Over the past year, Sri Lanka’s university students have been confined to their homes, adapting to a new virtual learning environment. While much of the defining features of a student’s university life have been amiss during the past year, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) Senior Prof. Sudantha Liyanage says there are merits in the new normal of virtual education. Reopening university facilities at a full operational...Read More
Prof. N.G.S. Shantha Gamage, attached to the Department of Physics, has been elected as the President of Institute of Physics, Sri Lanka (IPSL) at the 41st Annual General Meeting held on March 20, 2021 at the Auditorium, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo 07. Institute of Physics Sri Lanka is the apex body of physicists in Sri Lanka and it has been incorporated by an Act of...Read More
Dr Chameera Udawattha Senior lecturer of Department of Estate Management and Valuation, Faculty of Management Studies & Commerce of USJ received the Presidential Award for Scientific Research 2020, given to the top 100 scientific publications based on their SCImago Journal Ranking (which is source normalized based on weighted citations), where at least 20% of authors are Sri Lankan scientists with a local institutional affiliation. All Sri Lankan scientists with a local...Read More
“Sanifly” an innovative project carried out by a team of Final year undergraduates following the Business Information Systems (Special) Degree offered by Department of Information Technology (DIT), Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura won the National Runners Up position in the Best Innovative product/Project (University Category) of the SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards 2021. The project was also selected as a winner at the Western Province Level...Read More
The Sinhala and Tamil New Year is a very important event in the Sri Lankan calendar and includes the celebration of many rituals and traditions. One such ritual is the ‘Hisa Thel Gama’ (oil anointing ceremony) where a specially prepared herbal oil is anointed on the head at an auspicious time. This year, this ritual was conducted on Saturday, the 17th of April 2021, at 7.16 a.m. A request was...Read More
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