November 16, 2018
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.
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November 15, 2018
Over 100 students and 16 faculty members from the Coimbatore, Bengaluru, and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited 13 villages across 11 states in North India last month.
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November 1, 2018
Amrita’s unique experiential learning program, called Live-in-Labs®, is becoming one of the most sought-after fieldwork-based programs for international students.
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November 1, 2018
The villagers of Mothakara, Kerala have benefited from an Amrita Live-in-Labs® project to design, develop and implement solar thermal powered lemongrass essential-oil distilleries, sustainably reviving a generations-old source of income.
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September 10, 2018
Amrita Live-in-Labs® was showcased as an initiative to achieve learning outcomes effectively at the 4th World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA) 2018, organized by Government of India’s National Board of Accreditation (NBA) at New Delhi, from September 8- 9, 2018.
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July 12, 2018
A team of Professors from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited Ryerson University, Canada, on July 10, 2018. They met with Dr. Ali Miri, Graduate Program Director and Nadia Bello, Experiential Learning Strategist at the Ryerson campus.
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July 10, 2018
Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar, Associate Dean, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus and Mr. Manoj P, Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab. During the visit, Amrita faculty members met Dr. Bob Nanes, Executive director and instructor of D-Lab at MIT.
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July 9, 2018
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the 12th India Education Fair held at Kathmandu, Nepal, from July 6-7, 2018, and at Birat Nagar, Nepal, on July 9-10, 2018.
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June 30, 2018
A team of engineering students and faculty members visited Kerkata and Bundubeda villages in Jharkhand in June 2018 as part of the Live-in-Labs® program.
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June 27, 2018
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education) was selected to be one of five finalist teams for the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation’s Adult Literacy XPRIZE in an awards ceremony on June 25, 2018, in New Orleans.
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