Two Academics of Department of Nursing, University of Peradeniya win Presidential Awards for Scientific Publication

• The President’s Awards for Scientific Publication was held on November 2018. This year, two academic of department of Nursing, University of Peradeniya received awards for their research, published in 2016. Mr. Sarath Rathnayake and Ms. Yamuna Athukorala whose research publications reached international standards, were awarded with presidential award for providing an incentive to increase national scientific productivity. The ceremony was graced by His Excellency the President and the Hon. State Minister of Science, Technology and Research.

  The award ceremony organized by the National Research Council is the country’s most prestigious of its kind in the field of science. Presidential research awards are awarded to Sri Lankan scientists with a Sri Lankan institutional affiliation whose work reached international standards, and to provide an incentive to increase national scientific productivity.