It was a plain, white affair at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham convocation on Saturday. The university conducted its seventh convocation for 3,392 graduands of five campuses minus the ceremonial robe. There was no gown. No head gear either.
3392 students from all five campuses of Amrita viz. Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Kochi and Mysore were conferred degrees at the seventh annual convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Nearly 200 rank holders were felicitated with medals and rank certificates.
Dr. Deshpande, chairman and co-founder of Sycamore Networks, USA addresses graduands at the 7th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Reproduced below, is the complete text of his speech.
Martin Chalfie of the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.
August 19, 2010
School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri
