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General Convocation 2020 - University of Colombo

The University of Colombo held its General Convocation 2020 on 23rd & 24th July, 2022 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo. The event was graced by the Vice Chancellor, Senior Professor H.D. Karunaratne, Rector, Deans of the Faculties, Directors of Institutes, Registrar, Acting Librarian, Bursar, academic and administrative staff and graduands.
The Vice Chancellor conferred the BSc and BSc (Honours) degrees to the pass out batch of the Faculty of Science. Gold medals were also awarded to the highly performed students of the faculty.
We wish the graduates be successful in their respective domain.

Following students of the faculty were awarded Gold Medals for their outstanding performance

  • Professor B.L.T. de Silva Memorial Prize in Plant Sciences – J.M.V. Lakshika
  • Dr. Swarna Senathirajah Memorial Prize for Genetics & Plant Breeding – W.M.D.A. Heshani
  • Sir Nigel Ball Award for Plant Sciences – J.M.V. Lakshika
  • Professor B.A. Abeywickrema Award for Plant Sciences – P.R.G.K.T. Rankoth
  • Gold Medal for the Best Final Year Research Project in Environment Science – U.L.N.S. Perera and W.P.T.A Perera (Jointly)
  • Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology – A.K.N. Warnakulasuriya
  • Professor Stanley Wijesundera Memorial Gold Medal for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology – A.K.N. Warnakulasuriya
  • Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for Pharmacy -H.W.W.M.K.R. Hulugalla
  • SenakaBibile Medal in Pharmacology – H.W.W.M.K.R. Hulugalla
  • BhikajiFramji Khan Gold Medal for Chemistry -M.V.J.T. Mawela
  • Professor Pearlyn Pereira Memorial Gold Medal for Physical Chemistry – A.H.J. Sampath
  • Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry -M.V.J.T. Mawela
  • Professor R.S. Ramakrishna Gold Medal for Inorganic Chemistry – AHJ Sampath and MVJT Mawela (jointly)
  • Dharmachandra and TamarasaGunawardhana Memorial Gold Medal for Analytical Chemistry – M.D.C.I. Goonetilleke(Jointly) and M.V.J.T. Mawela(Jointly)
  • Professor Mailvaganam Mahendran Gold Medal for Organic Chemistry – M.V.J.T. Mawela
  • CUFSAA Gold Medal for Computational Chemistry –  J.G. K. Thisara
  • Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Student in Zoology – H.A.S.S. Alwis
  • Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Zoology Research Project – H.A.S.S. Alwis
  • The P.B. Karunaratne Memorial Gold Medal for Ornithology – H.A.S..S Alwis
  • Professor S. W. Kotagama Gold Medal for Environment Science – U.L.N.S. Perera
  • Professor P.C.B. and Clauda Fernando Award for the Best Undergraduate Research Project in the Immunology & Integrative Molecular Biology Programme – A.A.D.D. Chathuranga
  • The Field Ornithology Group Gold Medal for Conservation Biology – H.A.S.S. Alwis(jointly) and U.L.N.S. Perera(jointly)
  • Dr. C.A. Hewavitharana Memorial Prize for Physics – B.P. Akalanka
  • Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Physics Research Project – B.P. Akalanka
  • Mailvaganam Memorial Award for Physics – B.P. Akalanka
  • Mr. A.G.W. Perera Memorial Gold Medal for Engineering Physics – H.G.K. Abeywickrama
  • Dharmadasa Punchihewa Memorial Prize for Mathematics – O.A. Illeperuma
  • Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Student in Mathematics – O.A. Illeperuma
  • Douglas Amarasekera Prize for the Best Student in Mathematics – O.A. Illeperuma
  • Mr. &Mrs. D.P. Epasinghe Memorial Gold Medal for Mathematics – O.A. Illeperuma
  • Professor Valentine Joseph Memorial Gold Medal for the Best Student in Mathematics – O.A. Illeperuma
  • Mr. & Mrs. V.W. Samaranayake Memorial Gold Medal for Statistics – A.A.K.T. Amarasinghe
  • CR and Bhargavi Rao Gold Medal for Statistics – L.W. Rathuwadu
  • Gold Medal for the Best Final Year Project in Statistics – S.D. Daluwatumulle
  • Prof. V.K. Samaranayake Memorial Gold Medal for the Best Student of the Statistics with Computer Science  -S.N.K. Rajakaruna
  • Best Final Year Project of the Statistics with Computer Science – L.D.P.S. Senaratne
  • Gold Medal for Industrial Statistics – L.W. Rathuwadu
  • Gold Medal for the Best Final Year Project in Industrial Statistics – L.W. Rathuwadu
  • Gold Medal for the Best Student of the Applied Statistics – D.R..S Kalubowila
  • Coomaraswamy Prize – W.G.S. Lakmini
  • Joseph Nalliah Arumugam Memorial Award – M.V.J.T. Mawela
  • Justin Samarasekera Award for the Most Outstanding Science Student of the Year – A.A.D.D. Chathuranga

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