Professor Ranjith Pallegama has assumed duties as the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya with the vacancy created after Professor Terrance Madhujith assumed duties as the Vice Chancellor of the university. Professor Pallegama is a dental graduate of the university and also a graduate of the Medical and Dental University of Tokyo. He passed out from the University of Peradeniya in 1997 and entered the University as an Assistant Lecturer of the Faculty of Dental Medicine. - L B Senaratne