{"id":4072,"date":"2023-10-08T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2023-10-08T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:23:35","slug":"congratulations-dr-imalka-munaweera-for-winning-the-2023-twas-atta-ur-rahman-award-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/congratulations-dr-imalka-munaweera-for-winning-the-2023-twas-atta-ur-rahman-award-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr Imalka Munaweera for winning the 2023 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award\u00a0in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The World Academy of Sciences Council has announced the winners of four of its<br>prestigious awards (2023 TWAS-Abdool Karim Award, 2023 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman<br>Award, 2023 TWAS-Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Award, and 2024 TWAS-Siwei Cheng Award<br>in Economic Sciences) for enterprising and accomplished scientists living and working<br>in the global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>All four winners are women. Also, two of the winners are from the Least Developed<br>Countries, Burkina Faso and Malawi. The other two are from Sri Lanka and China.<br>The awards provide a powerful incentive for developing world scientists to excel on new<br>levels while bringing much-deserved global recognition to their achievements and<br>inspiring others to follow in their footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Dr. Imalka Munaweera, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences\u00a0received<br>2023 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award\u00a0in Chemistry, for her contributions to the<br>development of engineered inorganic nanostructures and nanofiber composites that<br>may have multidisciplinary applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/twas.org\/article\/twas-names-four-new-awardees\">https:\/\/twas.org\/article\/twas-names-four-new-awardees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Academy of Sciences Council has announced the winners of four of itsprestigious awards (2023 TWAS-Abdool Karim Award, 2023 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/congratulations-dr-imalka-munaweera-for-winning-the-2023-twas-atta-ur-rahman-award-in-chemistry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations Dr Imalka Munaweera for winning the 2023 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award\u00a0in Chemistry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}