Dr. Akshay Omkumar, second-year MCh resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine, won the first prize in the Prof. R. N. Sinha Memorial Essay Competition 2015 for the topic "Toe Transfer v/s Allotransplantation in Bilateral Amputees at Below Elbow Level". Dr. Akshay received the award at the Kerala Plastic Surgery State Conference held at Trivandrum on April 23, 2016.

Dr. K. P. Subbalakshmi, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT), New York, United States, addressed the students and faculty members of Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amritapuri Campus, via A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive e-Learning World) on October 14, 2015. The talk was titled “Challenges in Social Media Security and Forensics.”

Researchers from Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine won Best Poster and Oral Presentation Travel Awards at the International Conference on Nanotechnology 'Nano Today 2015' at Dubai, during 5-9 Dec 2015.