SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER, 2018 – UWI TODAY
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CAMPUS NEWS
What if you remembered committing a murder
you
didn’t actually commit?This intriguing idea is part of the
2017 sci-fi thriller Battle of Memories, a film screened
by the Confucius Institute on Friday, October 26 as its
offering for Chinese Movie Night at UWI.
Held at theCentre for Language Learning auditorium
at the St Augustine campus, the movie is about a novelist
called Bo Huang who decides to have memories of his
ex-wife (Xu Jinglei) deleted following a painful divorce.
But when a glitch in the procedure causes him to receive
a killer’s memories instead, he gets dragged into a police
investigation regarding an unsolved murder.
The film is a mystery/thriller/crime movie directed
by Leste Chen, and first released on April 28, 2017. Two
hours long, it is written by Ryan Ren and stars BoHuang,
Yihong Duan, Wei-ning Hsu.
Australian film critic Juliana Purnell had this to say
about the film in her May 5, 2017 review posted on the
website Geeks Under Grace:
Poster for the Chinese movie Battle of Memories.
Over 30 budding scholars
will be breakfastingwithUWI
academia at the University Inn and Conference Centre
onNovember 30 as part of UWI’s efforts to acknowledge
and celebrate new and returning scholarship students
enrolled in graduate programmes.
Scholarship awardees, supervisors and current
scholarship sponsors will meet and greet each other, as
UWI helps build useful interdisciplinary social networks
for collaboration and dissemination of knowledge.
All disciplines, faculties and many graduate
programmes are represented as the scholarships are
awarded across the university and include regional
students.
The breakfast will host UWI scholarship awardees
as well as those receiving scholarships from partner
institutions and granting bursaries to our students.
Among the external partners are Central Bank, Trinidad
andTobagoNetwork InformationCentre and the Sagicor
Group of Companies. Apart fromacknowledging current
scholarship partnerships, we are inviting a speaker from
The Department of Geography,
Faculty of Food
andAgriculture joins the international community
in celebrating Geography Awareness Week from
November 11 to 17 and is inviting students to
participate. This annual event engages secondary
school Geography and Environmental Science
students and UWI undergraduate students to
collaborate and discuss issues. Competitions are
open to students of all subject areas, and the theme
is “Climate Change Impacts”, which challenges
students to critically assess the impacts of climate
change on our environment.
Here are some highlights of the week:
• Film on climate change in Small Island
Developing States
• Free GIS workshop for entrepreneurs wishing
to learn how to use GIS tools to improve their
business
• Photo competition on the reality of climate
change, encouraging students to explore
impacts on a local scale through photography.
Deadline: November 4
• Class poster competition on the impacts of
climate change on the agricultural sector.
Deadline: October 31
• Secondary schools can also now join the
UWI’s Geography Club and take part in
Club events such as hikes, coastal clean-ups
and landscaping activities. Secondary school
students can also invite members of the UWI
Geography Department to their school to
hear more about its degree programmes,
projects and equipment.
For more information
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/uwista.geography/
Instagram:uwistageography
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B i o l o g i s t s , UWI
natura l s c i enti s t s ,
an ima l l ove r s and
anyone f a s c i na t e d
by t ropi ca l an ima l
and plant life will be
heading to Toco later
this month for the
seventh T&T Bioblitz
which takes place on the
weekend of November
17-18. Each Bioblitz
is an intense period of
biological surveying in
an attempt to record all
the living species within
a designated area.
Robinson’s mouse opossum is
not often seen but has been
spotted in the Toco area.
PHOTO: COURTESY T&T
FIELD NATURALISTS CLUB
“If one was to compare it to an American film,
then Battle of Memories is the dark, down-trodden
cousin of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. They
share a lot of the same core ideals, though Battle
of Memories sits firmly in the crime genre. The
film intriguingly touches on the idea of memories
impacting our current behavior. The cinematography
is wonderfully quirky, and the mystery unfolds,
interjected with nicely gelled moments of comedy
to lighten the deliciously dark mood. Yes, the story
has a number of flaws, but it’s an enjoyable romp
nonetheless, and Leste Chen must be commended
for attempting something different. You can tell he is
genuinely enjoying himself while creating this film.
His camera work is masterful and playful in some
shots. The actors also deliver strong performances. If
you’re into films like Minority Report or Total Recall,
or crime stories that have a bit of creative flair, then
definitely give Battle of Memories a go.”
BATTLE OF MEMORIES
Confucius Institute screens sci-fi mystery
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Chelsea Seetahal
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Professor Patricia Mohammed
Director, Graduate Studies and Research
Tel: (868) 662-2002, Ext 82003
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industry who we hope will bring industry perspectives
on the matter of translating research into innovative
solutions.
The event has the support of the Pro Vice Chancellor
for Graduate Studies and Research who is charged with
driving innovation and entrepreneurial goals of our
research enterprise. It also shows appreciation to research
supervisors for their hard work in helping students to
develop and advance various research projects. The
University expects the research of these students to be
cutting edge and also bring value to the society.
CELEBRATING OUR SCHOLARS
The Bioblitz event is a collaboration between the
UWI Zoology Museum and the T&T Field Naturalists’
Club. Volunteers for the event come from many places,
including staff and students from the University of the
West Indies Department of Life Sciences, members of the
T&T Serpentarium, and many other nature enthusiasts.
Last year’s Bioblitz in the beautiful Icacos peninsula
found 750 species of living beings, and included a
big biodiversity public display of banners, museum
specimens and live animals.
A display is expected this year, too, reflecting
specimens found in the Toco area. Both the teams of
experts and the public displays will be based at the Toco
Regional Complex, Cemetery Road, Toco. Members
of the public are welcome to visit the team here on the
Sunday between 7am and 2pm to discover more about
Toco’s biodiversity.
Bioblitz inToco
