{"id":1547,"date":"2019-07-27T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/?page_id=1547"},"modified":"2020-07-16T03:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:15:23","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/?page_id=1547","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;3px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;2px|auto||auto||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; inline_fonts=&#8221;Georgia&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Awards<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Department of Applied Nutrition<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DR. (MRS) KUMARI M. RATHNAYAKE<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Commonwealth Scholarship Award \u2013 2013 for a PhD study in University of Reading, UK<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u2018NRC merit award for scientific publication\u2019-2015 (PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION 2015, Vol 18, Iss 18, pp 2874-2880<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u2018NRC merit award for scientific publication\u2019-2014 (BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 2014, Vol 14, Art No. 1291)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u2018NRC merit award for scientific publication\u2019- 2013 (BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 2013, Vol 13, Art No. 994)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u2018NRC merit award for scientific publication\u2019- 2010 and 2012 (Food Nutr Bull 31 (4), 475-482 and BMC research notes 5 (1), 469)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Postgraduate research award-2012-Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLASS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Ceylon college of Physicians Best publication award 2012 (Diabetol Metab Syndr 2012, Vol 4 (1): 13)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Young scientist award at 12th congress of the international society for the study of fatty acids and lipids (ISSFAL), 5-9 September 2016, Stellenbosch, South Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Young scientist award and ALASK OMEGA travel grant at 13 th congress of the international society for the study of fatty acids and lipids (ISSFAL), May 27-31, 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Best presenter award for the paper presented on\u00a0<i>\u201cHigh Prevalence of Malnutrition and Household Food Insecurity in the Rural Subsistence Paddy Farming Sector\u201d<\/i>in the Food and Nutrition session of the 19<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0Annual Congress of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">The certificate award for the Most Attentive Participant in the Certificate Course on Staff Development (CCSD) 2007\/2008.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">The certificate award for the recognition of presentation skills in the seminar presentation of the Certificate Course on Staff Development (CCSD) 2007\/2008.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Received a fellowship to attend regional course on \u201cNutrition Assessment\u201d conducted by SEAMEO-TROPMED, Regional Centre for Community Nutrition (RCCN), University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Received a travel award to attend 19th International Congress of Nutrition (ICN 2009), Bangkok, Thailand from 4th to 9th October 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Awarded the best abstract in the Hugh Sinclair Nutrition Research Group Doctoral conference on February, 2015 at University of Reading, UK.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">PROF. RENUKA SILVA<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s5\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Australia Awards \u2013 Endeavour Research Fellowship tenable in Deakin University, Australia (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">National Research Council Merit Awards for Scientific Publications (2014)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Commonwealth Fellowship by Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK (2013).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Commonwealth Academic Scholarship by Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK (1997-2000)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Fellowship from United Nations University to follow 7th International Graduate Course in Production and Use of Food Composition Data in Nutrition held in the Netherlands in 2005.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Fellowship \u2013 International Visitor Leadership Programme in the USA on \u201cAgricultural Production Standards: Farm to Table\u201d (2013) sponsored by US State Department<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Best student research presentation \u2013 Nutrition Society Meeting, Cork, Ireland in 2000.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">PROF.(MRS.) G.A.P. CHANDRASEKERA<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li6\"><span class=\"s5\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2011 Recipient of American Oil\u2019s Chemists Society (AOCS) Honored Student Award (Health &amp; Nutrition Division)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2011 Recipient of J. Beryl Truscott Graduate Scholarship, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2011 Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2011 Semi-finalist and recipient for Withycombe-Charalambous Award for excellence in graduate research, American Chemical Society (Agricultural &amp; Food Chemistry Division)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"s3\"><b>Department of Aquaculture &amp; Fisheries<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/DAF\/RGS-Wijesekara-awards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">DR. R.G.S.WIJESEKARA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">DR. DILEEPA DE CROOS<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s5\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2014 : Japan International Fisheries Research Society (JIFRS) Yamamoto price for the best paper at the \u201cInternational Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade\u201d IIFET-2014 Australia Conference.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li6\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2008 \u2013 2011: United Nations Universities -FTP full scholarship for Ph.D. studies<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2007 \u2013 2008: United Nations Universities \u2013 FTP full fellowships to participate in the training on \u201cMarine and Inland Waters Resources, Assessment and Monitoring\u201d in Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><span class=\"s3\">2002 \u2013 2004: Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded Science and Technology Personal Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, full scholarship for M.Sc. Programme.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards Department of Applied Nutrition DR. (MRS) KUMARI M. RATHNAYAKE Commonwealth Scholarship Award \u2013 2013 for a PhD study in University of Reading, UK \u2018NRC merit award for scientific publication\u2019-2015 (PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION 2015, Vol 18, Iss 18, pp 2874-2880 \u2018NRC merit award for scientific publication\u2019-2014 (BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 2014, Vol 14, Art No. 1291) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flfn.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}