OUR CAMPUS – 04
UWI’s path to
improvement
Sir Dennis Byron
on Chancellor’s
Commission
PUBLIC AFFAIRS – 07
Moving slow?
Symposium focuses on
transport in T&T
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY – 08
Medicinal,
recreational,
spiritual
Expert
panel takes
on cannabis
OUR PEOPLE – 14
A career of ideas and activism
Professor Patricia Mohammed retires
This is not a stock image. This photo shows postgraduate researchers Reco Phillips and Luke Benjamin
hard at work in the chemistry lab at The UWI St Augustine Campus’
Teaching and Learning Complex (TLC). In addition to fully-equipped lecture theatres, TLC also houses state-of-the-art labs for chemistry and biotech research as well as teaching.
Chemists such as Reco, Luke and others work in areas like liquid crystals (used in display screens for devices such as smartphones), solar cell technology, and synthetic polymers with
potential uses in the medical industry.
“We can do anything here that can be done anywhere else in the world,”
says researcher Imran Lourenço, speaking of the potential for scientific
breakthroughs at the UWI labs. And breakthroughs can lead to new opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation, one of the main goals of The UWI. This May, TLC also hosted
the first
Science and Technology Week
, an initiative of the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST). Themed
“Science in Communities”
, the event focused on the ideas and research
coming out of FST, other faculties and the wider society, and the finding solutions to challenges faced by communities throughout the region and world.
PHOTO: ATIBA CUDJOE
Real Science,
Homegrown
