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1988 – 1990<\/strong>: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Foundation<\/p>\n 1992, 93, 94 & 95<\/strong>: Rilett Scholarship, Illinois State University<\/p>\n 1992: <\/strong>Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Illinois State University (two awards)<\/p>\n 1993 – 1995<\/strong>: American Heart Association Fellowship, American Heart Association<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong>: Jack A Ward Scholarship, Illinois State University<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong>: First Place Award, Illinois State Academy of Science<\/p>\n 1994 & 95<\/strong>: Graduate Research Symposium Award, Illinois State University<\/p>\n 2005, 06 & 07<\/strong>: Presidential award for Research<\/p>\n <\/p>\n RESEARCH GRANTS<\/p>\n 2019 – 2022<\/strong>: \u201cEfficacy and welfare of Aversive Geofencing Devices for managing the movements of Asian elephants<\/em>\u201d – National Research Council .<\/p>\n 2019 – 2021<\/strong>: Proposal for Long Term conservation of Red Fin Labeo (Labeo lankae) Globally Critically Endangered fish species – Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong.<\/p>\n 2017 –<\/strong> 2019<\/strong>: \u201cIm<\/em>pact of linear developments on ecology of wildlife with special reference to roads, railways and power lines in Sri Lanka<\/em>\u201d – National Research Council.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 2007<\/strong>: Ecology and behavior of elephants in southern Sri Lanka in relation to their management and conservation – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n 2001 – 2003<\/strong>: \u201cTaxonomy of the golden palm civet<\/em>, Paradoxurus zeylonensis<\/em>\u201d – Biodiversity and Elephant Conservation Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n 2000 – 2003<\/strong>: Ecology and behavior of elephants in southern Sri Lanka in relation to their management and conservation – Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 2000 – 2004: <\/strong>\u201cDiversity, abundance, and species richness of canopy arthropods in Knuckles range and its spatial and temporal distribution related to canopy structure<\/em>\u201d -National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n 1997 – 1999:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cEcology and ranging behavior of wild elephants and human elephant conflict in the northwestern region of Sri Lanka<\/em>\u201d – UNDP, Department of Wildlife Conservation and Global Environmental Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AWARDS 1988 – 1990: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Foundation 1992, 93, 94 & 95: Rilett Scholarship, Illinois State University 1992: Outstanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/devaka-weerakoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}