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Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist, engineer and economist with a focus on energy, water resources, sustainable development and climate change.He was the 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate, and Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice-President of the United States Al Gore. [1]
The apex body in Sri Lanka for government research funding is the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. [2] The Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD), a joint program between the Sri Lankan government and the World Bank, provides research grants to Sri Lanka's higher education institutes.
The University of Colombo (informally Colombo University or UoC) is a public research university located primarily in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is the oldest institution of modern higher education in Sri Lanka. Specialised in the fields of Natural, Social, and Applied Sciences as well as Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Law, and Technology.
Genetic studies on Sinhalese. The hypothesized migration routes of the ancestors of the Sinhalese and other ethnic groups into Sri Lanka. Genetic studies on the Sinhalese is part of population genetics investigating the origins of the Sinhalese population. All studies agree that there is a significant relationship between the Sinhalese and the ...
Wayamba University of Sri Lanka. Applied Economics & Business — Department of Agribusiness Management. Journal of Food and Agriculture — Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management and Faculty of Livestock Fisheries and Nutrition. Sri Lankan Journal of Banking and Finance — Department of Banking and Finance.
Cherry barb (Puntius titteya) is a tropical fish which is native to Sri Lanka, but introduced populations are established in Mexico and Colombia. Sri Lanka contains 93 species of freshwater fish, of which 50 are endemic. 28 species are categorized as threatened by the IUCN. [5] There are 8 species of brackish water fish that also come to ...
Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947–1973 (1974, Macmillan) Electoral Politics in an Emergent State: the Ceylon General Election of May 1970 (1975, Cambridge University Press) The Gaullist System in Asia (1980, Macmillan) The States of South Asia: Problems of National Integration : Essays in honour of W.H. Morris-Jones (1982, Hurst)
The National Research Council of Sri Lanka (NRC) is a funding agency in Sri Lanka, providing financial assistance to public sector scientists. Established as a statutory body through an act of parliament in 2016 by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the NRC aims to foster and facilitate research in the fields of science and technology.