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USJ undergraduate selected for the LGS-SOAR/SURE Program at Emory University
Rahul Silva, one of our physics special students, was selected to participate in the Laney Graduate School, Summer Opportunity for Academic Research (LGS-SOAR) Program within the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program at Emory University.  He will get the opportunity to participate in a 10-week remote program that will provide research materials and communicate with current Laney graduate school scholars who conduct research in various disciplines.

We congratulate him on his achievement and wish him a great future ahead.

USJ alumni: CERI graduate student Anuradha Mahanama (Maha) becomes a finalist in the NASA InSightSeers Program

CERI PhD student in Geophysics and Seismology Anuradha Mahanama (Maha) received an opportunity to participate in the NASA InSightSeers program to expose early carrier scientists to experience working on a mission science team.

Maha graduated from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science Degree Specialized in Physics. He received a Masters’s degree from Bowling Green State University in 2019 and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Memphis, Tennessee (The Centre for Earthquake Research Information – CERI)

InSight was a Mars geophysical mission that officially ended in 2022 but remains active with data analysis and archiving. Maha was one of the ten applicants chosen for this final round of the InSightSeers program based on his career paths and the alignment of their research interests with the mission’s scientific objectives.

We are proud and honoured to witness the success of one of our alums. Congratulations Maha, for your outstanding accomplishment, and we wish you the best in your future endeavours.