Prof. Veranja Karunaratne and Dr. R. G. U Jayalal of the Department of Chemistry along with Dr. Siril Wijesundera of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya have described two lichen species new to science (Anzia mahaeliyensis & Anzia flavotenuis) from the World Heritage Site, Horton Plains National Park. Their new findings were reported in The Lichenologist. More....

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya and Coconut Research Institute established a collaborative coconut research/ demonstration production unit at the University Experimental Station, Dodangolla

Staff Development Centre has successfully conducted a workshop on "Management of Department Inventory " on 9 th & 10th January 2012. This workshop was conducted by Mr. S.C Mayadunne and Mr. N.G.K.K. Seneviratne. More....

The research paper titled “ Design of a Sensor System for Non Invasive Cross-sectional Imagining using Electric Capacitance Tomography “ from the students of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya won the first place in the 10th Annual Technical Conference of IET-YP “ Present around the World “ , held on 17th December 2011at University of Moratuwa . The winning team will represent Sri Lanka at the South Asian Contest. More....