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unusual facts about Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo



Abeyratne Ratnayaka

His granddaughter Professor Kshanika Hirimburegam, was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo.

Andrijana Videnović

Andrijana Videnović (born 1 September 1964) is a Serbian theater and movie actress and Associate Professor of Diction at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, in North Kosovo.

BEEBUG

Professor Krisantha Weerasuriya of Sri Lanka's University of Colombo noted the user group and its magazine to be "very helpful" in a 1988 issue of the BMJ.

College House

College House, Colombo, Sri Lanka is the administrative headquarters of the University of Colombo

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

In 1965, when Mathematics was still a department within the Faculty of Arts, four third-year mathematics students (Richard Shirley, Angus German, James G. Mitchell, and Bob Zarnke) wrote the WATFOR compiler for the FORTRAN programming language, under the direction of lecturer Peter Shantz.

Dušan Zbavitel

While still just a researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he taught Bengali at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (1950–1968).

Erik Lönnroth

In 1999, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald's Faculty of Arts.

Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo

Upgraded to a faculty in 1942 with the establishment of the University of Ceylon that year, it was moved completely to Peradeniya in the early 1950s.

Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya

Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya is the largest single faculty in the entire university system of Sri Lanka.

Farida Waller

She graduated from Ammartpanichnukul School in Krabi and She studied Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne

The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (abbreviated to GSHSS) is a part of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.

Gunapala Amarasinghe

He is currently a professor and the head of the Department of Prasutitantra and Kaumarabrithya (Ayurvedic Obstetrics and Pediatrics) of Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo.

Hana Andronikova

After attending high school in Zlín, she studied English and Czech at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.

Jan Kohout

Kohout is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.

Matěj Rejsek

As a young man he came to Prague to study at the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University in Prague.

Modestus Fernando

He holds a Masters degree in Human Rights from the University of Colombo.

Modestus Fernando has taught undergraduate courses on trends in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the University of Colombo.

Rienzi Crusz

Crusz received a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Colombo in 1948.

Sangamesh Saundattimath

He has served as a professor of Kannada at Karnatak University Dharwad, Gulbarga University for over 33 years and after retirement, he was selected as Emeritus Professor by U.G.C. He was holding number of Administrative Positions at the time of his service such as Dean Faculty of Arts, Chairman - Institute of Kannada studies (Gulbarga University), Student welfare Officer (Gulbarga University), Special Officer (P.G.Centre, Raichur) etc.

Sarath Kotagama

Sarath W. Kotagama is Head of the Department of Zoology, University of Colombo and has done extraordinary service to Sri Lanka as an ornithologist and Environmentalist.

University of Peradeniya library

It serves primarily the faculty of Arts.

University of Sri Lanka

The University of Sri Lanka was abolished and its six campuses were each elevated to independent, autonomous universities in their own right: University of Peradeniya, University of Colombo, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (Vidyodaya), University of Kelaniya, University of Moratuwa (Katubedda) and University of Jaffna.

Vidura College, Nawala

An old boy of Ananda College Colombo and a graduate of the University of Ceylon (University of Colombo), Mr. Sumanasekera holds a Diploma in Education in the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.


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