The Department of Business Economics organized an industry forum under the theme, “Striving for Export Competitiveness”, on the 10th February 2020 from 5.30 pm onwards at Prof. K. A. Munasinghe Hall, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ). The forum comprised of well-known panelists from all spheres namely, Dr. Chandranath Amarasekara...Read More
The Journal Gender and the Genome has offered a $2,500 prize for the best paper on male infertility published by Prof. Dinithi Peiris, Professor in Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Applied Sciences in the year 2019. The title of the paper is Male Infertility Problem: A contemporary Review on Present Status and Future Perspective published on 12th August...Read More
A meeting was held with the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Claudia Elena Garrido Varas; Coordinator of the ICRC and representatives of the Department of Anthropology; Prof. Charmalie Nahallage, Prof. Yasanjalie Jayathilake (Head of the Department), Dr. Tharaka Ananda on 16th December 2019 at the Faculty on the future academic collaborations...Read More
Department of Food Science and Technology of the University of Sri Jayewardnepura has won two Medals at 75th Annual Session of Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science (SLAAS). The following are the details of the awardees and their researches. 1). Research title: Investigation of the impact by selected local herbal ingredients on glycaemic responses...Read More
Two teams of the Department of food science and Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura won Silver and Gold Medals at the Sahasak Nimavum 2019. Following are the details of the Winners and the products created, Development of a seaweed-based snack from Ulva fasciata in Sri Lanka Category- Food Technology Field –...Read More
15th International Conference on Pali and Buddhist studies organized by the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was held on 17th December 2019 at the Sumangala reading hall. Vice-chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura; Prof. Sampath Amaratunge; Keynote Speaker; Prof. Hao Weimin; Ass. Prof. University of Beijing, China, ...Read More
Crushing Biopiracy NSYSU – USJ Joint Symposium Barring the Exploitation of Economically Important Plants in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is a biodiversity hotspot for natural products with the own indigenous identity and it’s under the threat of biopiracy. To address the importance of the indigenous identity of Ceylon natural products in the global economic development...Read More
Due to the recognition of eminent researches conducted on Gyrinops walla locally known as Walla patta tree, Prof. Upul Subasinghe, Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science of the USJ, was invited as a Keynote Speaker to the 1st International Conference on Agarwood and Aromatic Plants organized by Mataram University, Lombok, Indonesia. In this conference held...Read More
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura has paved the way as the leader at securing the future of its student’s as renowned researchers by offering split/joint M.Phil and double Doctorates in multidisciplinary research areas in collaboration with top world ranking Universities. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sampath Amaratunge and Prof Ranil De Silva, Director, World Class University Project visited...Read More
Magic is something that always took us to a whole new world and brought our imaginations to reality and when it comes to magic the story Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is something that we could not forget. Recently a team of undergraduates from the Robotics and Intelligence Systems (RIS) Laboratory at the Department...Read More
