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Dr Ayesha Wickramasinghe from the Fashion Design and Product Development, Department of Textile and Apparel Engineering, University of Moratuwa, was honoured with the State Literacy Award 2022 for the Best Academic and Research work (English-2021). The award ceremony was held on the 28th of October 2022, at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) under the aegis of Hon. President Ranil Wickramasinghe, and was organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs. 

Impression of China: Cloud Tour of Chinese Architectural Culture is a “Chinese Bridge” Delegation Online study camp project hosted by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and organized by Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. The project aims to meet the needs of overseas students to learn practical Chinese and experience Chinese architectural culture through Chinese language lessons and Chinese architectural cultural events.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) of the University of Moratuwa organized an Open Day, on 17th August 2022, for the students who recently completed their undergraduate degrees.

This was the very first time, the FGS organized an event like this, which was participated by more than twenty young graduates.

Ms. Harshini Mallawaarachchi from the Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, has received the prestigious CVCD Excellence Award for the "Most Outstanding Young Researcher in the field of Technology, Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying and Information Technology".

The 8th international conference, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) 2022 organized by the Engineering Research Unit was successfully held in virtual mode from 27th to 29th July 2022.

The conference programme included 151 papers selected from 299 submissions. Total of 944 authors from 19 countries have submitted papers to MERCon 2022. This is the highest number of paper submissions in the history of the conference which is a significant milestone.

Prof. V.M. Wickramasinghe from the Department of Management of Technology, University of Moratuwa has received the prestigious “Most Outstanding Senior Researcher in the field of Management and Law” offered by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Directors Sri Lanka (CVCD). 

With the objective of allowing the Faculty of Business undergraduates to learn ERP systems as a part of the curriculum, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the University of Moratuwa (UoM) and the Blue Lotus 360 (Pvt) Ltd on 28th July 2022. The MoU was signed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa - Senior Prof. N. D. Gunawardena and the Chairman / CEO of the Blue Lotus 360 (Pvt) Ltd - Mr. Nadarajah Uthayakumar.