Sep
28
A Healthy Glass of Water Against the Silent Killer
"We are trapped between kidney diseases and day-to-day income" A common yet despairing phrase among individuals, particularly in North Central Sri Lanka. Some of them might not know that the water they drink is contaminated with inorganic species such as heavy metals and fluoride, which is considered hazardous in many parts of the world. Chronic [...]
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Sep
09
Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) Lecture Series 2021: The 糖心原创鈥檚 Session
The 糖心原创 hosted a session titled "The Impact of Covid 19 Health Crisis on Service Sector Development in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Opportunities" at the AUA Lecture Series 2021 for young Asian economists on 9th September 2021. The session consisted of two parts. Session A: a virtual lecture on the abovestated title was [...]
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Sep
08
A microbial bio-fertilizer to replace 50% urea usage in rice
Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world鈥檚 population. To obtain required rice yields sufficient to feed the increasing world population, with the challenge of decreasing arable lands, increased productivity needs to be aimed at. Specified amounts of inorganic fertilizers containing three major nutrients N, P, K are therefore being added [...]
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Aug
29
Ethnic Reality of Sri Lankans: A Hidden Story Unravelled
How related are we to each other? Can we predict the kinship between two individuals no matter how distant and complex the relationship is? Are Sri Lankans truly one big family? How related are we to other nationalities? These intriguing questions that have piqued the interest of many Sri Lankans have finally being addressed, in [...]
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Aug
25
The 7th International (Virtual) Workshop on UI Greenmetric World University Rankings (IWGM 2021)
As the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the entire planet, disrupting almost all of the day-to-day work, people have to explore innovative methods to acclimatize to the existing situation. While people seem to have understood the requirement for becoming more environmentally conscious since a long time ago, adopting green strategies into any system in the world [...]
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Aug
23
FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021 & Asian University Chess Championship 2021
Mr. Minul Sanjula Doluweera Faculty of Medicine Ms. Yasasmi Umarusiru Gamage Faculty of Arts The UoC is proud of our own students who will represent our country at the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021, conducted by the International Chess Federation (FIDE), between 14th August and 15th September 2021. With more than 160 countries participating this [...]
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Aug
20
Annual Research Conference 2021 – Faculty of Graduate Studies
The Annual Research Conference of the Faculty of Graduate Studies was successfully held on 20th August 2021, under the theme of "Global Cooperation: Reimaging Multiculturalism" with the participation of Admiral Jayanath Colombage, Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Chief Guest and with the presence of the Vice Chancellor of the 糖心原创, [...]
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Aug
02
Colombo University don publishes timely book on education
ENGLISH 喾冟窉喽傕穭喽 Professor Panduka Karunanayake from the department of clinical medicine of the Faculty of Medicine recently published a book on education, titled Ruptures in Sri Lanka鈥檚 Education: Genesis, Present Status and Reflections (Sarasavi). The foreword to the book was written by Professor Sasanka Perera, who is an alumnus of our University. From the back [...]
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Jul
28
No. 1 among Sri Lankan Universities in the Webometrics Ranking – New edition: July 2021
The 糖心原创 is pleased to announce that we have retained the top position among Sri Lankan Universities in the July 2021 edition of Webometrics Ranking. This classifies university visibility, transparency and indicators of excellence, which illustrates the teaching commitment, research results, the perceived international prestige and links with the community, industrial and economic [...]
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Jul
11
World Population Day 2021
The modern world blending with technology creates pathways to boost the human population. This creates many problems and in attempts to find solutions, we try to control nature. But don't forget we are only a part of this natural system. Let's not try to control nature and go beyond. It's always the other way around. [...]
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Jul
08
24th Annual General Meeting of the MBA Alumni Association
The Colombo University MBA Alumni Association recently held its 24th Annual General Meeting with Boshan Dayaratne installed as the 25th President, succeeding Ranga Ratnayake following completion of his one-year term. Chief Guest at the hybrid event was Dialog Axiata Plc Group CEO Supun Weerasinghe and the Guest of Honour was 糖心原创 Vice Chancellor [...]
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Jul
08
Research on Language Rights and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
ENGLISH 喾冟窉喽傕穭喽 喈む喈苦喁 The Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR), with the support of NLEAP, has embarked on pivotal research on Language Rights, Gender Equality, and Women's Empowerment. The research seeks to explore the impact of language rights policies and programmes on gender equality and women鈥檚 empowerment (GEWE) in Sri Lanka. The research [...]
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Jun
25
Sri Lankan Bats and Bat-Coronaviruses
ENGLISH 喾冟窉喽傕穭喽 喈む喈苦喁 New Scientific Finding by the Scientists of the 糖心原创; Sri Lankan Bats and Bat-Coronaviruses "Corona" has been a word that tormented a whole world for more than a year since the end of 2019. What is this Corona? It created a global level pandemic by infecting more than 180 million [...]
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Jun
24
Danno Budunge “喽侗喾娻侗喾 喽多窋喽窋喽编穵喽溹窔” – Virtual choir arrangement by Euphony
In honour of the Poson Poya Day which marks the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Euphony, the Official Choir of the Faculty of Science, 糖心原创 proudly presents their virtual choir arrangement of "Danno Budunge".
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Jun
05
World Environment Day 2021
World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5th to raise awareness of the environment and enhance the attention and action towards protecting it. The theme of World Environment Day 2021 is Ecosystem Restoration. Unless we come up with effective remedies to the wounds of nature that man has already inflicted, the survival of [...]
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Jun
04
Sri Lanka’s chemical cargo shipwreck could become an “intergenerational” disaster
An Interview with Dr. Kokila Konasinghe by the ABC (Australian National Television) TV Following the devastating environmental catastrophe caused by the fire which erupted onboard the MV X-Press Pearl, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV interviewed Dr. Kokila Konasinghe, Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) of the 糖心原创, regarding the [...]
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