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New names for UWI buildings

For Release Upon Receipt - August 3, 2012

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Finance and General Purposes Committee (F&GPC) held a meeting at The UWI’s Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, on May 25th, 2012. At this meeting, the committee ratified the following decisions made by its Naming Committee:

1. To name the Faculty of Law’s auditorium, St. Augustine Campus, “The Noor Hassanali Auditorium,” after the second President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

2.To name two facilities within the Department of Food Production, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, St. Augustine Campus, “The UWI Rajendra Rastogi Rabbitry,” and “The Lawrence Wilson Food Biology Laboratory.”

3. To name the new Vice-Chancellery Building at the Mona Campus, “The University of the West Indies – Regional Headquarters.”

For further information, please contact the Office of the University Registrar, UWI Mona Campus, at (876) 977-2407, or via e-mail at oadmin@uwimona.edu.jm.  End

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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, 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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