{"id":93838,"date":"2019-10-13T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93838"},"modified":"2019-10-13T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:35:20","slug":"annual-general-meeting-of-the-sri-lanka-association-of-science-communicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/13\/annual-general-meeting-of-the-sri-lanka-association-of-science-communicators\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual General Meeting of The Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Association of Science\nCommunicators (SLASC) is an organization that represents journalists,\nacademics, researchers, students and citizens who are engaged in science\ncommunication in various ways in the country. SLASC held its inaugural annual\ngeneral meeting (AGM) on Thursday, 10<sup>th<\/sup> October 2019 at the\nauditorium of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo\n7. The initial steps to form this association were taken at a special\njournalist training program held at Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology\n(SLINTEC) in November 2018. Since then, a dedicated group of science\ncommunicators, with the help of prominent mentors in Sri Lanka, have kept the\nmomentum going, culminating in SLASC becoming officially active at this AGM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This association is an independent\norganization functioning on its own, with the guidance and supervision of the Sri\nLanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS). Mr. Sisira Kumara, an\neditor from the Sri Lankan Scientist Magazine acts as the Founding President of\nSLASC while senior science communicators including Mr. Nalaka Gunawardena, Dr.\nJayantha Waththawidana, Prof. Manuj Krishantha, Prof. Sanath Hettiarachchi, and\nMr. Thilina Kiringoda serve as the advisory committee of the association. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the inaugural AGM of SLASC, Mr.\nNalaka Gunawardena who is a renowned senior science writer, delivered the guest\nspeech. He talked about how local science communicators in the past fought\nagainst pseudo-scientific myths that arose from within the Sri Lankan Society\nfrom time to time. He specifically recalled the contributions of the late Prof.\nCarlo Fonseka as a legendary science communicator to the Sri Lankan\nsociety.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the association, media personnel, scientists, university students and other science communicators participated in the meeting. SLASC invites all people in Sri Lanka who are engaged in science communication to join the association and actively take part in its efforts to uplift the science communication in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators<\/strong><br><strong>Vidya Mandiraya, Vidya Mawatha<\/strong><br><strong>Colombo 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:slasc.info@gmail.com\"><strong>slasc.info@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><br><strong>Telephone &#8211; 0716855379<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators The Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators (SLASC) is an organization that represents journalists, academics, researchers, students and citizens who are engaged in science communication in various ways in the country. SLASC held its inaugural annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday, 10th October 2019 at the auditorium of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}