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UWI celebrates its National Award Recipients

For Release Upon Receipt - October 2, 2019

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. October 2, 2019 - The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus joins with the national community in congratulating the recipients of the 2019 National Awards.

Among this year’s National Award recipients are current and former staff and as well as alumni of The UWI. Notably, this includes:

Professor Bharath Bassaw - Current Head, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medical Sciences. Professor Bassaw was awarded the Chaconia Gold Medal for his valuable work in the sphere of medicine.

Professor Emeritus Lawrence D. Carrington – Former Professor of Creole Linguistics – Educational Research & Development and former head of The UWI Mona School for Continuing Studies, who led the development of the UWI Open Campus. Professor Carrington was awarded the Chaconia Gold Medal for language and development.

Dr Maura Imbert – Former Demonstrator and Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Research Assistant, Root Crop Programme, Biological Sciences. Dr. Imbert was awarded the Humming Bird Gold medal for her role in astronomy and research.

Professor Patricia Mohammed - Former Head, Institute of Gender and Development Studies and  Director, Graduate Studies & Research. She was awarded the Gold Medal for the Development of Women. Professor Mohammed was a pioneer in the development of the feminist movement in the Region of Gender and Development Studies at The UWI St. Augustine Campus.

Dr Jasmine Stella Ramcharan - Former Lecturer in Child Health. She was awarded the Gold Public Service Medal of Merit for her role in child development and advances in the field of paediatrics.

Dr Lesley Ann Roberts –  Former part-time lecturer who graduated with her MBBS degree from The UWI, Mona Campus. Dr. Roberts was awarded the Humming Bird Gold Medal for her role in nephrology and kidney-related research.

Dr William Dhanessar -  Graduated with his MBBS from The UWI Mona Campus. He was awarded the Public Service Medal of Merit (Gold) for his role in oncology and cancer research.

With ‘excellence’ as one of The UWI’s core values, the institution aims to serve its stakeholders by delivering consistently high-quality and relevant service, benchmarked against international standards and operational best practices.

Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal of The UWI St. Augustine, Professor Brian Copeland, who is also former national award recipient himself extended heartfelt congratulations to the National Award recipients, thanking them for their contributions both to The UWI and wider community. “We value the hard work and dedication of our UWI family, they have certainly made us proud and it is so encouraging to see that their respective achievements have been recognised on a national level,” said Professor Copeland.

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About The UWI

For more than 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider world. The UWI evolved from a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally respected, regional university with near 50,000 students across five campuses: Cave Hill in Barbados; Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda; Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago; and an Open Campus. Times Higher Education has ranked The UWI among the top 1,258 universities in world for 2019, and the 40 best universities in its Latin America Rankings for 2018 and 2019. The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists.

As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa including the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development; the Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute with Brock University; the Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric Development with Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES); The UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. As the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost objective is driving the growth and development of the regional economy. For more, visit 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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