Principal’s Award for Best Researcher (Joint Award)

Professor Adesh Ramsubhag – Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Roger Hosein – Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences

Principal’s Special Innovation Award

Mr. Nishan Rampersad – Innovation: “Human Resources Promotion Tracking Solution”, Campus Information Technology Services (CITS)

Most Outstanding Faculty Researchers

Professor Michelle Mycoo – Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management

Dr. Ronald Roopnarine – Faculty of Food and Agriculture, Department of Food Production

Professor Jerome De Lisle – Faculty of Humanities and Education, School of Education

Dr. Justin Koo – Faculty of Law

Dr. Shastri Motilal – Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Para-clinical Sciences

Dr. Richard Taylor – Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry

Dr. Riann Singh, Senior Lecturer & Dr. Wendell Wallace, Senior Lecturer – Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Management Studies & Department of Behavioural Sciences

Most Outstanding Researcher of the Centre/Institute/Unit

Dr. Preeya Mohan – Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies

Most Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award & Mentorship Award

Graduate Student: Dr. Amanda Christine Ramdass

Supervisor: Dr. Shephra Rampersad, Senior Lecturer

Thesis: Biochemical and Genomic Features of Hydrocarbonoclastic Microbes in Trinidad

PhD in Biochemistry with High Commendation

Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology

Most Promising Early Career Researcher Award

Dr. Preeya Mohan – Senior Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies

Dr. Oshaine Blake – Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Best Team Research

Dr. Ricardo Clarke & Dr. Xsitaaz Chadee & Team – Project: Sustainable Futures: Building Resilient Communities through Health, Infrastructure, and Clean Energy

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology

Most Outstanding Regional/International Research Project

Dr. Sandeep B. Maharaj & Team

Project: Connecting Climate Minds

School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Award Committee’s Selection for Special Recognition – Most Outstanding International/Regional Research Project

Mr. Andreas Antonopoulos & Ms. Deboleena Paul

Documentary Film “CHEENEE”

Faculty of Humanities and Education

Most Productive Research Department Award

Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences

Head of the Department, Prof. Venkatesan Sundaram & Staff, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Most Productive Research Institute, Centre, or Unit Award

Seismic Research Centre, Director Dr. Erouscilla Joseph & Staff

Hurricane and Earthquake Alleviation Research (HEAR) Award

Dr. Karla Georges & Team – Project: Regional coordination for disaster preparedness and mitigation activities to relieve animal suffering and safeguard the agricultural and livestock sector

School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Special Mention for Innovation under HEAR Award Category

Mr. Manoj Kollam – PhD Scholar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Project: Earthquake forecasting models through the Chaotic Chimp-Based African Vulture Optimization Algorithm (CCAVOA) combined with CUDA-accelerated Levenberg-Marquardt Backpropagation Neural Networks (LM-BPNN)

HEAR Award Certificate of Recognition for “Circular Housing for Hurricane Prone Areas”

Khaion Maitland – Secondary School Student, Queens Royal College

HEAR Award Certificate of Recognition for Proposing “Solutions for Hurricane and Earthquake Alleviation”

Joshua Maraj – Secondary School Student, Fatima College

Principal’s Award for Most Impactful Community Research

Professor Shirin Haque

Project: Women In Science for Hope Foundation, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology