With the initiation of the COVID-19 vaccination program, Health Care Workers in Sri Lanka were the first to be vaccinated with Covishield vaccine. Therefore, the Allergy, Immunology and Cell Biology Unit, Department of Immunology Molecular and Molecular Medicine investigated antibody responses to the SARS-CoV-2, neutralizing antibody responses, antibody responses to the variants, along with T...Read More
Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Senior Professor Sudantha Liyanage has been appointed as the Chairman of Expert Committee on Polls Reforms. The committee was appointed for the purpose of analyzing proposals for Reforming Election Structure and Electoral Laws in the country. Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to identify appropriate reforms...Read More
USJ Tech-transfer Office of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura made yet another successful stride in research commercialization by signing a technology licensing agreement with Divergent Technology (Pvt.) Ltd. A novel patented technology on efficient method to produce Biodiesel, invented by Dr. Udara Arachchige and his team of the Faculty of Technology was transferred to the...Read More
On 15th July 2021, the University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) of the State Ministry of National Security and Disaster Management of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to promote collaborative research and development in the field of Landslide Disaster Risk Management....Read More
Over 95% individuals in Sri Lanka developed antibodies against the Sinopharm vaccine. The Allergy, Immunology and Cell Biology Unit, Department of Immunology Molecular and Molecular Medicine investigated immune responses to the Sinopharm vaccine and found that the vaccine induced antibody responses in over 95% of individuals, similar to levels seen following natural COVID-19 illness. The...Read More
Research is creating new knowledge. Taking initiative steps in promoting the research culture among academics, the Research Center for Business Economics and Development Studies of the Department of Business Economics successfully organized the 2nd Annual Conference on Business Economics (ACBE) 2021 on 30th June 2021 virtually via Zoom. The conference was themed as ‘Emerging Challenges...Read More
University of Sri Jayewardenepura expresses its deepest sympathies on the demise of Emeritus Professor Wimal G. Balagalle, former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was a well-known linguist versatile in Sinhala, Pali, Prakit, Sanskrit, Bengali languages and English as well. Born on November 1924, in the village of Balagalle in the...Read More
The Department of English Language Teaching of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura has launched a service to provide help for English Language Learners to have a practice partner for writing/texting in English. The Basha Buddy system is run by the Alumni of the English Language Society (ELS) of the Department of English Language Teaching of the...Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a need to rapidly scale-up testing services and provide diagnoses to implement test-trace-isolate strategies which are essential to effectively treat, and care for patients and to control the spread of the virus. Hundreds of diagnostic products are now available on the market, targeting detection of viral RNA, viral antigens and...Read More
