Communications, Media & News

The office of communications is the SRM central desk for university news, press releases, media relations and public affairs.  Here you will find news updates and details on communication and media resources such as press releases and photographs offered by SRM AP. 

Members of media who need information can contact:

Director, Communications & Media
director.communications@srmap.edu.in

Venugopal Gangisetty

Media PR Officer
media.pr@srmap.edu.in

Manoswita Dasgupta

Content coordinator, writer
manoswita.d@gp.srmap.edu.in

“Our adoption of the Minerva Forum represents a leap forward in the use of interactive technology in which every single student is intensely engaged.” VC Jamshed Bharucha

April, 2019: At the ASU GSV (Arizona State University/Global Silicon Valley) education summit in San Diego, SRM AP VC Jamshed Bharucha and Minerva’s Ben Nelson (serving on a panel entitled ‘Practical Solutions for Major Reform in Higher Education’) announced that the enhanced Minerva Forum will be offered to SRM AP’s students in the engineering and

SRM AP NOW A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE BOARD’S INDIA GLOBAL HIGHER EDUCATION ALLIANCE

At the recent College Board’s ‘India Global Higher Education Alliance’ symposium in Bangalore, SRM AP Director, Admissions Rupesh Bisht received the membership plaque from Linda Liu, Vice President, International, The College Board – the US based institution behind the SAT. With this membership SRM AP joins a distinguished group of institutions in India and abroad

Inter-disciplinary Curriculum is the Key to Improve Employability, says Dr. Jamshed Bharucha

Dr. Jamshed Bharucha, Vice Chancellor, SRM University, AP Amaravati speaks to Namami Chakravarty about inter – disciplinary experimental active learning. Q. What do you think are the sailent features of the reowned engineering programme of SRM, AP? Our engineering programme, though only in its second year, is already recognized as a great programme and this

SRM University students win America’s Developer Week Hackathon

A group of five SRM University, Andhra Pradesh students, who are on a Semester Abroad Programme with the University of California, Berkeley, won the Developer Week Hackathon that took place in San Francisco, CA. Developer Week Hackathon is one of the worlds largest challenge driven hackathons.

SRM AP students win laurels in Developer Week Hackathon

Amaravati: A group of 5 SRM University – AP, Amaravati students, who are on a Semester Abroad Programme with University of California, Berkeley, won the Developer Week Hackathon that took place in San Francisco, CA.  Developer Week Hackathon is the one of the world’s largest challenge driven hackathon.

‘IPS based attendance system’ wins top prize at Ennovab’s business plan competition

Pitchathon 2k19 – a 24-hour entrepreneurial journey with a big result! Ennovab, SRM AP’s entrepreneurial innovation lab launched the first 24-hour business plan competition that went from founders speed dating (complete strangers in insightful conversations) to rigorous brainstorming, to five groups of fifty students with common problems running market research, prototyping, punching out financial models

SRM AP’s intra-faculty Data Science course now in collaboration with UC Berkeley

This year SRM AP introduces Data Science for all students in the School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences (SLABS). Supported by intellectual capital of colleagues at the University of California- Berkeley, SRM AP’s Data Science course comprises lectures and labs that encourage discussion as students get comfortable in simple programming using Python. “Recognizing that

SRM AP TEAM WIN TOP PRIZE AT DEVELOPER WEEK HACKATHON, SAN FRANCISCO

Koushik Bhargav Muthe, CSE and his team from Next Tech Lab – Saptarshi Mazumder, CSE, Rajarshi Mazumder, CSE, Agniswar Paul, ECE, Souradeep Das, SRM KTR, CSE, participated in the Developer Week Hackathon (one of the world’s largest challenge driven hackathons) and won the top prize with an award of $1,000 from Agoraio. The team developed

SRM AP to host Amaravati’s First Ever student run National Hackathon on Feb 28

Amaravati, Feb 14 (UNI) SRM University, AP, Amaravati will host its first student run National Hackathon “HackSRM” on February 28 at the campus during its Tech Fest 2019. It will bring together student coders from across the country to collaborate and create solutions to potential word problems through technology. HackSRM is expecting to have a large number of

Pitchathon 2k19

24-hour event with loads of “getting to know” exercises and a fun competition to top it all. We start with a founder’s speed dating event and end with a B-Plan pitching competition! There’ll be food, goodies and loads of fun! Winners get cash prizes and an experience worth cherishing.

SRM University AP welcomes Dr Kerry Healey, President of Babson College, on its Board of Governors

Hyderabad: SRM University AP welcomes Dr. Kerry Healey, President of Babson College, on its Board of Governors. Dr. Healey is a widely respected academic leader and under her stewardship, Babson has strengthened its reputation and position as the recognized global leader in entrepreneurship education, consistently ranked as the top school in its category. The Board

Integrate Liberal arts and technique

Liberal arts model in Indian higher education system will offer flexibility and innovation, say educationists Jamshed Bharucha and Anthony P Monaco There seems to be a huge gap between academia and demands of the labour market since traditional pedagogy is no more favourable, says Jamshed Bharucha, VC and CEO, SRM University Amaravati AP.

Tech Fest/Hackathon

On Feb 28th, 2019 at the 2nd edition of the SRM AP Tech Fest  Dr. S. Chandrasekhar,  Director, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology will preside as  the Chief Guest. Dr. Chandrasekhar, is a  J.C. Bose National Fellow.  The inauguration program is from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon, followed by an Interaction Sessions with Dr.  Chandrasekhar.

SRM varsity to innovate in active learning forums, research

Amaravati: The Board of Governors of the SRM University held its two-day meeting which concluded on the campus of the Varsity on Friday. Dr P Satyanarayanan, president of the SRM AP who presided over the meeting told newsmen that the Varsity is going to embark on massive expansion plan with greater resources and programmes for

LIT Fest

Date: February 1-2, 2019 ‘L’art pour la vie’ – SRM AP’s first ever inaugural Literary FEST, From ACTS (Arts Culture & Technology) an initiative of SLABS students, the festival program includes a tribute to late journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, panels on ‘identity, representation & reality’ and ‘gender & society’, Slam Poetry, Extempore, ‘Art from a literature piece’,

Nobel Lectures, Aula Magna, Stockholm University, Sweden, December 2018

SEAS students – Saurabh Ghanekar, Aneek Banerjee, Saptarshi Mazumder, Rajarshi Mazumder, Koushik Bhargav and Saurav Raj upon invitation by Prof. Bertil Andersson, (Pro-Chancellor of SRM AP,  President Emeritus of NTU, Singapore and ex-Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry) attended lectures by the 2018 laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economics.

“Science is both cool… and hot!”

Dr. Srinivas Pentyala, Director, Translational Research, Stony Brook University.   In an interactive session with students, Dr. Pentyala discussed innovative approaches to pursuing a career in science. The session brought out one key observation –  possibilities are as diverse and boundless as the discipline itself – a world without limits. Srinivas Pentyala is Director of

“Nation building requires ground-breaking research.” DRDO Chairman, Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy

In a meeting with SRM AP faculty, Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy drew attention to the prestigious ‘Make in India’ initiative, called for research on futuristic technologies for the nations benefit, and encouraged SRM AP to emerge as a hub for new technology development. Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy is eminently qualified to speak of matters like aligning

SRM AP & Tufts University to host round-table on higher education

On January 14, 2019, Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) based SRM University AP and US based Tufts University will host a substantive discussion on higher education, global collaborations and the trends and challenges faced by the sector. This closed-door, round-table discussion will witness participation of Indian academic leaders, policy makers and administrators and Indian and global higher

SRM AP at MIT Design Camp – MITx, OCW and local content: Powerful new tools for enhanced teaching/learning

SRM AP’s engineering curriculum (through an exclusive agreement with MITx to access latest material on the edX edge platform) builds on basic MITx courses that include Computer Science and Programing; Mathematics, Calculus, Introduction to Classical Mechanics, Circuits and Electronics and Computation Structures.  To ensure the effective delivery of these courses (that include lecture videos and

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