The Seventh Conference of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences will be held on the UWI Mona Campus from May 17–19. The conference will feature research being undertaken by staff and graduate students in the Faculty at Mona, with researchers from The Cave Hill and St. Augustine Campuses of the UWI also expected to participate.

The Inaugural Rex Nettleford Prize in Cultural Studies has been awarded to Coordinator of the Graduate Colloquium in Cultural Studies and Administrative Officer in the Graduate Unit of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Dr. Sonjah Stanley-Niaah. The award is tenable at the UWI and will fund Dr. Stanley-Niaah’s research into the respective roots and comparisons between Jamaican Dancehall and South African Kwaito Music.

Records Manager at the UWI Mona Campus, Sonia Black, and University Archivist, Elizabeth Williams, were in the British Virgin Islands earlier this year to conduct a series of Records Management Workshops for members of that country’s civil service. One hundred and eighty-four senior managers, supervisors and clerical officers attended the workshops which were organized as part of the British Virgin Islands’ development of the country’s integrated records management programme. Deputy Governor, of the Islands, the Hon.

Members of the University community are requested to exercise care when using the Mona Bowl, especially at nights and outside the halls of residence. Students who have parked in that area have been held up, cellular phones, and other valuables stolen.
Campus Security has provided the following guideline:
 Do not occupy parked cars in the Mona Bowl longer than it takes to park and lock up the vehicle
 After dark, do not stroll, walk or loiter in the Mona Bowl, particularly near the open lot opposite the halls of residence.