Sri Lanka has confirmed a new sub lineage of the Delta strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, detected in the island and termed B.1.617.2. AY 104. Dr. Chandima Jeewadara, Director, Molecular and Cell Biology Unit of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ, said Sri Lanka now has three variants that originated in the country. “The first one was B.411, which is a lineage of the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus,...Read More
“SaniFly” an innovative project carried out by a team of final year undergraduates following the Business Information Systems (Special) Degree offered by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura won the second runners up position at the International ICT Innovative Services Awards (InnoServe Awards) 2021. InnoServe Awards is organized in Taiwan by the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic...Read More
Prof. Y. K. Weerakoon Banda has received the SUSRED Award at the NSF Awards Ceremony held on 16th November 2021 at the BMICH. SUSRED (Support Scheme for Supervision of Research Degrees) is a NSF (National Science Foundation) award given to supervisors of postgraduate research degrees and to the Departments/Divisions/Units of institutions that support postgraduate research in Sri Lanka, in recognition of the service to the nation. Prof. Weerakoon received the...Read More
One another sky high achievement to a researcher Prof. Meththika Vithanage. It may probably be the very first time for a Sri Lankan to go into this list of Highly Cited Researchers. Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2021, fewer than 6,700, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers,...Read More
Researchers from Science, Management, Medical, Technology, Engineering and Graduate Studies Faculties published twenty research papers in Journals indexed by Elsevier Scopus during the last month. The web publishing team of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura acknowledges their contribution to upgrading the research standards of the University and expanding the knowledge base in the relevant subject areas. 1. A novel predictive model for capturing threats for facilitating effective social distancing in COVID-19 Open Access...Read More
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