Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham PhD

Wishing you a sparkling festival of lights.

Happy Diwali 🪔🪔🪔

Today has been declared by the UNO as International Day of the Girl Child to raise public opinion against gender inequality, raise the condition of the girl child, education, and nutrition-related issues apart from child marriage, legal rights, and health-related issues.

So today let's appreciate all the girls who have made this world a wonderful place and vow to respect, support and protect them 👧👩‍🦱👩‍🦳.

Saluting our air warriors of the sky for gliding up the chariot of safety with integrity, passion and fearlessness.

The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), has announced an for the bilateral partnered by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Stanford University. The project is titled "Establishment of an Indo-US Molecular Biomarker Knowledge Network for COVID-19".

Amrita Bags Award for Indo-U.S. Molecular Biomarker Knowledge Network for COVID-19 Project. The Principal Investigators from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham are Dr. Shantikumar Nair (Dean of Research, and Director of our Amrita Center for Nanosciences) and Dr. Ekanath Rangan (Physician Scientist, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (AIMS).

The Principal Investigators from the US are Dr. Mohit Jain, University of California San Diego (UCSD); Dr. Ramesh Rao, UCSD and Dr. Shriram Nallamshetty, Stanford University.

The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) is an autonomous bilateral organization jointly funded by the Governments of India and the USA that promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Innovation through substantive interaction among governments, academia and industries.

Congratulations Amrita and US partners and teams!

Read: https://www.amrita.edu/news/amrita-bags-award-indo-us-molecular-biomarker-knowledge-network-covid-19-project

Happy Gandhi Jayanti

September 27th is Chancellor Amma’s 67th birthday. Due to the pandemic, this year Amma’s birthday is being observed exclusively as a day of global prayer for world peace. Amma has requested everyone from around the world to dedicate the day to and for global and .

We want to remember the veteran singer who defined our lives through songs.

AMRITA awarded a second UNESCO Chair. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has been awarded a UNESCO Chair for Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development. The Chair supports the university’s mandate to strengthen development in across India, and Amrita will develop a comprehensive framework for academic engagement.

The Chair will be held by Amrita for the next four years under the of Dr Maneesha Ramesh, Dean, International Programs and Director of its Center for Wireless Networks & Applications. With both UNESCO chairs, Amrita becomes part of more than 700 institutions that share knowledge and expertise to improve their educational and research capacities.

“This is the second Chair awarded to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in the past four years after it received India's first-ever UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment,” says Dr Ramesh. “It is a great privilege for us to have achieved this recognition once again.”

“Our much-acclaimed experiential learning program, Live-in-Labs, was conceptualized by our Chancellor, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, whose vision for Amrita has always included compassion-driven research and sustainable development,” indicates Prof. Maneesha Ramesh.

“Over the years, Live-in-Labs has contributed towards sustainable development of rural communities across 21 states. This work led to us being allotted this prestigious UNESCO Chair. We will now be able to take our experiential learning concept to the entire world in collaboration with other UNESCO Chairs and universities across the globe.”

Amrita started Live-in-Labs in 2013 so students could experience first-hand the faced by India’s .

Live-in-Labs works with 101 villages throughout India. In these, it has implemented over 150 projects, supporting more than 200,000 people. About 400 international students from 40 international partner universities have participated in the program so far.

A tribute to the greatest Indian Engineer Sir.Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya. Wishing all the Engineers across the globe, Happy Engineer's Day.

Happy Engineer's day! A tribute to the greatest Indian Engineer Sir.Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya. Wishing all the Engineers across the globe, Happy Engineer's Day. Amrita salutes a...

Every nation is incomplete without its engineers.

Happy Engineer's Day👷‍♀️👷👩‍💻🧑‍💻

https://www.edexlive.com/news/2020/sep/08/amrita-vishwa-vidyapeetham-university-awarded-unesco-chair-for-experiential-learning-for-sustainabl-14474.html

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University awarded UNESCO Chair for 'Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development' Through the Chair, the University will develop a comprehensive framework for academic engagement in building sustainable communities by designing a curriculum based on experiential learning

Congratulation Dr. Maneesha Sudheer and the landslide research team.

Our Dean of International Programs, Dr. Maneesha Ramesh, professor and Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications ( ) has been appointed in the Advisory committee for the landslide/debris flow of Kerala State Disaster Management Authority. The advisory committee comprises five members and the primary role of the committee is to help the Disaster Management Authority in developing plans to mitigate landslide disasters in various places in .

As an integral part of the committee, we will be consulted and required to contribute in the following ways: 1. To help the disaster management authority in developing specific plans for Landslide preparedness. 2. Upon request from the authority, visit various landslide sites for conducting study and submit report so as to help the authority in making decisions 3. Visit quarry sites in order to ensure that they adhere to the instructions disseminated by the authority to prevent landslides. 4. To help the disaster management authority in developing landslide prevention & preparedness plans for districts & the State. 5. To help the authority in preparing Landslide mitigation plans for getting funds from the Central Government.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was awarded the ‘World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Disaster Reduction’ by the International Program on Landslides (IPL) at the fourth World Landslide Forum, which was held at Ljubljana, Slovenia from 29th May-2nd June, 2017. AmritaWNA had successfully deployed the world’s first wireless sensor network system for detection and early warning of landslides in Munnar, Kerala. At the request of the Indian Government, a similar technology was deployed at Sikkim, Northeast Himalayas.

Headed by Dr. Maneesha, the first landslide laboratory in India was set up in 2008 by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. This serves as a test bed for development and validation of systems deployed in landslide prone areas. It can create small landslides under controlled conditions and act as a feedback system for field deployment. The Center has also initiated a landslide research project with the British Geological Society and UK Met Office called the "Landslip". This project was initiated to develop regional thresholds for landslide warning from the real-time data of Amrita’s field deployment in the Himalayas and the Western Ghats. It also includes an early warning system to reduce landslide risk.