The University of the West Indies’ 75th anniversary launch campaign has earned ‘gold’ at the AVA Digital Awards. This international competition recognises outstanding work by creative professionals in digital communication.

AVA Digital Awards bestowed The UWI’s “Rooted Ready Rising” campaign with the honour at the 17th annual edition of the awards in the ‘Social Campaign, Digital Marketing’ category for special anniversary event communication products.

During the Western campaign to illegalise the trans-Atlantic Trade of Africans in the 19th century, traders and their allies argued that African commercial and political interests were their business partners. According to Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, “Since then, this perspective has gained global traction, becoming the dominant narrative, particularly in the Caribbean and the Americas.

The State University of New York (SUNY) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) will hold the first post COVID-19 SUNY-UWI Health Research Consortium Face-to-Face Meeting on March 9-10, 2023, at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies.  The objective of the meeting is to provide a forum for faculty members within the UWI and SUNY university systems, and other university partners, to advance research, which is in keeping with the UWI’s mission, “To advance learning, create knowledge and foster innovation for the positive transformation of the Caribbean and the wi

The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Jamaica donated JMD$5.4 million to the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at The University of the West Indies, (The UWI) Mona Campus, to support the Huawei ICT Lab – a part of the larger Huawei  ICT Talent Hub in Jamaica.