{"id":5395,"date":"2021-07-19T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imcedu.com\/new\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2024-02-08T05:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:44:36","slug":"nrc-congratulates-the-sri-lankan-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/19\/nrc-congratulates-the-sri-lankan-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"NRC congratulates the Sri Lankan researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/imcedu.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edited-new-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edited-new-1.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edited-new-1-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edited-new-1-768x265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edited-new-1-228x79.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15 researchers from Sri Lanka have been included in a list of the top 2% of researchers in the world, which was compiled by Stanford University, USA. The full list was published in the journal PLOS Biology. The researchers from Sri Lanka include 5 past Council members of the NRC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Mendis, Shanthi<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Colombo North Teaching Hospital<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Uhlenbrook, S.<\/td><td>Water Management Institute (IWMI) Colombo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Smakhtin, Vladimir<\/td><td>Water Management Institute (IWMI) Colombo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kite, Geoff<\/td><td>Water Management Institute (IWMI) Colombo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Senanayake, Nimal<\/td><td>University of Peradeniya<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bandara, Jayasundera<\/td><td>National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Mendis, Kamini<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>University of Colombo<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dissanayake, C. B.<\/td><td>University of Peradeniya<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>de Silva, Nilanthi<\/td><td>University of Kelaniya<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>de Silva, Hithanadura Janaka<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>University of Kelaniya<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kularatne, Senanayake A.M.<\/td><td>University of Peradeniya<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rajapakse, S.<\/td><td>University of Colombo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Ratnasooriya, W. D.<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>University of Colombo<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Suraweera, Himal A.<\/td><td>University of Peradeniya<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Dias, Priyan<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>University of Moratuwa<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 researchers from Sri Lanka have been included in a list of the top 2% of researchers in the world, which was compiled by Stanford University, USA. The full list was published in the journal PLOS Biology. The researchers from Sri Lanka include 5 past Council members of the NRC: Mendis, Shanthi Colombo North Teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7132,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/7132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}