The Ezra Mugisa Award was introduced in the 2020/2021 academic year by the Department of Computing in honour of Dr. Ezra Mugisa. This Award is in recognition of Dr. Mugisa’s outstanding contribution to the Department as well as to serve as a motivation to the students of Computer Science.

Dr. Mugisa joined The UWI, Mona Campus in 1982 as a Data Controller in the then Sub-Department of Computer Science and subsequently obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Imperial College, University of London.  He taught numerous courses at both the B.Sc. and M.Sc levels and served a number of terms as Head of the Computer Science Section and later as Head of the Department of Computing. He distinguished himself as an invaluable member of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and later the Department of Computing. Dr. Mugisa retired from the University in 2018.

The Ezra Mugisa Award will be presented to a second-year student with the best academic performance in Computing courses at second year.  The recipient of this Award is the student with the highest average in first year, and Semester I of the second year Computing courses. The prize will come with a cash award.