The University of the West Indies, Mona, Office of Student Services and Development will host the Annual Student Awards Ceremony. Dr. Hixwell Douglas, Education Officer, Special Education Unit, Ministry of Education will be the guest speaker on this occasion. The Ceremony will recognize students who have excelled in co-curricular activities, culture, service and leadership. In addition, students who have attained high academic standards will be highlighted. 

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The Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL, formerly the Instructional Development Unit) is celebrating 20 years of service to The UWI, Mona Campus.CETL invites educators to join them for various activities during the week of April 15-19, 2013, to celebrate their service to the Mona Campus, other stakeholders and partners. Activities include:
 
•    Best Practices in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education Exhibition
o    Dates:    Mon. April 15 to Thurs. April 18
o    Venue:    CETL’s Training Room (upstairs the Inter-Faculty Lecture Theatre)

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The Annual Awards Ceremony of the Faculty of Science and Technology recognizes Dean’s List Students, Scholarship recipients, Departmental Prize Awardees, and outstanding Academic staff 

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CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF ACTIVITIES, DATES, TIMES AND ROOM ASSIGNMENTS

This celebration seeks to positively reinforce the importance, usefulness and joys of learning a foreign language. Another objective,going forward, is to promote further studies in preparation for careers (in languages or otherwise) in the globalized setting of this new millennium.
 
The celebration encompasses all the languages taught at the UWI:
Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish.

 
FROM 11:00 A.M.  – 12:45 P.M., Activities will include:

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On World Autism Day, April 2, the University of the West Indies, Mona campus will illuminate the exterior of the main administrative building as a show of solidarity. For last year's observance, 3000 iconic buildings and landmarks in more than 600 cities in over 45 countries illuminated their buildings with a blue light.
Light it up Blue is is a campaign of the Autism Speaks organaization. Autism has been recognized as a global health crisis by the United Nations.
Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002494/)

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The Hyperbaric Treatment Facility at the University of the West Indies' Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory,  is the only such facility operating in the island for the diving community.  The facility treats decompression illness caused by excess nitrogen loading of tissues due to improper diving practices such as not enough in-water decompression or ascending too quickly while holding breath.  Over the last 36 years, approximately 350 cases were treated at DBML; of this total, 75% were commercial fishers.  In April 2012, a new IHC Hytech chamber was purchased to replace the 36-year-old Perry lock chamber.

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The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) celebrates its 20th anniversary under the theme "A Regional Legacy 1993 - 2013". As part of the year-long celebrations, the IGDS will host the Groundings project under the theme: Groundings with Brothers & Sisters - Reasoning the Way.
Groundings is the reclamation of a methodology of conscientizing developed by Guyanese historian, Walter Rodney in the 1960s to provide critical social intervention among a population of somewhat dispossessed but knowledge-hungry urban dwellers.

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The Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP) under the Jamaica Medical Students' Association (JAMSA) celebrates peace day UWI style. Students,staff and visiting public are being asked to help celebrate PEACE DAY by wearing blue to show solidarity in Jamaica’s initiative to end conflicts nationwide by ending conflicts in personal lives.
The theme for the day is, it isn’t enough to talk about peace; One must believe in it, after which don’t just believe it; YOU must work at it.Also to commemorate the day, SCORP will be selling blue ribbons. Look out for other activities, flyers and posters on the day. 

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March is Literatures in English Month. A number of activites will be staged to mark this period. They are:
 
March 3 -   Love Affair with Literature
March 14 - Launch of Curdella Forbes’Ghosts
March 15 - CSEC Interactive Discussion - Curdella Forbes: Songs of Silence
March 17 - Launch of Velma Pollard’s And Caret Bay Again: New & Selected Poems
March 22 - Film Premiere of Womanish Ways
March 24 - Launch of Ralph Thompson’s Taking Words for a Walk
 
The UWI Mona Calendar has details of time and venue for each event.

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