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UWI awards research excellence on Campus

For Release Upon Receipt - October 10, 2012

St. Augustine


The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Campus, in partnership with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, held its Research Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 3rd October, 2012, at UWI’s Daaga Auditorium. 

This ceremony was hosted by the Office of the Campus Principal and celebrated some of the outstanding and accomplished researchers at the Campus within the past three years. It was themed “Celebrating Research Excellence” and comprised two primary award categories, the Faculty Awards and Campus Awards, which each had their own sub-categories. Additionally, graduate students who completed their dissertations in the academic year 2010/11 and received high commendation were acknowledged, along with their academic supervisors.

The winners of this year’s Research Awards were:

Faculty Awards

Most Outstanding Researcher

Professor Kit Fai Pun

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Faculty of Engineering

 

Dr. Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick

Department of Liberal Arts

Faculty of Humanities and Education

 

Professor Vijay Naraynsingh

Department of Clinical Surgical Sciences

Faculty of Medical Sciences

 

Professor Dave Chadee

Department of Life Sciences

 

Faculty of Science and Agriculture

Dr. Moawia Alghalith

Department of Economics

Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Best Research Team – Encouraging Multi-disciplinary Research

mFisheries (Mobile Fisheries) Project Team

Team Leader – Dr. Kim Mallalieu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

 

Tropical Medicine Cluster: Infectious Diseases

Team Leader – Professor Abiodun Adesiyun, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences

 

Plant Genetics/Biotechnology Group

Team Leader – Professor Pathmanathan Umaharan, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Agriculture

 

Most Productive Research Department

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Head of Department, Professor Edwin Ekwue

 

Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education

Head of Department, Professor Valerie Youssef

 

Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Head of Department, Professor Jonas Addae

 

Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Faculty of Social Sciences

Director, Professor Patrick Watson

Graduate Student and Research Mentor Awards

 

Most Outstanding Graduate Researcher

Dr. Stephen Nigel Geofroy, PhD in Education (2011)

School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education

 

Dr. Albert Auguste, PhD in Molecular Genetics (2011)

Biochemistry Unit, Faculty of Medical Science

 

Outstanding Research Mentorship

Mr. Carol Keller

School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education

 

Professor Christine Carrington

Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences, School of Basic Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science

 

Campus Awards

Most Impacting Research Project

Improving the Competitiveness of the Anthurium Industry

Team Leader – Professor Pathmanathan Umaharan, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Agriculture

 

Most Internationally Successful Research Project

Project for Ecosystem Services (Proecoserv)

Team Leader – Professor John Agard, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Agriculture

For more information, contact the Office of the Campus Principal at 662-2002 ext. 83937 or via e-mail at principal@sta.uwi.edu.

 

For the latest UWI News, click http://sta.uwi.edu/news.

 

About UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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