Dr. Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Lecturer in Epidemiology in the Epidemiology Research Unit of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) has been invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Inter-Institute Endocrinology Grand Rounds in Bethesda, Maryland on Friday December 11, 2009. 

Dr. Tulloch-Reid’s presentation entitled “The Consequences of Obesity in Jamaican Youth” will focus on his research work in Jamaica. The presentation will include the findings of the first study to document the presence of type 2 diabetes in Caribbean Youth, sponsored by The University of the West Indies New Initiative Fund and the Caribbean Health Research Council, for which he was Principal Investigator.
 

Mrs. Jerome Miller-Vaz, head of the Western Region, Open Campus, at The University of the West Indies, and immediate past president of the Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association(CTLPA) has been recognized as a Diamond Honoree by the American College Personnel  Association (ACPA) Foundation for her exceptional contributions to education throughout her career.  Through its Diamond Honoree programme the Foundation annually recognizes a small group of educators who have made significant contributions of leadership and scholarship to their institutions, to ACPA and to students.  

Amid showers of blessing and colorful blue, red, white and orange backdrops on the elegant grounds of the Governor General’s mansion, Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald was inducted by the Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor the Hon. Sir George Alleyne, as the first Principal of the Open Campus on Friday, October 16, 2009. The ceremony opened with the traditional academic procession of UWI staff and faculty wearing the robes and colours of the University and then by the Chancellor’s procession led by the mace-bearer, who carried the University's ceremonial mace symbolizing the continuing authority of the governance of the institution.

The Department of Literatures in English at The UWI, Mona Campus presents the third lecture in the Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, beginning at 11.00 a.m.  The lecture will be delivered by Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Research Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, Professor Diana Brydon. Her lecture is entitled "Metaphors that disturb and inspire: the challenge of reading across cultures".