The 13th issue of SAMVIT, the Bi-Annual Cultural Magazine, was released by Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, Convener, Sanskrit Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, and Former Vice Chancellor, Sampurnanda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, in the presence of honorary scholars and guests at the one-day National Symposium on the Storytelling Tradition of Sanskrit on October 20, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru Campus.
Amrita School of Business, Kochi Campus, conducted the annual management festival of the campus titled ‘ASTHRA’, the seventh edition of the business fest of the School on December 8, 2017.
The 5th year students of Pharm D (2013 batch) and Pharm D PB (2016 batch), Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, attended an International Conference on Advanced Pharmacy Practice at Acharya B M Reddy College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, on 18th and 19th December 2017.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Analysis, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, conducted a workshop on Spectral Data Analysis, on December 14th and 15th, 2017. One hundred and four delegates from Amrita School of Pharmacy along with fifty-four faculty members and student delegates from various other colleges of Kerala participated in the workshop.
An expert panel, representing the field of climate change and environment, visited Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore campus, on November 9, 2017, as part of knowledge dissemination sessions of the 9th INSEE Biennial Conference.
An Amrita paper titled, “A Novel Underactuated Multi-fingered Soft Robotic Hand for Prosthetic Application”,was published in the Elsevier’s Journal, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (impact factor:1.950), affiliated with the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society.
A team of 10 delegates from the research group of Sanitation Biotechnology from the Amrita School of Biotechnology participated at International conference on Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Water Management (ISSWM-2017) held at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Punjab, from November 17- 19, 2017.
Prashant R. Nair, Vice Chairperson, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, showcased the Amrita Computational Thinking & Problem Solving (CTPS) experience as a case study in Anna University’s Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “CS6402-Design & Analysis of Algorithms”, conducted from 24th November, 2017 to 30th November, 2017.
The annual alumni meet of the Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, was held at the campus on 23rd December, 2017. As part of the event, a photo exhibition of the Coimbatore campus showcasing photos from the years 1992 to 2017 illustrated the growth of the campus over the years.
