{"id":5209,"date":"2025-04-21T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:26:19","slug":"celebrating-undergraduate-excellence-a-stellar-presentation-on-space-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/celebrating-undergraduate-excellence-a-stellar-presentation-on-space-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence: A Stellar Presentation on Space Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1770\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5207\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.69140625;width:314px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-scaled.jpg 1770w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-768x1111.jpg 768w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-1062x1536.jpg 1062w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250421-WA0002-1416x2048.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1770px) 100vw, 1770px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievement of   <strong>Ms. D.A.D.D. Dissanayake (Dinithi)<\/strong>, a final-year student in our Physics Honours Degree Programme, whose research presentation made a remarkable impact at the <strong>11th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches 2025<\/strong>, organized by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, USJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dinithi was awarded <strong>First Place for her Oral Presentation in the Engineering, Physical Sciences and Technological Innovation <strong>category<\/strong><\/strong>. This award recognizes both the scientific merit of Dinithi and her team\u2019s work and the clarity and confidence with which she communicated their findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their project, titled <em><strong>\u201cDevelopment of an Experiment for Studying Radiation Effects on Groundnut Growth Under Microgravity\u201d<\/strong><\/em><strong>, <\/strong>explored the frontier of space biology and radiation physics. With growing interest in sustainable life-support systems for long-term space missions, the team\u2019s research represents a timely and innovative contribution to interdisciplinary science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We congratulate Dinithi and\u00a0the\u00a0team 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/celebrating-undergraduate-excellence-a-stellar-presentation-on-space-agriculture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence: A Stellar Presentation on Space Agriculture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}