On 8th July, 2019, a delegation of Amrita's senior faculty members met their counterparts at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Amrita's Live-in-Labs® experiential learning program success stories that help India's villages was showcased.
An Amrita delegation visited Rutgers University, USA, on July 5, 2019, to strengthen ongoing and recent collaborations. Last year, both universities had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Amrita Deans Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan (PG programs); Dr. Bipin Nair (Biotechnology & Faculty of Sciences); Associate Dean of Engineering Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar; Department Chair of Chemical Engineering Dr. Sriram Devanathan and School of Biotechnology's Dr. Shyam Diwakar met with the Rutgers team.
An Amrita delegation visited University of Texas at Dallas, USA, on June 25, 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated at a ‘Study in India’ Educational Conclave and Fair of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, at Hotel Annapurna, Kathmandu, Nepal from May 22-23, 2019.
As part of a mass effort to bring clean drinking water to over 5,000 villages in India, 31 college students from 13 universities in Japan and 12 social work students from Amrita’s Amritapuri campus participated in the Jivamritam project from February 16-26, 2019.
