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CELEBRATIONS
The 2016-2017 awardees were:
Excellence Award for Teaching
Dr Jacqueline Bridge
, Senior Lecturer Department of Mechanical
and Manufacturing and Engineering, St. Augustine Campus.
Excellence Award for Research Accomplishments
Professor Chris Oura
, School of Veterinary Medicine, St. Augustine Campus
and Professor Ian R. Hambleton, the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research
Centre, Cave Hill Campus (formerly the Chronic Disease Research Centre).
Professor Oura specialises in Veterinary Virology and Professor Hambleton is a
Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics.
Excellence in International Collaboration: Globalisation Award
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Professor John Agard
,
Principal Investigator. The Project for Ecosystem
Services, Department of Life Sciences, St. Augustine Campus
was a global
initiative aimed at better integrating ecosystem assessment and economic
valuation of ecosystem services into poverty reduction and national sustainable
development planning.
Six awards were presented
at The UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence 2016-2017. These awards recognise excellence in teaching,
administration and research accomplishments, service to the university community, contributions to public service, and all-round excellence
in a combination of two or more of these core areas and a departmental award for service and operational excellence. This year, two new
awards were added: Excellence inMulti-Campus Research Collaboration: the One-UWI Award and Excellence in International Collaboration:
the Globalisation Award. The ceremony was held at the Teaching and Learning Complex of The UWI St Augustine Campus on October 25.
Excellence Award for Contribution to Public Service
Dr. Indra Haraksingh
, Lecturer, Department of Physics,
St. Augustine Campus.
Excellence in Multi-Campus Research Collaboration:
The One UWI Award
Evaluation of the CARICOM Heads of Government 2007
Port of Spain Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Summit Declaration
– Dr T. Alafia Samuels
, Principal Investigator, the George Alleyne Chronic
Disease Research Centre, Cave Hill Campus (formerly the Chronic Disease
Research Centre). The project’s objective was to evaluate, seven years on, the
implementation of the CARICOM NCD Summit Political Declaration in order
to learn lessons to support and accelerate its further implementation. It involved
secondary data analysis for all 20 CARICOM countries, in-depth case studies in
seven countries and key informant interviews concerning non-communicable
diseases, the leading cause of death and disability in the region.
Chancellor of The UWI, Mr. Robert Bermudez, and Principal of the St. Augustine Campus, Professor Brian Copeland with recipients of the Awards for Excellence.
PHOTO: MARIA NUNES
The Mark of Excellence
The UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence 2016-2017
