{"id":974,"date":"2018-05-10T07:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/?p=974"},"modified":"2023-03-09T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T07:26:08","slug":"15th-annual-academic-sessions-of-ousl-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"15<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Academic Sessions of OUSL (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"974\" class=\"elementor elementor-974\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1901d0af elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1901d0af\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-389b852f\" data-id=\"389b852f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e5f8791 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e5f8791\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>16<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; 17<sup>th<\/sup> November 2017<br \/><em>Theme: Opening minds: Research for Sustainable Development<\/em><\/p><p>Open University Research Sessions in 2017 (OURS 2017) was organized by the Senate Sub- Committee of OUSL on OURS 2017 chaired by Prof. G.W.A.R. Fernando, the Chairman of the Sub- Committee and the Director\/ Research.<\/p><p>The Chief Guest for the inaugural sessions was Prof Sarath Kotagama, Senior Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Colombo who gave the key note address while the Guest of Honour was Dr. Chandra Embuldeniya, the former Vice- Chancellor, Uva Wellassa University. The activities of OURS 2017 commenced on the 17th November 2017 with the inauguration at 9.00 a.m. in the Conference Hall of the University. The presentation on \u2018Opening minds: Research for Sustainable Development\u2018 by Prof Kotagama was well received by the audience while Dr. Embuldeniya gave some useful insights into the role the OUSL can play in the area of tertiary education.\u00a0<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/?p=974#more-974\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading 15th Annual Academic Sessions of OUSL (2017)\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open University Research Sessions in 2017 (OURS 2017) was organized by the Senate Sub- Committee of OUSL on OURS 2017 chaired by Prof. G.W.A.R. Fernando, the Chairman of the Sub- Committee and the Director\/ Research.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Guest for the inaugural sessions was Prof Sarath Kotagama, Senior Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Colombo who gave the key note address while the Guest of Honour was Dr. Chandra Embuldeniya, the former Vice- Chancellor, Uva Wellassa University. The activities of OURS 2017 commenced on the 17th November 2017 with the inauguration at 9.00 a.m. in the Conference Hall of the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peevious-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ours.ou.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}