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Graduation Video Tapes and Photographs
UWI Graduates, who are interested in video tapes of the 2003 Graduation Ceremonies, may contact the Public Relations Office at 977-5941/935-8348/935-8692. The cost is $1200 per copy of the tape for the particular day you graduated. We also would like to remind graduates who took graduation photographs over the past fifteen (15) years, that they may be collected between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Mondays to Fridays from the Public Relations Office, Gibraltar Hall Road, Mona Campus.
Grenada: A History of its People
The book Grenada: A History of its People has been written by Beverley A Steele, a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies. The book blends up-to-date scholarship from primary sources with fascinating detail of Grenada’s people and their often turbulent struggle for survival. It provides a detailed chronological, historical analysis but focuses especially on the story and every day lives of its inhabitants from the earliest days of settlement by the Kalinago people to the overthrow and execution of the revolutionary Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop in 1983, and beyond.
Inaugural Stallion Alumni Dinner
Block A, Stallion Republic, Taylor Hall cordially invites all past Stallions to its Inaugural Stallion Alumni Dinner on Sunday March 28, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. on the lawns of Block A. Guest Speaker will be Mr. Wayne Robinson. Contribution is $1500 single; $2500 couple. Proceeds are in aid of the National Children’s Home and Block Development. For Further Information call Dashan Hendricks at 391-8757, Conrod Harvey at 391- 8821 or Everton Thomas at 413 – 2301.
Jamaica Flour Mills Foundation Scholarships
Applications are invited for Scholarships to be offered by the Jamaica Flour Mills Foundation to pursue full-time courses of study at the University of the West Indies (UWI), University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), and Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Persons applying for assistance to pursue undergraduate studies should have a least three (3) A’ Level subjects with at least “B” average, or three 2-unit CAPE courses at grades 1 or 11. Students enrolled in diploma or degree programmes should have an average of at least grade B in their examinations.
Law Society Week
Students of the Faculty of Law will be celebrating their annual Law Society Week from March 21-26. On March 25, there will be a forum titled “The Terrorism Prevention Bill – Is it a Protection or an Infringement” at the UWI Undercroft at 5:00 p.m. The speakers for the event will be Ms. Gladys Young from the Ministry of Justice, Dr. Martin Aub, Farquharson Institute of Public Affairs and Mrs. Yvonne McCalla-Sobers, Families Against State Terrorism (FAST). All are invited to attend.
Share Your Vision
The Office for Special Students' Services (O.S.S.S.) is asking for volunteers to read for visually impaired. students. Students of any age or from any Faculty may volunteer to assist the blind students. Interested persons may visit the O.S.S.S., located across from the Main Library and beside Pages Café, or call ext. 2549 or 2654. Please note that this is considered a co-curricular activity.
10th Annual ISAPS Conference
The International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), and the Society for African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA) invite proposals for the 10th annual ISAPS conference to be held April 2-4 at the UWI Mona Campus. Specific issues to be explored include: epistemology of the market place; metaphysics of globalisation; ethical and religious dimensions of globalisation; political philosophy of globalisation; and the aesthetics of globalisation. The organisors also welcome papers on other topics of interest.
Change Management Symposium
The Research and Policy Group of the Mona School of Business (MSB) will host a Change Management Symposium” on Wednesday, March 17. This will be held in the Executive Lecture Theatre at the Mona School of Business, Alister McIntyre Building from 4:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Climate Studies Seminar
The Climate Studies Group, Mona (CSGM) of the Department of Physics will be hosting a special seminar by Dr. David Enfield, a renowned climate scientist and oceanographer. The seminar will be held next Wednesday, March 17 at 11:00 a.m. in the seminar room of the Physics Department. The topic will be: “The Western Hemisphere Warm Pool: Its Thermodynamics and Implications for Caribbean Climate”. Dr. Enfield is a senior research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Florida, USA.
Codman Neurosurgery Week
The Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Faculty of Medical Sciences will again observe Codman Neurosurgery Week from March 15 to 19. Two distinguished UWI Alumni and Professors of Neurosurgery, Professors Paul Steinbok of Vancouver, Canada and Renn Holness of Nova Scotia, Canada, will deliver lectures and perform surgery during the week.