The United Nations has officially made Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India’s first-ever UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment. The official bestowing of the UNESCO Chair took place before an audience of 8,000 people during a spiritual programme of the University’s Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in Paris on October 30, 2016.
A workshop on ‘Broadcast Media in India – Program Production and Management’ was organized by the department of Visual Communication of School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 26, 2016. Dr. Niranjan Vanalli, Professor, Writer and Freelance Journalist, Registrar, Music University, Mysore, was the resource person of the session.
On 27th October, 2016, a one-day national workshop on ‘IPv6 on IoT’ was conducted by Mr. Baldev Krishnamurthy, Founder and Managing Director, A2B2 IT Services Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru.
On 26th October 2016, Mr. Gopalakrishnan, a Chartered Accountant from Mysore, gave a technical talk on Goods and Services Tax (GST) at the Department of Management and Commerce, School of Arts and Sciences, Mysyuru.
A workshop on ‘Advertising – Creativity, Media and Business’ was organized for students of B. Sc. (VM) (Semester III and V) of the by the department of Visual Communication, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 22, 2016.
On 7th October, 2016, a talk on IoT was conducted by Dr. Veena M. N., Associate Professor, PES College of Engineering, Mandya. During the session, she had observed the IoT (Internet of Things) to be the physical world itself which had become a type of information system.
On 6th October, 2016, a workshop on Cloud Computing was held by Mr. Pratik Pai, Director, Product and Research, LogicHive Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, addressed graduands at the 13thConvocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at Coimbatore campus on 21st August, 2016. Reproduced below, is the complete text of his speech.
Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Vice-Chairman, Mata Amritanandamayi Math and President, Board of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, recently addressed faculty, staff and students at the 13th convocation ceremony held at Coimbatore campus on August 21, 2016.
Students from all disciplines across five campuses received degrees, including 36 PhD’s and 100 medal winners Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, ranked No. 1 private university in India by global ranking agencies,. . .
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