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UWI recognizes outstanding researchers with NGC’s support

For Release Upon Receipt - June 7, 2016

St. Augustine


For more than 55 years, The UWI St. Augustine Campus has undertaken and produced exemplary research in a wide range of disciplines. Through the campus’ research, innovation and knowledge transfer, The UWI has made significant contributions to national and regional development and The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) has been a longstanding supporter of the research emanating from the institution. On Wednesday 8th June, 2016, the Campus will host its 3rd biennial UWI-NGC Research Awards ceremony, paying tribute to The UWI’s outstanding researchers, both staff and students, who have excelled in their research endeavours, particularly those whose research efforts have benefitted the people of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean region.

The UWI-NGC Research Awards initiative is organised under the auspices of the Office of the Campus Principal with the generous support of The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited. In 2013, NGC affirmed its commitment to supporting the activities of the University through sponsorship of three main initiatives: the Research Awards Ceremony, the Research Forum and a Professorial Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This commitment was formalized in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), for a period of 5 years backed by a TT$7.15 million commitment to undertaking these initiatives, disbursed in annual increments. NGC recently presented The UWI St. Augustine with the cheque to concretize its commitment for the 2016 activities, in the sum of $TT1.5 million.  

This year’s Research Awards Ceremony will feature awards in four main categories, as follows:

 

  • Campus Awards: Most Productive Research Unit, Centre or Institute, Most Impacting Research Project, Most Outstanding Regional Research Project and Most Outstanding International Research Project

  • Faculty Awards: Most Outstanding Researcher, Most Productive Research Department and Best Research Team - Encouraging Multi-disciplinary Research

  • Graduate Student Awards: Most Outstanding Graduate Researcher - Arts/ Humanities/ Social Sciences 2013/2014, Most Outstanding Graduate Researcher - Sciences 2013/2014, Most Outstanding Graduate Researcher - Arts/ Humanities/ Social Sciences 2014/2015 and Most Outstanding Graduate Researcher - Sciences 2014/2015

  • Graduate Student Mentor Awards: Outstanding Research Mentorship - Arts/ Humanities/ Social Sciences 2013/2014, Outstanding Research Mentorship - Sciences 2013/2014, Outstanding Research Mentorship - Arts/ Humanities/ Social Sciences 2014/2015 and Outstanding Research Mentorship - Sciences 2014/2015

     

 The Awards Ceremony will be held from 5:30pm at the campus’ Learning Resource Centre. Interested in attending? Email campusevents@sta.uwi.edu to RSVP. Full details can be found on the website https://sta.uwi.edu/researchawards/index.asp.

 

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About The UWI

Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation. Website: http://www.uwi.edu/

(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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