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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST, 2014
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UWI Calendar
of
Events
AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2014
Mediation TrainingWorkshops
August 12-15, 2014
St. Augustine Campus
The Department of Behavioural Sciences hosts
twoMediation TrainingWorkshops fromAugust
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
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
Matriculation and
Welcome Ceremony
September 18, 2014
St. Augustine Campus
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
onwhich 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
AmazonianWildlife
August 17-22, 2014
The UWI, UTT
The Department of Food Production hosts
XICIMFAUNA the 11th Conference on
Management of AmazonianWildlife: Alternative
Sustainable Conservation&UtilizationMethods
for Neo-tropical Animals at the campuses ofThe
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
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.
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.
CAMPUS TOURS
August 18-29, 9am to 2pm
Faculty Tours for all new first year students
CHECK-IN
August 23-24
Weekend orientation activities for regional and
international students
KNOWYOUR FACULTY
August 25-27, September 2-5
Orientation events for Faculties
UWI Life Support
August 28, 6pm
For parents, guardians and spouses
UWI Life Student
and Information Village
August 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
