This year’s Sri Lanka Day Expo will be held on August 7, 2010 at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. The event... »
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Academia
Leading The Conservation Movement to Protect Mother Nature
September 25, 2009 — An exclusive interview with Dr. M.A. Sanjayan, Lead Scientist at the Nature Conservancy. One can almost always guarantee that whenever the words ‘scientist’ is mentioned, images of microscopes, petri dishes, and lab coats come to mind. And while those items are perhaps quite essential to most scientists, and indeed telling... »
Sri Lanka Rises as Top Country in Quality Programmers at Google’s Summer of Code
September 21, 2009 — Google’s Summer of Code has established itself as one of the premiere student development programs around. In the recent five years, Sri Lanka has supplied companies that have entered the Summer of Code program a huge number of professionals in various programming-related domains. The Summer of Code program is a Google... »
Sri Lankan American Teacher Awarded
August 17, 2009 — Rebecca V. Perera of Pasadena, California was recently awarded the Platinum Apple Award for 2007 – 2008 by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). She was selected as a final winner in the category of Early Childhood Education by Platinum Apple Committee of UTLA in recognition of her excellence in teaching,... »
“Trade for Peace” by Dr. Patrick Mendis
May 20, 2009 — America’s founding mission has always been to promote trade to integrate the global community for peaceful living and unity as it was the case for the original 13 colonies in the Union. A combination of interstate commerce (not the religion) and freedom as depicted in the American Constitution paradoxically bound... »
Scholar Esther Benjamin Honored in Washington, D.C.
May 18, 2009 — The Ambassador of Sri Lanka hosted a dinner for Ms. Esther Benjamin, her family, and friends to honor Ms. Benjamin’s recognition as American University’s School of International Services Alumna of the Year. Benjamin, a native or Sri Lanka, was welcomed to the April 19th reception by Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya at... »
The Open Source Science Project
There are many of us who question the role that science plays in our lives. More specifically, we may find ourselves questioning how the information in front of us came to be what it is, and whether what we read and see in the news and other media are scientific ideas and conclusions that... »
Young Sri Lankan Wins Grand Prize at Siemens Competition
Two inquiring minds combined their energies to engage in months of extensive research, eventually presenting the public with a groundbreaking approach to develop chemotherapeutic drugs. Sajith Wickramasekara and his research partner, Andrew Guo, both students at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, entered the 2008 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology... »
Get to Know the Stars
Did you know that a small fraction of the static in your television is caused by the microwave afterglow from the Big Bang? Or that tides caused by the Moon are slowing down the Earth’s spin, thus making each day a little longer that the one before? Thanks to CoolCosmos, an outreach initiative... »