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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER, 2016
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UWI Calendar
of
Events
October 2016
COTE 2016
October 13 and 14
UWI, St. Augustine
The Department of Economics is hosting their
annual Conference on the Economy (COTE)
under the theme,Managing forDevelopment in a
Volatile Economic Environment: Addressing the
Diversification Challenges with feature speaker
Terrence W. Farrell. This year’s conference
will honour former Head of Department Mr
Martin Franklin and takes place at the Learning
Resource Centre Auditorium (LRC).
For more information visit
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DCFA Season of the Arts
October 23
6pm | Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards
(TTBS) Auditorium | A Night at the Movies –
Tamarau Dickson Student Recital
Save the date for the Department of Creative and
Festival Arts (DCFA) Season of the Arts events:
For additional queries, please call 663-2222 or
email
. Updates will be posted
on the Campus Events Calendar at
Eye Care for All
October 13
Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex
The Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of
Clinical Surgical Sciences commemoratesWorld
Sight Day 2016 with a Public Symposiumon Eye
Health under the theme Eye Care for All, taking
place at the EWMSC, Amphitheatre B.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please visit the Campus
Events Calendar at
/
ecalendar.
UWI-FDC Interactive Learning Event
October 29
UWI Family Development Centre
The University of The West Indies Family
Development Centre (UWI-FDC) kicks off the
Interactive Learning Series with the Partners in
Care: Building Bridges between Families and
Early Childhood Professionals event facilitated by
Lesleann Whiteman, Programme Manager, Early
Childhood Development and Family Studies at The
UWI Open Campus.The workshop takes place from
9am to 1pm with a registration cost of $250. The
deadline for registration is October 21. For more
details, please call 662-2002 ext. 84511/84517/84519
or email
.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at www.
sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar.
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
for Excellence
October 19
UWI St. Augustine
Seven awards for excellence will be presented at
The UWI’s 2015/2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
for Excellence Ceremony which is an University
tradition for more than 20 years, the 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. A departmental award is also
given for service and operational excellence. This
year, St. Augustine has secured four out of the seven
Excellence awards. The 2015/2016 awardees are Dr
Farid Youssef, Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences,
St Augustine Campus; Professor Jayaraj Jayaraman,
Department of Life Sciences, St Augustine Campus;
Professor Jennifer Knight-Madden, Caribbean
Institute for Health Research (formerly Tropical
Medicine Research Institute), Regional Headquarters;
Professor Verene Shepherd, Institute for Gender and
Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Unit;
Jessel Murray, Department of Creative and Festival
Arts, St Augustine Campus; Floyd Reifer, Head Coach
at the Academy of Sport, Cave Hill Campus; and The
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
St Augustine Campus.
To read more about the awardees, please click visit
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For more information, please visit the Campus
Events Calendar at
Graduation Ceremonies
October 20 to 22
The UWI, St. Augustine
Celebrate the graduating Class of 2016!
This
year’s Graduation Ceremonies are scheduled
to take place at The UWI Sport and Physical
Education Centre (SPEC)
• October 20:
(AM) Faculties of
Science & Technology and Food &
Agriculture; Honorary Graduand
Prof
K E Bingsheng
; (PM) Faculties of
Engineering and Law.
•
October 21:
(AM) Faculty of Social
Sciences (Surnames A to L) & ALL
ALJGSB graduands; (PM) Faculty
of Social Sciences (Surnames M to
Z); Honorary Graduand
Rev Daniel
Teelucksingh
.
•
October 22:
(AM) Faculty of Humanities
& Education; Honorary Graduand
Anthony Williams
; (PM) Faculty of
Medical Sciences.
For more information and updates,
please visit
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UWI SPEC International
Half-Marathon
October 23
Sport and Physical Education Centre
St. Augustine Campus
The 13th UWI SPEC International Half-
Marathon kicks off at 5.30am atThe UWI Sport
and Physical Education Centre (SPEC).
1,300 local, regional and international athletes
are invited to compete for prizes worth over
TT$150,000 in a range of categories.
For more details, please visit
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