As we know, Virtual Reality (VR) is dramatically changing the way the world consumes content online and offline. It could prove disastrous for future businesses if they overlook this magnificent feat of technology.
On October 31st, 2018, Dr. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) was invited to give a talk on “Online Engineering and Virtual Laboratories in India: Learners and Teachers Beyond Traditional Classrooms” to professors and their international office team at the Munich Center for Neurosciences– Brain & Mind (MCN) at Munich, Germany.
In another stellar display of its academic excellence, 42 students and young researchers from the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) have presented 11 peer-reviewed papers at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) held between 11th and 15th of September, 2018 at PES University, Bengaluru, India.
It is very important to maintain healthy relations between different ethno-cultural groups in the multicultural world we live in. Towards this end, a two-day International Conference on ‘Diversity Management: Views from India and Europe’ was held in Ujire, Karnataka between 26th and 27th October 2018.
Amrita professors visited the Aix-Marseille Université in Marseilles, France, as a follow-up visit on November 5, 2018, and met with faculty members and Deans of several departments.
World Toilet Day is observed to ensure that all human beings have access to a safe toilet by 2030. Envisioned and guided by Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, various groups at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham are working towards resolving open defecation and solving sanitation issues in India.
The women’s basketball team from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, bagged the Champion’s Trophy of the Kollam District Senior Basketball League Championship, 2018-19, which was held at QAC Kollam from November 13-18, 2018.
As part of the Indo-German collaborative project ‘FloodEvac’, the researchers of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) and TU München, Germany, published a joint paper in the Journal of Hydroinformatics.
The Amrita Center for International Program’s flagship initiative, Live-in-Labs®, has welcomed international students from over 20 countries around the world.
As part of a mass effort to bring clean drinking water to over 5,000 villages via Amrita’s Jivamritam initiative, 71 college students from 20 universities in Japan spent 10 days living and working in the Alappuzha district of Kerala.