The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for the 2004/2005 academic year will go to five members of the academic staff based at the Mona and St Augustine campuses of The University of the West Indies. At Mona, the awardees are Professor Michael Branday of the Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, for Teaching; Professor Rainford Wilks, of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute for Research Accomplishments and Professor Edwin Jones of the Department of Government, Faculty of Social Sciences, for Public Service. The two awardees from the St Augustine Campus are Dr. Shirin Haque, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, for Teaching, and Professor Richard Dawe, Department of Chemical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, for All Round Performance.

The awardees were selected by the University Selection Committee for the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence which met at Mona on Wednesday, April 6. The finalists were chosen from an initial field of some twenty three nominations received for the award scheme.

The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence was instituted in 1994 as a way of recognizing excellence on the part of the academic and senior administrative staff. Awards are made in the categories of Teaching, Research Accomplishments, Service to the University Community, Public Service and All-Round Performance in a combination of two or more of the other four categories. Each awardee receives US$5000.
The award will be presented at a ceremony to be held at the Mona Campus during the week of the annual graduation ceremonies.