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New Aerospace Club at Amrita

        February 1, 2011 School of Engineering, Coimbatore   Amrita engineering students now have yet another avenue to pursue their aerospace interests.   The SAEINDIA collegiate chapter of the Amrita...

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Lecture Series for BBM/B Com Students

        February 13, 2011 School of Arts & Sciences, Amritapuri   The Department of Commerce and Management at the Amritapuri campus began the new year with a series of lectures organized during...

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New Gym Inaugurated

        February 18, 2011 Coimbatore Campus   Shri. Omkar Singh shot to fame last year when he emerged as triple gold medallist in shooting at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.   Shri. Singh was at...

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New Department for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Inaugurated

        February 23, 2011 School of Medicine, Kochi   A new department for rheumatology and clinical immunology was inaugurated at the Amrita School of Medicine on February 20, 2011. The department...

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Research in Solar Photo Voltaic Cells Holds Much Promise

        February 21, 2011 Amrita Center for Nanosciences, Kochi   It is estimated that 68 percent of India’s carbon dioxide emissions come from burning coal. In order to produce electricity, India...

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Inner Significance of the Dashavatars

        February 28, 2011 Coimbatore Campus   “Students with a modern outlook will appreciate our scriptures better when rational explanations are provided for the mythological stories in the...

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New Computer Aided Engineering Lab Inaugurated

        March 4, 2011 School of Engineering, Amritapuri   A new technologically advanced research lab was inaugurated at the Amritapuri campus on February 22, 2011. This new Computer Aided Engineering...

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DBT Secretary Visits Health Sciences Campus

        March 4, 2011 School of Medicine, Kochi   Dr. M. K. Bhan, Secretary to the Government of India and the Director-General of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), recently visited Amrita’s...

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Talk on Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Pervasive Computing

        April 8, 2011 School of Engineering, Coimbatore   Dr. Sajal K. Das was at Amrita University’s Coimbatore campus last month to speak about the importance of effective interdisciplinary...

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Institution Day Celebrations at ASE, Coimbatore

        March 14, 2011 School of Engineering, Coimbatore   On March 11, 2011, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham welcomed a special guest – Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr....

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About Lean Systems

        March 23, 2011 School of Business, Bangalore   Students at the Amrita School of Business have the opportunity to regularly interact with industry experts who are invited to campus as part of...

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On Change Management

        March 25, 2011 School of Business, Bengaluru   Mr. Scott Smith, Director & COO, Deloitte India Tax Operations, was in our Bengaluru campus for a colloquium lecture titled Looking Through...

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The Repository of India’s Cultural Values

        May 5, 2011 Coimbatore Campus   The third and concluding series of lectures on the Srimad Bhagavatam for this semester got underway during April 6-11 when Dr. K. Subramanyam expounded on the...

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Think Pink Live Green – A Breast Cancer Prevention Initiative

        April 27, 2011 School of Medicine, Kochi   Dr. Marisa Weiss, Director of Radiation Oncology, Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia is also the Founder-President of Breastcancer.org, the website...

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Dr. Daniel Monti’s Lecture at Kochi Symposium

        May 10, 2011 School of Medicine, Kochi   A one-day symposium on integrated healing titled Mind, Body and Soul – An Integrated Healing Approach was organized at Amrita’s Health Sciences campus...

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Amrita Scholar to Study at KTH in Sweden

        May 4, 2011 Amritapuri and Coimbatore Campuses   While growing up at the Amritapuri ashram since the age of 12, Linkesh Diwan learned about the environment by cleaning the grounds,...

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International Nurses Day at Amrita

        May 21, 2011 School of Nursing, Kochi   Celebrated all around the globe in remembrance of The Lady with the Lamp, Florence Nightingale, International Nurses Day was observed at Amrita’s Health...

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PhD Marketing Seminar

        June 30, 2011 School of Business, Coimbatore   Recently Ajay and Lalitha Manrai, Professors of Marketing from the Department of Business Administration, University of Delaware, USA, conducted a...

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MBA Programs Inaugurated at Amrita

        July 2, 2011 School of Business, Coimbatore   India’s youth form a major chunk of its population, with 60% people under the age of 30.   These enthusiastic young men and women enter the labor...

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Becoming a Nation of Innovation

        July 8, 2011 School of Business, Coimbatore & Kochi   India, like China, has undergone rapid economic growth. Initially, India’s growth was appropriately influenced by developed nations....

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Moving Forward with Confidence

        September 13, 2011 School of Dentistry, Kochi   “We will carry forward the values we have learned at our alma mater during the upcoming years of our professional practice. Education here at...

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Nursing Students Graduate

        September 5, 2011 Health Sciences Campus, Kochi   For those wanting to dedicate their lives to selfless service, there is no profession better than nursing. Helping patients heal, nurses play...

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Bio Pulse ’11 at ASBT

        September 15, 2011 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri   The Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) observed its 7th Annual Day, Bio Pulse 2011, on September 3. The day saw the inauguration of...

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A Dialogue with N. Sathiya Moorthy

        September 19, 2011 School of Communication, Coimbatore   Arjun Menon and Vaishnavi Kanan, ASCOM students report on an encounter with N. Sathiya Moorthy, who was on campus as part of the seminar...

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Conversation with a Retired IPS Officer

        September 19, 2011 School of Communication, Coimbatore   Priyanka Victor and Anirudh Nair, students of Amrita School of Communication, describe their conversation with P. K. Hormis Tharakan,...

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An Interview with Iftikar Gilani

        September 19, 2011 School of Communication, Coimbatore   Iftikhar Gilani, a prominent Kashmir-based journalist, is Special Correspondent for the Tehelka Group. In 2010, Gilani was conferred an...

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Chatting with Lt. Gen. (Retd.) K. Nagaraj

        September 19, 2011 School of Communication, Coimbatore   Athira Rajkamal, second-year student of MA (Communication) at the Coimbatore campus reports on an interview with Lt. Gen. (Army...

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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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Haptics Expert Visits Amritapuri

        September 23, 2011 Amritapuri Campus   Students, faculty and staff at the Amritapuri campus had the rare opportunity to meet with and learn about the research of Dr. Kenneth Salisbury, an...

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Symposium on Recent Advances in Oncology

        November 16, 2011 School of Medicine, Kochi   Millions of people succumb to cancer every year.   The most common forms of cancer affect the lungs, stomach, liver, colon and breasts.     Tobacco...

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Being Different

        November 16, 2011 Coimbatore Campus   “We need to reverse the gaze upon the West by studying the other on our own terms,” stated Shri. Rajiv Malhotra at the launch of his new book titled Being...

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The Myth of the Aryan Invasion

        November 30, 2011 Coimbatore Campus   Some people believe India’s earliest inhabitants were the Dravidians of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. According to the Aryan Invasion Theory promoted by the...

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SCADA Expert at Amritapuri

        December 18, 2011 School of Engineering, Amritapuri   SCADA computer systems gather data from a remote facility, either a waste water treatment plant or an oil / gas pipeline through sensors....

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Insights on Neuropathic Pain

        December 27, 2011 School of Pharmacy, Kochi   Pain influences the general well-being of an individual.   Classified into acute or chronic, malignant or non-malignant, nociceptive or...

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Expert Talk on Sleep Disorders

        December 20, 2011 Health Science Campus, Kochi   “We all experience sleep! Yet why we must sleep and how the brain generates sleep is one of the last remaining mysteries in biology,” noted Dr....

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International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education

        January 2, 2011 Amritapuri Campus   The IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education will be hosted at the Amritapuri campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham during January 3-5,...

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India’s Cultural Heritage Explored

        January 21, 2012 Amritapuri Campus   Amritapuri students, interested in learning more about India’s rich cultural heritage, recently had the opportunity to attend two very distinguished...

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Distinguished Professor Speaks to Amrita Students

        February 8, 2012 School of Communication, Coimbatore   Why does one keep going back to check if a vacation photo one posted on Facebook garnered enough comments?   “As individuals, we have...

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Green Entrepreneur Speaks to BBM Students

        April 6, 2012 School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri   Scott Rice has been visiting the Mata Amritanandamayi Math for several years now.   It was during one of these visits that he learned...

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Swamiji Speaks at Campus Day 2012

        April 28, 2012 Amritapuri Campus   Sampoojya Swami Poornamritananda Puri spoke to the Amrita fraternity during Campus Day celebrations at Amritapuri on April 27, 2012.   The thousands of...

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IEEE Symposium on Education, Technology and Entrepreneurship

        August 5, 2012 School of Engineering, Amritapuri   “Over the years, Amrita has made significant contributions to the fields of education, technology and entrepreneurship,” proudly noted Dr....

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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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Invited Talk on Safety in Rail Transport

        October 31, 2012 School of Engineering, Amritapuri   The Indian Railways is the largest railway system in the world that is under a single management, the Ministry of Railways, Government of...

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Invited Talk on Integrated Energy Management

        November 7, 2012 School of Engineering, Amritapuri   The world, today, is facing an unparalleled set of problems, viz. climate change, environmental degradation and looming scarcity of fossil...

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Sustainable Water Management

        March 22, 2013 Amritapuri Campus   “I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.” The Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar thus...

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Campus Day Celebrations @ Amritapuri

        May 2, 2013 Amritapuri Campus   “Seeing the kind of research that Amrita University does, I will say that yours is an institute with a difference. Yours is an institute devoted to very high...

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Amrita Ayurveda Medical Director in CCIM-UGC

        May 10, 2013 School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri   The Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM) is a professional council under the University Grants Commission (UGC) that monitors higher...

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Success and Well-Being in Life

        June 12, 2013 Amritapuri Campus   Faculty, staff and students at the Amritapuri campus had the rare opportunity recently to attend a series of lectures by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, who is...

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Solar Energy Experts from Sweden and Germany Visit Amrita

  A group of solar energy experts from Sweden and Germany visited Amrita University recently to explore collaborating on a number of solar energy projects. They represent various universities in Sweden...

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Provost, University at Buffalo, Visits Amrita University

  January 07, 2014 Amrita University   Charles F. Zukoski, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, recently visited Amrita...

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