General Convocation 2021 - University of Colombo

The University of Colombo held its General Convocation 2021 on 13^th & 14^th December, 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
• Sir Nigel Ball Award for Plant Sciences

• Dr. Swarna Senathirajah Memorial Prize for Genetics & Plant Breeding

• Professor B.A. Abeywickrema Award for Plant Sciences
• Professor R.L.C. Wijesundera Gold Medal for Plant Pathology

• Gold Medal for Bioinformatics

• Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Professor Stanley Wijesundera Memorial Gold Medal for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Joseph Nalliah Arumugam Memorial Award

• Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for Pharmacy

• Senaka Bibile Medal in Pharmacology

• Bhikaji Framji Khan Gold Medal for Chemistry 
• Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry
• Professor Mailvaganam Mahendran Gold Medal for Organic Chemistry

• Professor Pearlyn Pereira Memorial Gold Medal for Physical Chemistry

• Professor R.S. Ramakrishna Gold Medal for Inorganic Chemistry

• Dharmachandra and Tamarasa Gunawardhana Memorial Gold Medal for Analytical Chemistry

• Professor P.C.B. and Clauda Fernando Award for the Best Undergraduate Research Project in the Immunology & Integrative Molecular Biology Programme

• Professor L.M.V. Thilakaratne Gold Medal for Chemistry

• CUFSAA Gold Medal for Computational Chemistry

• Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Zoology Research Project

• Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Student in Zoology
• The P.B. Karunaratne Memorial Gold Medal for Ornithology
  

• The Field Ornithology Group Gold Medal for Business and Environment

• Professor S. W. Kotagama Gold Medal for Environment Science
• The Field Ornithology Group Gold Medal for Conservation Biology
• Gold Medal for the Best Final Year Research Project in Environment Science

• Dr. C.A. Hewavitharana Memorial Prize for Physics
• Mailvaganam Memorial Award for Physics

• Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Physics Research Project

• Dharmadasa Punchihewa Memorial Prize for Mathematics
• Gulamhusein A.J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for the Best Student in Mathematics
• Douglas Amarasekera Prize for the Best Student in Mathematics
• Professor Valentine Joseph Memorial Gold Medal for the Best Student in Mathematics
• Mr. & Mrs. D.P. Epasinghe Memorial Gold Medal for Mathematics

• Mr. & Mrs. V.W. Samaranayake Memorial Gold Medal for Statistics
• Gold Medal for the Best Final Year Project in Statistics
• CR and Bhargavi Rao Gold Medal for Statistics
• Justin Samarasekera Award for the Most Outstanding Science Student of
  the Year

• Prof. V.K. Samaranayake Memorial Gold Medal for the Best Student of the Statistics with Computer Science
• Best Final Year Project of the Statistics with Computer Science

• Gold Medal for Industrial Statistics
• Gold Medal for the Best Final Year Project in Industrial Statistics

• Gold Medal for the Best Student of the Applied Statistics

• Coomaraswamy Prize

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