We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievement of Ms. D.A.D.D. Dissanayake (Dinithi), a final-year student in our Physics Honours Degree Programme, whose research presentation made a remarkable impact at the 11th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches 2025, organized by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, USJ.
Dinithi was awarded First Place for her Oral Presentation in the Engineering, Physical Sciences and Technological Innovation category. This award recognizes both the scientific merit of Dinithi and her team’s work and the clarity and confidence with which she communicated their findings.
Their project, titled “Development of an Experiment for Studying Radiation Effects on Groundnut Growth Under Microgravity”, explored the frontier of space biology and radiation physics. With growing interest in sustainable life-support systems for long-term space missions, the team’s research represents a timely and innovative contribution to interdisciplinary science.
We congratulate Dinithi and the team on this well-deserved recognition and look forward to the exciting future she is paving in research at the intersection of physics, biology, and space science.