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25 Distinguished UWI Alumni to be honoured

For Release Upon Receipt - July 16, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad & Tobago – Twenty-five Distinguished UWI Alumni will be specially honoured by their peers at The University of the West Indies Alumni Association (UWIAA) 2nd Biennial Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA) to be held in November 2013.  

The 2013 edition of the UWIAA Distinguished Alumni Awards will coincide with celebrations of the Trinidad & Tobago Chapter’s 25th anniversary and follows on the 2011 edition in which 50 UWI Alumni (including the Chief Justice and current and past Governors of the Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago) were selected from across each of the then 50 years of existence of the St. Augustine Campus. In 2013, one of the 25 Distinguished Alumni will be conferred with the prestigious Pelican Award, the University’s highest Alumni peer award. 

This 2013 cohort of 25 Alumni will commemorate the achievement of graduates from any UWI degree, diploma or certificate programme. “Selecting 25 distinguished alumni from more than 40,000 UWI Alumni from over 60 years will be a mammoth yet highly enjoyable challenge for the committee. The committee will endeavour to find exceptional examples from the many leading professionals and personalities that have graduated from The UWI,” said Cheridan Woodruffe, Co-Chair of the selection committee and President of the Trinidad & Tobago Chapter of the UWI Alumni Association. 

Awardees will be selected by a bipartisan committee of Campus academic staff and executive members of the Trinidad and Tobago Chapter of the UWIAA. Nominations are invited from the general public as well as from professional associations both locally and regionally. The deadline for nominations is August 16, 2013.  

For further information, please contact the UWIAA (Trinidad & Tobago Chapter) c/o Office of Institutional Advancement and Internationalisation, UWI St. Augustine at 662-2002 ext. 82683, (868) 224-3740 or via email at alumni@sta.uwi.edu.

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ABOUT THE UWI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Trinidad & Tobago Chapter)

The University of the West Indies (UWI) Alumni Association was established under the University’s charter, from which it derives its authority. The UWI Alumni Association (Trinidad & Tobago Chapter) (UWIAATT) was re-established in November 1988 and serves as the representative body of the more than 40,000 UWI Alumni based in Trinidad and Tobago.  

From politics to business, science, education and the arts, in both the public and private sectors, UWI Alumni hold positions of leadership, influence or prominence.  

Over the past 25 years the UWIAATT has epitomised its motto, “We give something back to The UWI”, through the contribution of financial and human resources to The UWI via its St. Augustine Campus. The originator of the highly successful “World of Work” series for students, the UWIAATT has from its inception provided five annual bursaries to needy students and over the past 18 years, has provided mentorship and guidance to more than 4,000 students at the St. Augustine Campus.  

About THE 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, 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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