{"id":28624,"date":"2026-06-24T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/?p=28624"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:43:51","slug":"general-convocation-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/general-convocation-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Engineering Graduates Honoured at the General Convocation 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Civil Engineering is proud to congratulate our graduates who were recognised with prestigious awards at the General Convocation 2025 of the University of Peradeniya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Award Recipients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>R. M. T. D. Wijayarathne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mr. Helarisi Abeyruwan Gold Medal in Civil Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ceylon Development Engineering Prize for Best Performance in Civil Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H. B. De Silva Prize for Surveying<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A. Thurairajah Prize for Geotechnics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H. M. P. B. Ariyaratne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>E. O. E. Pereira Prize for Structures (II)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M. Amaratunga Prize for Strength of Materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>D. N. Liyanage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>E. O. E. Pereira Prize for Structures (I)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M. P. Ranaweera Prize for Computer-Aided Structural Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>D. H. Gallehewa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M. P. Ranaweera Prize for Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Thirairaja-Prize-for-Geo-1024x590.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Thirairaja-Prize-for-Geo-1024x590.webp 1024w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Thirairaja-Prize-for-Geo-300x173.webp 300w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Thirairaja-Prize-for-Geo-768x443.webp 768w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Thirairaja-Prize-for-Geo-1536x885.webp 1536w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Thirairaja-Prize-for-Geo.webp 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure 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Award Recipients R. M. T. D. Wijayarathne H. M. P. B. Ariyaratne D. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28624","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=28624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}