{"id":23641,"date":"2025-08-28T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/?p=23641"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:13:33","slug":"urc-research-awardees-2024-and-recognition-awardees-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/urc-research-awardees-2024-and-recognition-awardees-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"URC Research Awardees \u2013 2024 and\u00a0 Recognition Awardees &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Civil Engineering Achieves Outstanding Success at iPURSE: 7 of 14 URC Research Awards Secured<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Civil Engineering is pleased to announce its exceptional performance at the University Research Council (URC) Research Awards 2024, presented during the Peradeniya University International Research Sessions (iPURSE), the University of Peradeniya\u2019s premier multidisciplinary research forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s awards recognized 14 outstanding researchers from across the University\u2019s nine faculties. The Department of Civil Engineering accounted for seven of these awards, an achievement that underscores the department\u2019s sustained research excellence and leadership across diverse fields of study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awardees from the Department of Civil Engineering:<br>Dr. A.J. Dammika Abeykoon<br>Dr. N.M.S.H. Bandara<br>Dr. J.A.S.C. Jayasinghe<br>Dr. N.G.P.B. Neluwala<br>Prof. K.K. Wijesundara<br>Dr. H.A.D. Samith Buddhika<br>Prof. A.M.A.C.S. Bandara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Securing half of the University\u2019s total awards reflects the department\u2019s commitment to impactful research, innovation, and its contribution to national and international academic advancement. The Recognition Award presented to Prof. A.M.A.C.S. Bandara further highlights the department\u2019s scholarly leadership and its role in shaping the University\u2019s research&nbsp;culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Engineering Achieves Outstanding Success at iPURSE: 7 of 14 URC Research Awards Secured The Department of Civil Engineering is pleased to announce its exceptional performance at the University Research Council (URC) Research Awards 2024, presented during the Peradeniya University &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,94,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}