{"id":7647,"date":"2026-01-12T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:34:21","slug":"%f0%9d%97%a3%f0%9d%97%bf%f0%9d%97%bc%f0%9d%97%b3-%f0%9d%97%aa%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%b7%f0%9d%97%b6%f0%9d%97%bf%f0%9d%97%ae-%f0%9d%97%95%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%b9%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%98%80%f0%9d%97%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Wajira Balasooiya Wins President’s Award for Scientific Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” text_font_size=”16px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-50px||||false|false” animation_style=”flip” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

Congratulations, Prof. Wajira Balasooriya, our academic member from the Department of Biotechnology in the Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, won the President’s Award for Scientific Research in 2021 at the recent awarding ceremony held by the National Research Council, Ministry of Science and Technology. Well done, Professor! The faculty is proud of you.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/Dept_BT\/BT_Post\/Award_Prof-Wajira.png” title_text=”Award_Prof-Wajira” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||50px||false|false” animation_style=”zoom” hover_enabled=”0″ border_radii=”on|3px|3px|3px|3px” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”#F0B800″ box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_color=”#F0B800″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations, Prof. Wajira Balasooriya, our academic member from the Department of Biotechnology in the Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, won the President’s Award for Scientific Research in 2021 at the recent awarding ceremony held by the National Research Council, Ministry of Science and Technology. Well done, Professor! The faculty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fapm.wyb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}