{"id":1359,"date":"2019-02-20T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:57:52","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-head-prof-dhashani-mahaulpataha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/2019\/02\/20\/welcome-to-the-new-head-prof-dhashani-mahaulpataha\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the new Head, Prof. Dharshani Mahaulpatha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Zoology delighted to welcome the newly appointed head, \u00a0Prof. Dharshani Mahaulpatha, who took up her new role on 18<sup>th<\/sup> January 2019. All members of the department gathered the occasion to wish her every success. The department expecting an exciting term ahead !!<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":20,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/science.sjp.ac.lk\\\/zoo\\\/2019\\\/02\\\/20\\\/welcome-to-the-new-head-prof-dhashani-mahaulpataha\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-width=\"847\"><div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 842px; height: 372px;\"><div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 593px; height: 376px;\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/img-0102\/\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1356\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/02\/IMG-0102.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"680,430\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1550659401&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img-0102\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/02\/IMG-0102-300x190.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/02\/IMG-0102.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/02\/IMG-0102-589x372.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"372\" align=\"left\" title=\"img-0102\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 249px; 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All members of the department gathered the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/2019\/02\/20\/welcome-to-the-new-head-prof-dhashani-mahaulpataha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the new Head, Prof. Dharshani Mahaulpatha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}