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Four UWI Lecturers Appointed Professor

For Release Upon Receipt - July 11, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad & Tobago – The Office of Administration at the Vice-Chancellery of The University of the West Indies (UWI) is pleased to announce that four of its Senior Lecturers have been promoted to the rank of Professor based on their academic qualifications, research achievements and active involvement in the University community. These are Drs Moawia Alghalith, Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe, Michael Taylor and Wendel Abel.

Professor Moawia Alghalith obtained the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics from Northern Illinois University in the USA. He joined the academic staff of The UWI in 2008 and is currently the Graduate Coordinator for the MSc Economics Programme. His service to the University is highlighted by the design of a new course - Advanced Financial Economics - and his contribution to the development of a new MSc Programme in Financial Economics at the St. Augustine Campus.  

Professor Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe is a UWI Alum, having obtained her Doctor of Medicine (Internal Medicine) degree in 1990 at the University. Professor Wright-Pascoe has had an integral role in curriculum development at The UWI, Mona Campus, and for her meritorious service in the fields of medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, Professor Wright-Pascoe has been appointed Fellow of several eminent colleges, including the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology. 

 Professor Michael Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science and Technology at The UWI Mona Campus. His academic specialisation lies in Environmental Physics. Professor Taylor’s service to the University is underscored by his notable record of accomplishment – he is the director for the Climate Studies Group, Mona, head of the Department of Physics since 2009, has organised several regional conferences and workshops on climate change and is a member of a number of academic boards of The UWI. 

Professor Wendel Abel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Community Health & Psychiatry and also heads the Section of Psychiatry at The UWI Mona Campus. His research is focussed on mental health policy and service system development and has been the recipient of several honours and awards for his work in the field. Professor Abel’s contributions to the University include his position as Assistant Editor of the West Indian Medical Journal, Chairman of the Specialty Board for Psychiatry and a member of The UWI Accreditation Committee. It was agreed that the title of his professorship would be: Professor of Mental Health. 

These professorial appointments took effect on May 29th, 2013.

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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, Bermuda, 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 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 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, Science & Technology, Food & 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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