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Kenneth De Abrew, is a Junior, Zoology and Theater major. Kenneth is from the ancient city of Kandy. Kenneth attended Trinity College, Kandy where he completed his A/L's in 2000. Kenneth is a Junior and is playing an active role in the activities of the University. He managed to play a part in the drama, "Accidental Doctor", in his first semester. Kenneth has been very active in the theater department and has taken part in many plays on campus. He played the role of Katz in "Full Circle" and Caliban in Tempest and Dr. Anagnos in the Miracle Worker. The brave Trinitian has ventured to direct a play from the great Samuel Becket for his senior project and is currently involved with two theater productions. Kenneth is also a founding member of "Midnight Monorail", an improv beatbox group. Kenneth works in the Library during the school year and at Pizza hut during the summer. Kenneth's brother Nadira, graduated from OWU in 1998 and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Toxicology at University of Wisconsin Madison.

e-Mail Kenneth : kkdeabre@owu.edu

Gehan Welipolage Gehan Perera, is a Junior Math major who is from the city of Colombo. He attended Royal College in Colombo and he sat for the London A/L s. His brother graduated from OWU in 1994 and recently successfully completed his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cleveland and is teaching at the University of Chicago. Gehan is a very big Hilander fan and loves to watch Highlander, he is also a big figure skating and motor cycle racing fan. He has bravely started fooling around with web design and you can view his first site at http://go.owu.edu/~wgperera/. Gehan is planning to pursue graduate school in Mathematics and is currently applying for Fall 2005. e-Mail Gehan : wgperera@owu.edu

Charini Charini Deshika Perera, is a Senior Astro Physics and Psycology Major. She was the only girl from Sri Lanka in OWU for a while(Now there are four more-three of whom are sisters). She is from the industrial city of Colombo where she went to school at Visaka Vidyalya. Charini is a strong supporter of Royal College leading to some good humured arguments with the Trinitians. Charini also works at the library when school is in session. She took part in the Culture Fest by cooking kiribath and she cooked (along with Nadinath and Sahan) a chicken curry for the Sangam cookout in 2002. During the summer of 2004 Charini worked with Prof. Robert Harmon in the Department of Physics and Astronomy on searching for transits of exosolar planets. She will be presenting her research at the Summer Science Research Symposium in Fall 2004. Charini is planning to attend graduate school in Fall 2005. e-Mail Charini : cdperera@owu.edu

Rushini Rushini Shanika Perera, is a Junior Biology major who is from the city of Colombo. She attended Visaka Vidyala in Colombo and she sat for her A/L's at Stafford International. Her sister (Charini) is a current student at Ohio Wesleyan University and her other sister Thilani is also a student at OWU. During the summer of 2004 Rushini worked with Dr. Ramon Carreno in the Zoology Department on a "Phylogenetic Analysis of some Trichostrongyloid Parasitic Nematodes as inferred from Ribosomal RNA gene sequences" (Its sort of greek to me :). Rushini will be presenting her research at the Summer Science Research Symposium in Fall 2004. e-Mail Rushini : rsperera@owu.edu

Khalid Ahmed Khalid Zubair, is a Junior Computer Science major from Kandy. He attended Trinity College in Kandy where he sat for the A/L s. He has also taken courses in APIT in Colombo while waiting to come Ohio Wesleyan University. Khalid is involved with the Ohio Wesleyan Chapter of ACM and is a member of Tauheed, the Muslim Student organisation. Khalid works on web design in his spare time and has a quite an impressive portfolio already. He has represented OWU in many programming competitions including the ACM regionals. e-Mail Khalid: akzubair@owu.edu

Lushani Lushani Chaya Nanayakkara, is a Sophomore Biology major from Colombo. She is a very active student and has been helping with Horizons and was involved in cooking an awesome chicken curry for culture fest 2003. Lushani has also started playing rugby for the OWU rugby team and plays an active part on the rugby team. Lushani's sister, Ashika Nanayakkara, in the black top standing next to Lushani attends Ottebein College in Columbus Ohio. e-Mail Lushani:

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Nadinath N. M. Nadinath B. Nillegoda (yep that's a really long name) was a Zoology Major (concentrated in genetics). Nadinath is from the lucious city of Kandy. He attended "The best school of all", Trinity College, where completed his A/Ls in 1998. Nadinath has taken part in many research activities. During the summer of 2001 he went on a 5 week road trip throughtout the US to collect samples for his research on Feather Degrading Bacteria on wild bird plumages with Dr. E. H. Burtt, Jr.,. In 2002 Nadinath took part in another on campus research program with Dr. Marten J. Edwards where he studied goldfish keratocytes and aspects of Aegis Egypt mosquitoe egg development using DIC and LSEM (Laser Scaning Electron Microscopy). In the summer of 2003 Nadinath got an internship in New York where he was doing research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Nadinath loves Pussy cats bred in the USA! <He wanted that up>. During school Nadinath worked in the library and he grades for the chemistry department. Nadinath graduated in 2004 and he is currently working in Mount Sinai School of Medicine as a lab assistant. He is also preparing for graduate school starting from Fall 2005. e-Mail Nadinath : nadinath@hotmail.com

Check out evolution!- Hair today, gone tomorrow!!

Sahan Sahan T. M. Dissanayake, was a Computer Science and Economics Major. He is from the green city of Kandy. Sahan attended, "The best school of all", Trinity College where he completed his A/L's in 1998. Sahan has been a active student on campus. He engaged in research on Josephson Junctions with Dr. Brad Trees over the summer of 2001. Sahan was on the Honors Board, the president of the OWU ACM chapter and has represented OWU in many programming competitions including the ACM regionals. He was on the Board of Horiznos International and Sangam. He was also the online-editor for the school paper, The Transcript. His senior year, Sahan worked as the StAP student for the Director of Web Services. Sahan worked as a camp coulselor for OWjL camp and he tutored ECON110 and conducted Wen Design classes for Upward Bound for three consecutive years. Sahan likes to design web pages as a hobby and he enjoyes reading, Specially sci-fic and fantasy. Sahan is currently working at Ohio Wesleyan University as the Web Services Coordinator. He also pursuing his graduate school options for Fall 2005. e-Mail Sahan : stdissan@owu.edu url : http://sahan.org

Charith Charith Perera, graduated in 2003. He is from the capitol of Sri Lanka, where he attended school at St Thomas College, and the Royal Institute. His brother, Nalin, left OWU in 2001 and went to Washington University to complete his 3-2 in Engineering. Charith was an active student on campus and was the President of the ACM chapter in the school. He is also into programming the Robo-Mindstrom set. Charith has represented OWU in many programming competitions including the ACM regionals. He undertook an internship in Florida over the summer of 2001. Charith is now working at Intertechmedia in Connecticut. e-Mail Charith : cjperera@owu.edu