A National Convention on Higher Education, Jnana Sangama 2016, was conducted by the Department of Higher Education, Government of Karnataka on 27th and 28th of May 2016 at Bangalore. As the keynote speaker,. . .
B.Sc. Biotechnology / B.Sc. Microbiology Semester 6 Supplementary examinations are scheduled to be conducted on June 20 & 21, 2016.
The inauguration ceremony of the 8th Amrita MBA batch, Amritapuri will be held on 20th June 2016.
The Rover Phoenix team from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, was selected for the United Kingdom’s University Rover Challenge (UKURC) as part of European City of Science 2016. The competition will take place in Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom from July 23-24.
In the 2016 Formula Hybrid Competition, students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham secured third position in the ‘Hybrid in Progress’ category. The team made their debut appearance, building a race car for the first time.
The Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India has awarded the prestigious Young Faculty Research Fellowship under Visvesvaraya PhD scheme for Electronics and IT for the year 2015-16 to Prof. Maneesha Ramesh and Prof. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
In an effort to understand brain’s disease conditions from a functional role, computational neuroscience and neurophysiology lab at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Biotechnology has been developing computer models based on experimental data of neurons and neural circuits.
By the grace of Chancellor Amma, Amrita WNA team successfully conducted their 2nd Vishuthaineetham event on April 2016. The theme of the event was ‘To reduce your carbon foot print.’’
Every week Nature India hand-picks a selection of papers that might be of interest or relevance to the scientific community in the region. In this regard, researchers at the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, were thrilled to find that their work which was recently published in the USA based journal Bioorganic Chemistry (Kalyanvenkatraman S. et al, 66, 72-79, 2016) was the research pick of the week in Nature India.
Sixteen students of Amrita School of Engineering were selected to Google Summer of Code’s and Outreachy project internships. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham nationally stands 3rd in the number of Google Summer of Code selects among other universities. Amrita is the youngest institution to reach the top three positions in the list. IIIT Hyderabad and BITS stood ahead of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.