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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 5 NOVEMBER, 2017
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UWI CALENDAR
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EVENTS
NOVEMBER 2017
It’s your turn to give blood at the Sir Frank
Worrell Memorial Blood Drive. According to the
Red Cross a single donation can save the lives
of up to three people. The American Journal of
Epidemiology suggests that the life you save can
be your own as blood donors are 88% less likely
to suffer a heart attack. The drive takes place
from 9am to 4pm at the JFK Auditorium.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
PROFESSORIAL LECTURE
6pm
November 16
Noor Hassanali Auditorium
The UWI St. Augustine
The UWI Open Lectures Committee presents
the Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor
Paula Morgan. She is a Professor of West Indian
Literature and Culture and will speak on the
topic “Healing the Hurts of my People Slightly:
Discourses of Societal Violence and Trauma.”
For more information email UWISTAevents@sta.
uwi.edu or call 662-2002 ext. 83635
UWI-SRC MALL TOUR
Noon to 5 pm
November 25
Gulf City Mall
San Fernando
The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC)
continues their Outreach Campaign for persons
to learn more about earthquakes, volcanoes and
tsunamis; understand the behind the scenes of
Earth Science and related careers and win prizes.
Be there from noon to 5pm at Gulf City Mall!
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
HURRICANE HELP STILL NEEDED
The UWI St. Augustine
The Guild of Students in collaboration with
Division of Student Services and Development
(DSSD), continues ongoing relief efforts to
aid Caribbean nations that have been devastated
by hurricanes. Items such as toiletries, female
sanitary products, baby supplies and medical
supplies are needed. All contributions can be
placed in collection boxes that can be found
at: DSSD Office (Lloyd Braithwaite Student
Administration Building, First Floor), Guild
Office, All Faculty main offices, All Hall lobbies
and the Institute of International Relations (IIR)
Secretariat Office.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
A TRIBUTE TO CLL
6 to 10 pm
Learning Resource Centre
November 17
The UWI St. Augustine
The Centre for Language Learning (CLL)
celebrates their 20th anniversary withThe Golden
Twenty – A Tribute to CLL: The End of Year
Concert. Tickets are $50 and available at the CLL
Office.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
DISTINGUISHED OPEN LECTURE
BY NOBEL LAUREATE
6pm
November 23
The UWI St. Augustine
The UWI S t . Augus t i ne Campus and
CARISCIENCE presents the Distinguished Open
Lecture by Nobel Laureate, Professor Françoise
Barre-Sinoussi. Professor Françoise Barré-
Sinoussi a French virologist is Director of the
Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (Unité
de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) and
Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.
She performed some of the fundamental work in
the identification of the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. In 2008,
Professor Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with
her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their
discovery of HIV.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
FMS FACULTY RESEARCH DAY
9am to 4pm
Amphitheatres A and B
November 9
Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex
The Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) presents
their Faculty Research Day – One University,
One Health, One Faculty. Check out displays,
presentations and posters by the Faculty’s schools
and departments.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
LEARN PROTOCOL, DIPLOMACY AND
BUSINESS ETIQUETTE WITH DAOC
November 13 to 15
The UWI St. Augustine
TheDiplomaticAcademyoftheCaribbean(DAOC)
presents the Executive Certificate in Protocol,
Diplomacy and Business Etiquette programme
with Gail Guy, Protocol Consultant and Retired
Diplomat. The programme takes place from 9am
to 4pm at DAOC. The cost is US$500/TT$3,395.
For more information,
please visit
DONATE BLOOD
9am to 4pm
November 7
JFK Auditorium
UWI St. Augustine
