INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Senior Professor Kapila Senevirathne has actually been selected as the Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC)
Kapila Seneviratne finished with a BSc (Special) Degree in Chemistry from the University of Kelaniya in 1990
in Chemistry from Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, and did his postdoctoral research studies at the University of British Columbia,
 He was a Commonwealth Fellowship of the University of Leeds, UK in 2010 and a Fulbright Fellow in the University of Massachusetts
Seneviratne is a distinguished researcher in the field of chemistry and nutrition of edible oils
He has worked as the Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2014 to 2017
 He is likewise the Chairman of the Research Council and the Chairman of the Ethics Review Committee of the University.
