{"id":28253,"date":"2026-04-27T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/?p=28253"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:21:54","slug":"nrc-merit-award_2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/nrc-merit-award_2021\/","title":{"rendered":"NRC Merit Award for Scientific Research-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are delighted to announce that four members of our department have been honoured with the\u00a0<strong>NRC Merit Award for Scientific Research<\/strong>, awarded by the National Research Council of Sri Lanka. The award recognises peer-reviewed publications of outstanding scientific merit published in 2021. The Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya extends its warmest congratulations to the following awardees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Awardees \u2014 NRC Merit Award 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. M. C. M. Nasvi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. K. G. N. Nanayakkara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. H. D. Yapa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. K. K. Wijesundara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recognition is a testament to the continued excellence in research within our department. We take great pride in the contributions of our faculty to advancing civil engineering science, and wish all four recipients continued success in their scholarly endeavours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that four members of our department have been honoured with the\u00a0NRC Merit Award for Scientific Research, awarded by the National Research Council of Sri Lanka. The award recognises peer-reviewed publications of outstanding scientific merit published &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253","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=28253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28271,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions\/28271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}