Pera Uni RESCON brings together researchers
View(s):‘RESCON 2024’, the Research Congress of the Post Graduate Institute of Science at the University of Peradeniya was held on Friday.
RESCON 2024 offered a unique platform to showcase cutting-edge research and provided an invaluable opportunity to share and disseminate knowledge among scientists from Sri Lanka and overseas.
University of Peradeniya Vice Chancellor Terrance Mudajith was the guest of honour. The chief guest was Assistant Commissioner for India Saranya V S. She is a multilingualist fluent in Spanish, English, Hindi and Tamil. She has a Masters’s in embedded systems from the College of Engineers, Chennai.
The Vice Chancellor said that the country is exporting Ilmenite to countries like China and they in turn refine it to Titanium and we buy the processed Titanium for our needs. Researchers at the University are working on how best these minerals could be processed with outside collaborations, since the University cannot undertake such processing, but could advice and do all the research that is needed. The University is a Teaching and Research Institute and not a commercial enterprise, he added.
Professor Mudajith further said that the University of Peradeniya has spent 900 million rupees on various researchers and when they need more, the Treasury has come forward for their aid.
The Keynote address was by Professor Jennifer Perera on Microbiome
Among those who addressed the Congress were the Director of the Institute Professor H M T G A Pitawela, Dean of the Faculty of Science Professor Sanath Rajapakse, and Chairperson of RESCON Professor Pryanga Wijesinghe.
- L B Senaratne
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