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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 13TH MARCH, 2016
CAMPUS NEWS
Dr. Chandra Mukherji,
Visiting Lecturer in Hindi
at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL), hosted a
one-day workshop, “Orientation for Hindi Learners”
for learners and teachers of Hindi on February 21.
The workshop, held in collaboration with the Indian
High Commission was officially opened by HE Sri
Gouri Shanka Gupta, High Commissioner for the
Republic of India. Pundit Dr. Rampersad Parasram
spoke on “Development of Hindi in Trinidad &
Tobago.” Another participant was Dr. Deepak Kumar
Pandey, Second Secretary for Hindi and Culture of the
High Commission. The participants and visitors were
welcomed to the CLL and the Campus by Dr. Beverly-
Anne Carter, Director of the CLL.
Trafficking in narcotics and people;
natural disasters; security and defence – issues
which are significant within the Organisation of American States (OAS) – are high
on the agenda when Rear Admiral Martha Herb, Director, Inter-American Defense
College (IADC) returns to Trinidad and Tobago with her class in April.
The Rear Admiral was in the country in mid-February and paid a courtesy call
to PVC and Campus Principal, Professor Clement Sankat, where she told him that
this was actually an advance visit before her class arrives under an arrangement
with the T&T Government and the Defence Force.
The IADC operates under the aegis and funding of the OAS and the Inter-
American Defense Board. It provides a professionally oriented, multidisciplinary,
graduate-level course of study over an eleven-month programme, giving students
opportunities to travel abroad and to study security issues.
It seems a little odd
to associate a jazz concert with a cake sale, but to complicate
it with an actuarial science seminar takes it just over the edge. Maybe this is
what the Department of Mathematics and Statistics was trying to achieve when
they softened their seminar with a bit of jazz brought in by Samuel Broverman,
a full-time professor in Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Toronto.
Broverman, at 60, has never been able to separate his music from his math, and
that’s what he did at the seminar on February 18.
Dr. Chandra Mukherji is surrounded by workshop participants as they show off their certificates.
Dr. Mukherji who arrived in Trinidad and Tobago
in October 2015 is on assignment from Government
Degree College for Women, Begumpet, Hyderabad,
Teĺangana State, India where she is Associate Professor
and Head of the Department of Hindi. She is the
most recent academic who has been sent to UWI St.
Augustine by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations
to support the teaching of Hindi as a foreign language.
Dr. Mukherji is already making her presence felt both
in and out of class with activities such as this workshop
and her role leading her students in song in the CLL’s
end-of-year concert in November 2015.
Hindi is one of the 10 foreign languages taught at
the CLL. Conversation classes will be offered in the
mid-year programme which runs fromMay 02 to July
28. Registration for Semester 1 classes 2016/2017 will
begin on August 22. Find out more about Hindi at
the CLL
Learning
HINDI
Making
Music
AdvanceVisit byRearAdmiral
Rear
Admiral
presents
Professor
Sankat with
a token.
