USJ - University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Joint Symposium by NSYSU, Taiwan & USJ on “Barring the Exploitation of Economically Important Plants in Sri Lanka”
2019-12-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Caracas)
“Barring the Exploitation of Economically Important Plants in Sri Lanka”
Joint Symposium by National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan
and
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ)
On
05th December 2019
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children…”
(Chief Seattle 1786-1866)
The Symposium is organized to protect indigenous identity of “Ceylon” natural products, spices, plantation crops, herbs and endemic plants to ensure its lasting survival for our future generations and way forward to value added product development utilizing cutting-edge technology.
Date: 05th December 2019
Time: 10.00 AM to 12.00 PM
Venue: Board Room, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ)
The session is chaired by two speakers from National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan followed by an interactive session.

Keynote Speakers
Topic

Prof. Ranil de Silva,
Director, World Class University Project, USJ
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovation in Biotechnology & Neuroscience, USJ
Barcoding of Ceylon Commercial Crops: The Way Forward for Sri Lankan Economy

Prof. Yu –Chung Chiang,
Chairman & Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NSYSU
The Native and Cultivated Phalaenopsis Species from Biogeography to Horticulture

Prof. Chih-Chuang Liaw,
Chairman & Professor, Department of Marine Biotechnology & Resources, NSYSU
The Development and Recent Research of Phytomedicines in Taiwan

The Symposium will have a key focus on:

Joint/Split double M.Phil/Ph.D programs (https://www.sjp.ac.lk/news/taiwan-scholarships-establishment-environmental-change-sciences-technology-innovation-center/)
Tuition waiver scholarships by NSYSU
Multidisciplinary research collaborations leading to innovative product development with NSYSU, Taiwan and USJ.
Public Private Partnerships linking industry and academia leading to product development targeting the global market

It is a great honour to invite you and interested members from your organization to participate in the Symposium and to actively contribute in the interactive session.
Contact:
Prof. Ranil de Silva
Director. World Class University Project,
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovation in Biotechnology & Neuroscience
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
011 2758697 | https://www.sjp.ac.lk/wcup/ | wcup@sjp.ac.lk
Please confirm your participation by sending an email to wcup@sjp.ac.lk
Downloads
1. Symposium invitation
2. Symposium Flyer
3. Program schedule
4. NSYSU Delegate list

Vidyodaya Undergraduate Research Day (VURD) 2019
2019-12-05 13:00 - 2019-12-06 17:00
Vidyodaya Undergraduate Research Day (VURD) 2019 has been organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) for the third time with the theme “Scaffolding for the Future: Unleashing Undergraduate Research Potential”. The main objective of this research conference is to create a platform for the final year undergraduates who follow special degree programs in different disciplines to reach higher levels in their academic research endeavors.
Moreover, the conference provides exposure to the students on the creation of knowledge and how to share knowledge through conferencing. In addition, the conference will strengthen the skills of the students which are needed to transform them into quality ‘social scientists’ and ‘humanists’.
Research Day will be taken place at the Sumangala Reading Hall of the University on 5th and 6th December 2019.
For more information visit web site: http://fhss.sjp.ac.lk/vurd/
Download: List of Selected Extended Abstracts – VURD – 2019>>

විද්‍යෝදය ශිෂ්‍ය පර්යේෂණ දිනය 2019
2019-12-05 13:00 - 2019-12-06 17:00
ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ මානව ශාස්ත්‍ර හා සමාජීය විද්‍යා පිඨය සංවිධානය කරන විද්‍යෝදය ශිෂ්‍ය පර්යේෂණ දිනය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයීය සුමංගල ශාලාවේදී 2019 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 1 සහ 2 යන දිනයන්හිදී පැවැත්වේ.
වැඩිදුර විස්තර සඳහා : http://fhss.sjp.ac.lk/vurd/

Online Lecture on "Development of stealth RNA vector (SRV) for innovative gene and cell therapy"
2019-12-13 12:30 - 13:30
Title: Development of stealth RNA vector (SRV) for innovative gene and cell therapy
Date & Time: December 13, 2019 (12.30 PM -1.30 PM)
Venue: Dept. of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura,
Speaker: Prof. Mahito NAKANISHI
Affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST)

A Workshop on “Indian Music” and a Mini-concert on "Carnatic Music" by Dept of Languages, Cultural Studies and Performing Arts
2019-12-14 09:00 - 17:00
Professor K. Sashi Kumar, Professor of Carnatic Music at the Department of Vocal, Faculty of Performing Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India will conduct a workshop on Indian Music for the music undergraduate students at the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies and Performing Arts. The Workshop will be held at Sri Sumangala Reading Hall on 14th December 2019 from 9:00 a.m. Professor K. Sashi Kumar is the former HOD at the Department of Vocal, Faculty of Performing Arts, Banaras Hindu University and a music performer who has been awarded a number of music and academic awards in India.
The Workshop is organized by the music section of the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies, and Performing Arts of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science.
At the end of the workshop, Professor will present a mini-concert on Carnatic Music.

Tree Planting Program at Yagirala
2019-12-14 09:00 - 17:00

Annular Solar Eclipse Public Observation Camp
2019-12-26
On 26th of coming December, As Sri Lanka gets a very rare opportunity to observe an annular solar eclipse which is to be occurred during 7.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. time, we, J’pura Astronomy Club (with the support of Arthur C. Clarke Institute) have organized to hold a public solar eclipse observational camp along with a special astronomical research project. We have planned to conduct this camp in Iranamadu as the central pathway of the solar eclipse falls directly across it. For the program, 70 university students plus 2 lecturers are to be participated, hoping to provide this valuable opportunity for school children (expecting a minimum of 500 school kids’ participation) in the area and outsiders as well.
The main objective of conducting this camp is to popularize astronomy based activities in rural areas in Sri Lanka, making school children and other people interested in the subject. This event also highlights the safety precautions that should be followed when observing a solar eclipse as we guide them to observe the event safely through telescopes with special safety filters, by letting them use safety solar viewers for a safe and memorial solar eclipse experience. Most importantly, we largely focus on providing basic scientific knowledge on different types of solar eclipses such as total, annular and partial eclipses, highlighting their differences. Considering all the above objectives, our program looks forward to increasing peoples’ awareness of astronomy, reflecting all the advantages of it on human society.

New Year Blessing Ceremony - 2020
2020-01-01 08:30 - 10:00
The new year blessing ceremony organized by the USJ community will be held on 01st January 2020 at the university premises with the participation of Mahasangha and Vice-Chancellor; Prof. Sampath Amaratunge.

සාග් ක්‍රීඩා තරු සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර ගෞරවයට පත්වූ ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සිසුන් සඳහා උපහාර උත්සවය
2020-01-02 11:30 - 17:00
සාග් ක්‍රීඩා තරු සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර ගෞරවයට පත්වූ ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සිසුන් සඳහා විශේෂ උපහාර උත්සවයක් 2020 ජනවාරි මස 2 වන දින පශ්චාද් උපාධි අධ්‍යයන පීඨ රැස්වීම් ශාලාවේදී පෙරවරු 11.30 සිට පැවැත්වේ.
විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ආදි ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය හා ක්‍රීඩා කවුන්සිලය සහයෝගයෙන් මෙම උත්සවය සංවිධානය කරනු ලැබේ.

Felicitation ceremony for SAG sports stars and internationally acclaimed USJ students
2020-01-02 11:30 - 17:00
Special felicitation ceremony to felicitate the sport stars of our university who represented SAG and the other special achievers who represented our university in the world arena will be held on 2nd January 2020.
Venue : Faculty of Postgraduate Board room
Date : 2nd January 2020
Time : 11.30 onwards
This ceremony is organized by the sports council of USJ in collaboration with the Alumni Association of USJ.

International Conference on Biomedical Engineering
2020-01-06 10:00 - 13:00
Download: Tentative Schedule for the Symposium on 6th Monday 2019

Download: Keynote Speakers Profiles

ජෛව වෛද්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳ ජාත්‍යන්තර සමුළුව
2020-01-06 10:00 - 13:00

Monthly Academic Talk on Freddie Silva's Songs
2020-01-07 15:00 - 18:00
The Department of Sinhala and Mass Communication of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has organized “Freddie Silva’s Songs” as the first in the series of monthly academic talks prior to the Vidyodaya Literary Awards 2020, which will be held at 3.00 pm, on the 7th January 2020 at the Sumangala Reading Hall, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
All are welcome!!

Touch the Peak Annual Job Fair and Entrepreneurial Ventures - For FAS Students
2020-01-08 - 2020-01-09

Orientation Program of the Faculty of Applied Sciences
2020-01-13 08:00 - 2020-01-31 17:00
The orientation program of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura will be commenced on 13th January 2020 and will be taken place until the end of January 2020.

Annual Staff Sports Championship - 2020
2020-01-16 08:00 - 17:00
Apply for Annual Staff Sports Championship – 2020.
Deadline: 16th January 2020

රන්රසු ප්‍රතිභා අභිනන්දන කලා මංගල්‍යය 2019
2020-01-16 08:00 - 2020-01-30 17:00
ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ මානවශාස්ත්‍ර හා සමාජීයවිද්‍යා පිඨය විසින් සංවිධානය කරන රන්රසු ප්‍රතිභා අභිනන්දන කලා මංගල්‍යය 2019 දෙසැම්බර් මස සහ 2020 ජනවාරි මස විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය බණ්ඩාරනායක ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වේ.
වෙබ් අඩවිය : http://fhss.sjp.ac.lk/ranrasu/

"Ranrasu" Festival of Art 2019
2020-01-16 08:00 - 2020-01-30 17:00
Ranrasu 2019: Festival of Art organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will be held on December 2019 and January 2020 at the Bandaranayaka Hall of the University. Concurrently, ‘Ranrasu Academic Volume’ will be launched.
Ranrasu will be staged on the following dates:
Ranrasu Stage 1- 16th January 2020
Ranrasu Stage II- 23rd January 2020
Ranrasu Grand Finale – 30th January 2020
This is the largest festival of art conducts by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, aiming to open a platform to display undergraduates talents in various fields such as dancing, singing, announcing, playing, acting, painting, lyrics writing, short story writing, short film making, documentary writing and producing, etc. Undergraduates in the faculty, academic members as well as non-academic staff members have the opportunity to participate in these competitions and to show their talents and skills and finally to own the victory.
Ranrasu Web: http://fhss.sjp.ac.lk/ranrasu/

Commencement of the Academy of EcoTourism, Wildlife & Nature Interpretation
2020-01-24 10:00 - 17:00

Business Idea Competition - Awarding Ceremony
2020-01-27 17:00 - 19:00

Thai Pongal Festival (தை பொங்கல்) 2020
2020-01-28 07:30 - 09:30

Prof. H. M. A. Herath Annual Memorial Oration
2020-01-31 17:00 - 20:30

Public Lecture on "The Novel Corona Virus Infection: How Worried Should We Be?"
2020-02-07 14:00 - 16:00

Oxford University Press (OUP) – Training session
2020-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
OUP is a scholarly database which can be accessed through our library website.
The Library, with the collaboration of OUP has organized a training session on “how to publish with OUP” as well as “Searching Oxford Medicine Online”.
Date: 11th February 2020
Time: 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.
Venue: Interactive Study Area, Library
The resource person will be from the Oxford University Press, India & South East Asia.
If you are willing to participate please contact Mr. A.M.S. Angammana on ext. 8521 or mail to : santha@sjp.ac.lk.

Guest Talk on Mathematical Epidemiology: A battleground for applied Mathematicians
2020-02-13 15:00 - 17:00

YBA Weekly Lecture - "Sri Lankan Biodiversity and Recent Explorations"
2020-02-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Department of Forestry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura

Panhindaka Seya: Musical Program with Senior Lecturer Aththnayake M. Herath
2020-02-13 18:00 - 20:00

SMASHES 2020 – Badminton Championship
2020-02-20 - 2020-02-23
Smashes all-island badminton championship 2020 organized by the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and conducted by badminton club of University of Sri Jayewardenepura will be held on 20th to 23rd of February 2020 in Mercantile Badminton Association Indoor Stadium, Colombo and S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia.
Entries have been closed from 10th January 2020
Download Entry Form with Rules & Regulations for Junior SMASHES 2020: ENTRY FORM – JUNIOR>>
Tournament Schedule: Download the schedule

Click here to download the Final Draws

SMASHES 2020 – බැඩ්මින්ටන් ශූරතාවය
2020-02-20 - 2020-02-23
ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය බැඩ්මින්ටන් සංගමය විසින් සංවිධානය කරන SMASHES 2020 බැඩ්මින්ටන් ශූරතාවය 2020 පෙබරවාරි මස 20 වනදා සිට 23 වනදා දක්වා කොළඹ වෙළඳ බැඩ්මින්ටන් සංගම් ගෘහස්ථ ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී හා ගල්කිස්ස ශා.තෝමස් විදුහල් ගෘහස්ථ ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවැත්වේ.
අයදුම්පත් ENTRY FORM – JUNIOR>>

Learn to Teach Online Using Google Classroom and other Tools
2020-02-20 15:00 - 17:00
Learn to teach online using Google classroom and other tools, by Prof Hiran Amarasekera, Professor in Forestry and Environmental Science, Director, Digital Media and Communication will be held on 20 Feb 2020 at 3-5 pm at Computer Center, Dept of Computer Science, FAS.

Target group – Faculty members of the science faculty.
Topics

Google Classroom – Practical training
Japura Open Learning platform
How to create video lessons
Blended learning
MOOCS – Massive Open Online Courses
Moodle LMS

Requirements
yourname@sjp.ac.lk email
bring your smartphone with data connection
wifi login for sjpnet – if you do not have login details please mail Dr Ravindra (ravi@sjp.ac.lk).
Date and venue
20 Feb 2020 at 3-5 pm at Computer Center, Dept of Computer Science, FAS.
