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Treating the Epidemic
August 1, 2011 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri You could have this disease and not even know it. Sometimes there are no symptoms. Or you may have symptoms like fatigue, excessive thirst...
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Start Your Engines …
September 13, 2011 School of Engineering, Coimbatore … and mark your calendars. October 28-30, India’s Formula One drivers Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok will be speeding down the...
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New Indo-Portugal Research Project
September 19, 2011 Center for Nanosciences, Kochi The most common cause for cancer-related deaths worldwide is said to be lung cancer. Over a million people succumb to this disease annually....
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At the Nanosolar Division
September 24, 2011 Center for Nanosciences, Kochi The Nanosolar division of the Amrita Center for Nanosciences continues to march ahead with cutting edge research that may provide the answer...
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IEEE Student Enterprise Award for Amrita
October 1, 2011 School of Engineering, Amritapuri The Amrita School of Engineering at Amritapuri campus was recently awarded the 2010-2011 IEEE Student Enterprise Award. Only four colleges...
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Commercializing New Nano-Photo Medicine
October 20, 2011 Center for Nanosciences, Kochi The Amrita Center for Nanosciences in Kochi crossed a major milestone recently when a nanomedicine developed by the Center was licensed for...
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Best Paper Award for Amrita Paper
October 30, 2011 Amrita Center for Nanosciences, Kochi “Antimicrobial resistance is not a new problem but one that is now becoming more dangerous,” reiterated officials of the World Health...
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The Global Learning Community
December 5, 2011 School of Biotechnology The concept of globalization is often associated with economic advances brought about by the reduction of international trade barriers. However, back...
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A Recipe for Life
December 16, 2011 Amritapuri and Coimbatore campuses Managing diabetes is a life-long commitment with four essential ingredients. 1. A healthy eating plan with moderate food intake at...
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Low Cost Waste Sorter
December 27, 2011 School of Engineering, Amritapuri Can a student project really change the world? It seems that it can. The Amrita students who designed a Low Cost Waste Sorter Using Eddy...
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Studying NREGA Benefits
February 10, 2012 School of Business, Coimbatore Nikhil Chandalia and Varun Ullatil, second-year MBA students at the Bengaluru campus spent their summer vacation last year in a very unique...
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New Products Launched
February 28, 2012 Center for Nanosciences, Kochi “There is a strong disconnect between research, development and delivery in our country. Academic institutions focus on research, but not on...
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New Funded DST Project
February 27, 2012 School of Engineering, Coimbatore In these modern times, chemists remain busy synthesizing and characterizing novel compounds that can be used for many beneficial purposes....
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Virtual Labs Formally Launched
February 29, 2012 Amritapuri Campus In the past six months, 233,570 visitors have accessed the Virtual Labs website. The visitors came not just from India but also United States, Malaysia,...
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Amrita Student at KTH, Sweden
March 1, 2012 School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri Mr. Sreekanth K.M., PhD student in the Department of Physics at the Amritapuri campus was offered an opportunity to go abroad to do part...
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MoEF Research Grant Obtained
March 8, 2012 Center for Environmental Studies, Coimbatore “There are many medicinal uses of plants known to various ethnic groups that remain undocumented,” stated Dr. V.S. Ramachandran,...
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MoU for Automotive Technology Center
March 20, 2012 School of Engineering, Coimbatore Coimbatore campus recently saw the unveiling of a new Amrita Automotive Technology Center (AATC) that will be led by Dr. Thirumalini,...
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Research Internship Awards for Amrita Students
March 21, 2012 School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri Final-year MSc (Chemistry) students of the Amritapuri Campus, Aparna G. Nair and Neethu Sebastian recently won the IIT-Bombay Research...
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Bursary Award for Research Scholar
March 26, 2012 Coimbatore Campus When Gandhiji visited London in 1931, he sadly observed that India at that time was more illiterate than it was a hundred years ago. Indeed, extensive...
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DST Supports Indo-Italy Collaboration
April 9, 2012 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri Through the holding of hands and sharing of experiences, new horizons of knowledge will open in the highest realms of science and technology...
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IEEE SEC Grants for Student Projects
April 15, 2012 School of Engineering, Amritapuri Vineeth Mohan, Paul Leons, Ajay Mohanan and Rizwin Shooja won yet another accolade when their B.Tech. student project was chosen for the IEEE...
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EEE Projects Showcased
May 26, 2012 School of Engineering, Amritapuri Nothing can quite equal the excitement a student feels when the theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom is finally proven in a project...
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New UNDEF Funded Project for Women Empowerment
April 28, 2012 Amritapuri Campus Women from Kerala made global headlines recently (see Aljazeera news), when they broke through many barriers to successfully take on the challenging...
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Awarded at HP-Catalyst Summit in Beijing
May 16, 2012 Amritapuri Campus Rural India lacks sufficient teachers and lab equipment to educate the lakhs of students enrolled in its schools. Now Amrita University’s Center for...
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Amrita Biosensor Research Lab Inaugurated
July 27, 2012 School of Engineering, Coimbatore Helping mitigate some of the most common ailments of these modern times, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, is the recently...
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Amrita Develops India’s First Remote-Triggered Virtual Lab in Computer Science
August 6, 2012 Amritapuri Campus When Amrita University deployed India’s first wireless sensor network to detect rainfall-induced landslides in Munnar, Kerala, the project garnered global...
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Professor Giovanni Naldi from Italy Visits Amrita
August 10, 2012 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri Giovanni Naldi, Professor of Numerical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, University of Milan recently visited the Amritapuri campus of...
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School of Biotech As NVIDIA Partner
August 30, 2012 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri “One of our main computational labs is modeling the cerebellum and we have been successful in making realistic biophysical models of the...
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Amrita’s MoVE towards Vocational Education
September 5, 2012 Amritapuri Campus Can vocational education reach out to people residing in the remote corners of the country? Now it can. With the inauguration of MoVE (Mobile...
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International Spine Fellowship for Dr. Krishnakumar
September 25, 2012 School of Medicine, Kochi Dr. Krishnakumar R., Assistant Professor in the Spine Division of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Amrita School of Medicine was recently...
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Amrita-Cognizant Innovation Lab Inaugurated
September 26, 2012 School of Engineering, Coimbatore The Amrita-Cognizant Innovation Lab was recently inaugurated at the Coimbatore campus by Prof. C. Parameswaran, Director, Corporate and...
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Amrita in Big Data Working Group
October 4, 2012 Health Sciences Campus, Kochi Business Wire recently announced the formation of a Big Data Working Group that would undertake to solve security related issues with big data....
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NABARD Rural Innovation Award for Amrita
October 18, 2012 Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director, Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications received the Runners-Up Award for...
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IJMR Publishes Amrita Paper
November 7, 2012 School of Medicine, Kochi An Amrita journal paper titled Cross-Cultural Standardization of the South Texas Assessment of Neurocognition in India was recently published in the...
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TCS Research Fellowship for Amrita Student
November 10, 2012 School of Engineering, Coimbatore Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has a Research Fellowship Program wherein the best forty applicants from all over India are annually...
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CDB Grant for Amrita Faculty
November 16, 2012 Center for Environmental Studies, Coimbatore India is the third largest producer of coconuts in the world. Coconuts play an important role in our national economy; not only...
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Multi Dimensional Data Analytics Lab Inaugurated
December 5, 2012 School of Engineering, Coimbatore An unknown number of terrorists opened fire and hurled grenades, when a group of 40 Marine commandos entered Hotel Taj Mahal, which was...
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Amrita Students Win Innovation Competition
February 2, 2013 School of Engineering, Coimbatore Students from the Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore recently came up with an innovative idea of using a regenerable adsorber bed as...
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ICMR Stipend for Dental Interns
April 2, 2013 School of Dentistry, Kochi The Short-Term Studentship Program initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research awards a stipend of Rs. 5,000/- per month for a period of three...
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Paraptosis for Cancer Treatment
April 8, 2013 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri “All organisms have the capacity to remove damaged cells from the body by programmed cell death known as apoptosis,” noted Dr. Nandita...
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ICSSR Funds Amrita Research
April 22, 2013 School of Business @ Amritapuri, Kochi and Bengaluru Extreme weather events may have a very different impact on the population exposed. While a hurricane overriding the East...
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KSCST Funds Amrita Student Projects
May 16, 2013 Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru The Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) recently approved two student project proposals from the Amrita School of...
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Emotion Recognition in Human-Computer Interaction
August 15, 2013 School of Engineering, Bengaluru How can we make human – computer interactions more effective and easier? Final-year BTech students of Department of Electronics and...
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An Innovative Fire Escape System
August 15, 2013 School of Engineering, Bangalore Wireless sensor networks are being increasingly used to develop high-tech advance warning systems for natural and human-induced disasters....
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Cell Targeted Diagnostics Using Nanomaterials
August 21, 2013 Center for Nanosciences, Kochi The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) published an Amrita article authored by Dr. Shantikumar Nair, Dean of Research, Amrita Vishwa...
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Google Internship for Amrita Student
September 2, 2013 School of Engineering, Amritapuri Srishti Srivasthava, final-year student of BTech in Computer Science and Engineering at Amritapuri campus, will soon complete her...
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Amrita and ISRO launch Joint Venture to Explore Meteorological Parameters
December 3, 2013 School of Engineering, Coimbatore For further meteorological studies a balloon borne field experiment explored parameters such as gradient of temperature, pressure, humidity and...
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Amrita Faculty Receives Research Funding from Karnataka Govt.
January 20, 2014 Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Dr. D. Praveen, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, has been honoured with a grant for his...
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Amrita University joins GOI – Gates Foundation Sanitation Project
March 27, 2014 Amritapuri Campus Amrita University today joined a league of six Indian innovators who would contribute to an ambitious health project in the country, as the multi-campus university...
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USAID invites Amrita CREATE Labs to Showcase their Rural India Tablet...
March 13, 2014 Amrita CREATE Amrita CREATE labs was invited to showcase their Rural India Tablet Education (RITE) initiative at the launch of READ Alliance by USAID and Center for Knowledge...
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