amrita! Dr. Anil Bhardwaj from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Trivandrum was at the Amritapuri Campus on January 21st to inaugurate the club. Dr. Anil Bhardwaj he
Research associates at the Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN) led by the Center Director, Dr. K. P. Soman, have published a new book on Machine Learning. The book titled Machine Learning with SVM and Other Kernel Methods is meant for undergraduate students of computer science and engineering. This is the fifth book to be published from the center. Machine learning is a popular subfield of artificial intelligence. A
Jan 15-18, 2009 AMASI Fellowship at the Dept of GI Surgery at Amrita School of Medicine
Students find a way to respond to global warming After viewing “Inconvenient Truth,” the movie made by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Al Gore to educate the world about global warming, students at Amritapuri wanted to take some meaningful action. When the campus Green Friends engaged Mr. Peter Ash, a professional farmer from the US, with 40 years of farming experience to present a workshop on organic gardening, 90 of them signed up to attend a 3
Students at the Amritapuri Campus recently had a chance to participate in a unique activity with their Chancellor Amma. Huge bundles of stalk, harvested from the ashram rice fields, were brought to the ashram. The stalk bundles were threshed by the ashram residents, who separated the grain from the chaff. One evening, when Amma joined in, many others did too, including students who live in the hostels on the ashram premises. Later, they asked her
On Sunday, Jan 11, 2009, students at the Amritapuri Campus attended a talk by Dr. Diana Wais at the ashram’s Kali temple. Diana spoke about global warming; she had had a chance to participate in the making of the award-winning film, Al Gore’s The Inconvenient Truth. The Kali temple is usually the venue for scriptural classes given by monks for the ashram residents; nevertheless, on this Sunday it also became the location for this talk organiz
Synthesis,Characterisation & Liquid Crystalline Studies of AZO, Schiff Base Containing Porphyrin Complex (Research Project CB.PR.36) PI Dr. R. Yamuna Sponsor Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India Centre/Dept Department of Sciences, Amri
Research Project CB.PR.34 PI Ms. Meera B. Sasikumar, M Tech Sponsor The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata Centre/Dept Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Material Science, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore S
The Amrita School of Medicine offers a large number of bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs. Most bachelor level students study for their MBBS degrees. Master level students are enrolled in MD, MS, M Ch or DNB programs with different specializations. DNB students at Amrita have lately won many honors, bringing laurels to the institution. DNB stands for Diplomate of National Board. It is the nomenclature of the degree awarded b
We all have a framework through which we relate to the world. Our day-to-day experiences usually fit within this framework easily. Sometimes though, new experiences may force us to re-evaluate the framework, and maybe even consider changing it, if necessary. Constructivism is a theory in psychology that says that most people learn in this manner. The theory of constructivism emphasizes learning from experience, learning from failure and
Belarus, a small country in Europe, part of the erstwhile Soviet Union, will be the venue for the 1st Euro-Asian Head and Neck Cancer Congress in July 2009. Dr Subramania Iyer, MS, MCh, FRCS from the Amrita School of Medicine has been invited as scientific co-chairman of the congress. Dr. Iyer is HoD, Dept of Reconstructive Surgery at Amrita. In November 2008, he was felicitated at the National Conference in Varanasi of the Association
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