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Date: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18
Date Time Type Details Venue
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 1:00PM - 2:00PM BOOK LAUNCH

Department of Government Department
Book Launch Book
Title: Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay.
Author: Dr. Clinton Hutton
Overview: This book examines the social, economic, spiritual and ideological bases of the Morant Bay Uprising.

 The Assembly Hall
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 1:30PM - 3:00PM RAP SESSION

OGSR Graduate Lounge
Activity: Rap Session with Deputy Deans for Graduate Studies – Faculties of Medical Sciences and Science and Technology
Overview: Graduate Students in the FMS and FST rap directly with their respective Deputy Deans.
Speakers: Professor Minerva Thame and Dr. Marcia Roye

 Lawn adjacent to the Office of Graduate Studies and Research
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM POETRY CLASH

URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Literatures in English
Title: Poetry Clash 2016
Overview: Competition featuring performance of original poetry by  visiting poets and the wider UWI Community with cash prizes. 

 Faculty Courtyard
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM POETRY CLASH

URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Literatures in English
Title: Poetry Clash 2016
Overview: Competition featuring performance of original poetry by  visiting poets and the wider UWI Community with cash prizes.

 Faculty Courtyard
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM - 3:00 PM LECTURE PRESENTATION

URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Chemistry
FST URD LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Business of Personal Care Products
Overview: The efforts to develop a profitable business venture in the personal care sector will be discussed.
Presenter: Ms Racquell Brown, CEO of Irie Rock Ltd

 The Undercroft Senate Building
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM - 3:00PM INTERACTIVE SESSION

School of Physical Therapy
Title: Dance Exercise!
Overview:  All will be moving with the Xbox Kinect filled with popular music. 
Meeting Point: Outside Lobby

 

 FMS Teaching & Research Complex Exhibition Room
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM - 3:00 PM LECTURE PRESENTATION

URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Chemistry FST URD LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Business of Personal Care Products
Overview: The efforts to develop a profitable business venture in the personal care sector will be discussed.
Presenter: Ms Racquell Brown, CEO of Irie Rock Ltd

 The Undercroft Senate Building
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM - 3:00PM INTERACTIVE SESSION

School of Physical Therapy
Title: Dance Exercise!
Overview: All will be moving with the Xbox Kinect filled with popular music.
Meeting Point: Outside Lobby

 FMS Teaching & Research Complex Exhibition Room
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM POETRY CLASH

URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Literatures in English
Title: Poetry Clash 2016 Overview: Competition featuring performance of original
poetry by visiting poets and the wider UWI Community with cash prizes.

 Faculty Courtyard
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:00PM - 3:00PM FACULTY TOURS

Department of Chemistry
Laboratory Tours
Overview: Potential clients/ investors will be given an opportunity to visit the labs which are capable of contract research / commercial testing.

 Pesticide Research Lab, NMR & Central Analytical Lab
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 2:30PM - 3:30PM LECTURE PRESENTATION

Department of Life Sciences 
FST URD LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Ecology and Pathology of Free Living Amoebae
Overview: This talk will concentrate on one particularly abundant Free Living Amoeba (FLA) genus, ACANTHAMOEBA, which is important for human health and from which we have harnessed its unique bacteria recognition, to obtain new treatments against the pathogenic STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS.
Presenter: Dr Sutherland Maciver, Reader in Biomedical Sciences Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
Introductions: Prof John Lindo, Head of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences 

 Science Lecture Theatre
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 3:00PM STUDENTS' RESEARCH TOUR

dBURNZ Research Days Celebrity Tent Tour!
Overview: Join entertainer dBURNZ on a radical tour of the Exhibition Tent. Experience the mix of music and musings. Be a part of the conversation, win prizes, have fun!

 Starting Point: Undercroft, Senate Building

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