The Second Inter Campus Volleyball Tournament is scheduled for the 9th and 10th of January, 2009 at the Amritapuri Campus. Teams from all 5 campuses will participate. They are expected to arrive on Thursday, January 8th, and compete over the following two days. The winning team(s) will be felicitated in a function after the tournament. “Last year, for the first time, an inter-campus volleyball tournament was organized at the Mysore C
Three students of our Cisco Networking Academy participated in the Asia-Pacific NetRiders Skills Competition conducted by CISCO at Bangalore in Nov 2008. They cleared three rigorous rounds of hands-on skills and theory tests and were selected to represent India in the final round. Mohana Dharani E&IE Engg Agasthian P. IT Engg Guptaa A. IT Engg “Some of ou
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) , the world’s largest association for computer scientists and engineers, welcomed yet more members into its fold yesterday, as its new student chapter at the Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus, was formally launched by Dr. Raghav Rao, of the State University of New York (SUNY), US. “I am happy to be in the warm ambience of Ettimadai, away from the bone-chilling cold of New York,” jok
Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose MD, FDSRCS, FFDRCS, FRCS, FRCSEd, Dip Am B has been appointed to the scientific committee of Academy of Oral Oncology and Advanced Craniomaxillofacial Research. Dr. Moni is chairperson of the Head and Neck Institute at the School of Medicine. Prior to joining AIMS, he served as Director of Head and Neck Oncology Translational Research Program at the New York University. In western countries, head and neck cance
Shilpa Dinesh Nair, a third year ECE student at the Amrita School of Engineering in Coimbatore was selected as the Best Speaker of Business English at a National Level ESOL Competition organized by the Cambridge University in association with the British Council of India. Students from over 50 colleges in the country were invited to participate in the final round held in Chennai. They were each asked to give a short presentation on how to prom
Student members of Amrita Sanjeevani, the seva association at the Amritapuri Campus, put up a stall on the ashram premises a couple weeks ago to sell X-Mas and New Year greeting cards. The stall remained open during Amma’s darshan hours on Saturday and Sunday. Over Rs. 12,000 was raised, which will be used to fund the education of poorer students. The greetings cards used hand-made paper, which was made by the students themselves. “We used
Dr. Sukhes Mukherjee of the Department of Biochemistry at the Amrita School of Medicine was awarded the 2008 Young Scientist Award. Effects of grape skin and flesh on ethanol induced alterations in blood — this research paper by Dr. Mukherjee won the PS Murthy award at the 35th Annual Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India, held at the Vedic Village at Kolkata, 18th – 21st December, 2008. Grapes have polyphenols, which
Over 2500 students from all 5 campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham received their degrees today, at the 5th Convocation of Amrita. Nearly 50% of the students were women. About 60% received bachelors degrees, and the rest were awarded masters and doctoral degrees. The institution also awarded several MS (Research) degrees. Brahmachari Abhayamrita Chaitanya, Pro-Chancellor, welcomed the gathering. Dr. M. Annadurai, Project Director of the Chan
A 3-day introductory workshop is currently ongoing at the School of Ayurveda. Participants include international visitors to the Amritapuri ashram nearby. Ayurveda is India’s ancient system of medicine and all over the world today, there is great interest in learning its basic principles, so as to be able to lead a healthy and well-balanced life. Accordingly, the workshop covers several topics including diet, life style, yoga, etc. The workshop
Mathematics has recently become the new “microscope” with which one can understand and study biology. At the Amrita School of Biotech, researchers are studying the phenomenon of wound healing and among other things, modeling it mathematically. Dr. Bipin Nair, Dean of the School, was recently invited to deliver a talk on this subject at the University of Milan in Italy. The talk was organized by the Department of Mathematics at the Universi
The fifth convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is scheduled for 10:30 am on Monday, December 29, 2008. Over two thousand and five hundred graduating students from the fifteen schools of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will receive their degrees on this day. These include bachelors, masters, and doctoral students from all five campuses of Amrita viz. Amritapuri, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Kochi and Mysore. Dr. M. Annadurai from ISRO, Project Direct
Fast Dual-Radio Cross-Layer Handoffs in Multi-Hop Infrastructure-Mode 802.11 Wireless Networks for In-Vehicle Multimedia Infotainment, this research paper was presented by Mr. Sudharshan of ARL (Amrita Research Labs) at the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) held during December 15-17, 2008 at IIT Mumbai. Co-authored by Mr. Jayaraj, Mr. Sriram, and Mr. Ranjith, all from ARL, this paper r
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