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UWI Calendar August - September 2014

Mediation Training Workshops
August 12-15, 2014
St. Augustine Campus

The Department of Behavioural Sciences hosts two Mediation Training Workshops from August 12-15, 2014, at the Faculty of Social Sciences lounge:

• Industrial Relations and Negotiations in Mediation – August 12-13, 2014
• Peer Mediation – August 14-15, 2014

Each workshop is geared towards a different target audience. Both professionals and students are welcome to register.

For more information, please visit the Campus Events Calendar at www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar

Rhythm and Sound
August 16, 2014
UWI Open Campus

The Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) Musical Arts Unit in conjunction with the Music Therapy Association of Trinidad and Tobago host the Inaugural Music Therapy Conference: Healing through Rhythm and Sound.

For further information, please contact Mr. Satanand Sharma at 776-8756, or Ms. Martina Chow at 464-2870.

Amazonian Wildlife
August 17-22, 2014
UWI, UTT

The Department of Food Production hostsXICIMFAUNAthe 11th Conference on Management of Amazonian Wildlife: Alternative Sustainable Conservation & Utilization Methods for Neo-tropical Animals at the campuses of The UWI and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). This is the first year the conference will be held in an English-speaking country.

For more information please visit www.xicimfauna.org

First Year Experience - UWI Life 2014
August 28-30, 2014
UWI SPEC, St Augustine Campus

As part of the year-long student orientation programme, First-Year Experience, UWI kicks things off in August with a three-day event that welcomes the estimated 5,000 undergraduate students entering the institution in the 2014/2015 academic year. The programme consists of three sessions geared towards family and supporters of the enrollees, part-time and mature students and first-year undergraduate students. Activities during the programme will include lectures, forums, games, giveaways and musical performances.

• UWI Life Support: Aug 28, 6pm
  For parents, guardians and spouses
  
  
• UWI Life Student and Information Village: Aug 29, 9am
  For first year/first-time undergraduate students
  
  
• UWI Life Prime: September 4th, 9.30am
  For mature, evening and postgraduate students

For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/fye

Guild Orientation 2014
Aug 27th-September 5th, 2014
St Augustine Campus

The UWI Guild Fest is the UWI St. Augustine Student Guild's orientation event. It is another component of the First Year Experience (FYE), The UWI's year-long orientation programme. The Guild Fest welcomes students to The UWI, and exposes them to out-of-classroom learning through club membership and other initiatives. It takes place at the Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC).

For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/fye

At the beginning of each academic year, The UWI hosts a Matriculation Ceremony for its new students. It is an important annual academic ritual, its significance being that it is the platform on which new students are officially initiated into and recognised as members ot the University's academic community.The UWI St. Augustine holds its annual Matriculation and Welcome Ceremony on Thursday September 18, 2014, at 5pm, at the JFK Quadrangle.

For more information, please visit the Campus Events Calendar at www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar