The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence Ceremony will take place on Thursday, November 3 at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre beginning at 6:00 p.m.
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.