Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], April 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): AACSB International (AACSB), the world's largest business education alliance, has awarded Ahmedabad University's Amrut Mody School of Management (AMSOM) with the Innovations That Inspire award for 2023. The eighth annual member spotlight programme features business schools that drive new value for stakeholders and Amrut Mody School of Management received this unique distinction for offering the innovative interdisciplinary Foundation Studios that define the Foundation Programme, the common core to Undergraduate education at Ahmedabad University. The Award will be presented in person at AACSB's International Conference and Annual Meeting on April 24, 2023, at Chicago. Parag Patel, Senior Associate Dean, Amrut Mody School of Management, said, "It's an honour to be awarded for our innovative Foundation Studios. The Foundation Programme, which builds on the Studios, was envisioned as the heart of our undergraduate e
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], December 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): 439 students celebrated a major milestone in their educational journeys as they graduated from Ahmedabad University receiving degrees at its 12th Annual Convocation on December 3, 2022
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], October 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): In a new development that furthers Ahmedabad University s commitment to advancing the internationalisation of higher education in India as outlined in the National Education Policy, the University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) - a leading public institution based in Virginia, USA.
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], August 8 (ANI/NewsVoir): The extraordinary contributions to social psychology and management by Ramadhar Singh, currently a Distinguished University Professor at the Amrut Mody School of Management of Ahmedabad University have been marked on the 'Heritage Wall of Fame' of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in the United States. Professor Singh is the only social psychologist from India to be honoured thus. This recognition comes close on the heels of the College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, conferring him with the Distinguished Alumni Award in Psychological Sciences (March 25, 2022). Established in 1974 in Washington DC, USA, SPSP is the world's largest organisation of personality and social psychologists. Professor Singh has been a member of the Society (1990) and then fellow (1992). Duane T Wegener, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], August 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University, announced Sankarshan Basu as the new Dean of the Amrut Mody School of Management, effective August 1, 2022. Professor Basu joins from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, where he has worked for the last two decades as a Professor of Finance and Accounting. Professor Basu has completed his Honours (Statistics) from Presidency College, Calcutta, his MSc (Statistics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his PhD (Statistics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. In terms of research, his areas of interest are Financial Calculus, Option Pricing, Bond and Portfolio Valuation, Applications of Quantitative Techniques to Finance, Insurance, Reinsurance, Risk Management, and Financial Markets. He has presented his work at international conferences in Thailand, the US, the UK, France, Spain, Norway, Iran, Tunisia, Morocco, the Neth