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Date: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18
Date	Time	Type	Details	Venue
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00PM - 2:00PM	DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBIT	Writing for Stage and Screen Department of Literatures in English Title: Writing for Stage and Screen Overview: Staged readings of some of the best scripts from Amba Chevannes’ “Writing For the Stage & Screen” creative writing class.	Faculty Courtyard
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00PM - 3:00PM	LECTURE PRESENTATION	“Gender Equity in ICT” URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Title: “Gender Equity in ICT” Overview: The lecture will focus on the barriers to gender equality for women, youths, unattached males and persons with disabilities and the identification of strategies to increase opportunities and access to education, training, and employment in the ICT industry Presenter: Miss Ayanna Samuels, Independent ICT for Development Consultant/Entrepreneur and Technology Policy Consultant.	Multi-functional Room, UWI Main Library
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00 PM - 6:30 PM	SEMINAR	The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar - "Re-thinking Caribbean Futures: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" Overview: This seminar will feature a keynote presentation, art exhibition, and 3 panels exploring issues in regional development, research challenges, and the work of social scientists with people and communities. Guest Speaker: Dr Honor Ford-Smith, Assistant Professor, Community Arts Practice, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. Guest Speaker's Presentation: Haunting Acts and Future Possibilities: Performing Caribbean Radical Imagination in the Present ”	UWI Regional Headquarters
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00PM - 3:00PM	LECTURE PRESENTATION	The lecture will focus on the barriers to gender URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Title: “Gender Equity in ICT” Overview: The lecture will focus on the barriers to gender equality for women, youths, unattached males and persons with disabilities and the identification of strategies to increase opportunities and access to education, training, and employment in the ICT industry Presenter: Miss Ayanna Samuels, Independent ICT for Development Consultant/Entrepreneur and Technology Policy Consultant.	Multi-functional Room, UWI Main Library
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00PM - 2:00PM	BOOK LAUNCH	Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: 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	Rap Session with Deputy Deans for Graduate Studies 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 - 3:00 PM	LECTURE PRESENTATION	The Business of Personal Care Products 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	POETRY CLASH	Poetry Clash 2016 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	INTERACTIVE SESSION	Dance Exercise! 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 - 3:00PM	FACULTY TOURS	Laboratory 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

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