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UWI Mona advances plans for e books access with incoming MBA students
Posted: May 13, 2013
(l-r) Lloyd Laing- Vice President of Technical Operations at JL Mobile,Dr. Lila Rao Graham- Director of the MBA Programme at the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM), Camille Brady-Account Executive at Pearson Publishing, Jovan Alston- Vice President of Finance and Operations at JL Mobile, and Dr. Ronald Robinson-UWI Special Projects Consultant, explore the dynamic features of the SmartTab 9 IPS at the orientation session for the MBA programme at Mona School of Business and Management on Wednesday April 4. MSBM is the first business school in Jamaica to use the SmartTab as part of its programme offering.
Agriculture Minister gets insight on UWI’s initiative to help Fisheries
Posted: May 08, 2013
The University of the West Indies' Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory & Field Station (UWI-DBML) recently hosted the Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries, the Honourable Roger Clarke who observed UWI's ongoing work to protect local fish stocks and coral reefs.
Minister Clarke was introduced to the ongoing lionfish research being conducted by UWI through the 'Mitigating the Threats of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular Caribbean (MTIASIC)' project which is sponsored by Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Programme and administered by CAB International through the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA).
Some activities being conducted under the Lionfish project include:
Locally Grown Produce gets International Spotlight
Posted: April 26, 2013
Babies from around the world could one day soon be raised on the best of Jamaican foods, courtesy of a team from The University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI). The team comprised of MBA students of the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) presented their business plan highlighting the value of brand Jamaica with their pitch for Giggles: baby food made from high nutrition Jamaican produce; for which they won the first place award in the recently held Opportunity Funding Corporation Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OFCIE) competition.
UWI Mona students top Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence
Posted: April 19, 2013
Some 17 students and graduates of The University of the West Indies, (UWI) Mona Campus were recognized at a ceremony held recently to present the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence to young achievers between the ages of 15 and 24 years .
The Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards salutes young persons who have distinguished themselves in various sectors including journalism, entrepreneurship, agriculture, leadership, community service, academics, art and culture, sports and international achievement. Members of the public are asked to nominate young persons in their community for the prestigious awards.
UWI Mona to host 28th UWI Inter campus Games
Posted: April 18, 2013
The University of the West Indies, (UWI) Mona will host the 28th staging of the biennial UWI, Intercampus Games - The UWI Games. The campus will see more than 500 students from the four campuses of the regional University: Mona (Jamaica), St. Augustine (Trinidad) Cave Hill (Barbados) and the Open Campus at the region’s largest multi-sporting event.
Michael ‘Freestyle’ Thompson for UWI Mona's Reggae Talks
Posted: April 17, 2013
Michael ‘Freestylee’ Thompson, co-founder of the International Reggae Poster Contest, will speak about his work as a politically engaged graphic artist on Thursday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Neville Hall lecture theatre (N1) at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Thompson, a Jamaican who now resides in the U.S., is a distinguished graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
UWI Mona Students Win Software Application Competition
Posted: April 17, 2013
Could five University of the West Indies (UWI) undergraduate students, from the Department of Computing have come up with a real solution to a major challenge facing the island’s agricultural sector?
Judges of the Jamaican code sprint entries at the Caribbean Open Data Conference certainly believe so.
Bruce Hoo Fung, Jonathan Smith, Kimberley Roper and brothers Mumba and Kangwa Sambo are Team K2MJB -- the creative minds and developers behind ‘Farma Bredren’, a mobile phone application that will improve how the Rural Agriculture Development Authority (RADA) collects information on crops from farmers across the island. The quintuplet is students in the Department of Computing at the UWI.
Sir Hilary calls on the Caribbean to litigate the case of Britain’s Black Debt
Posted: April 17, 2013
UWI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, Jamaica – Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. It is a fractured, contentious and divisive call, but it generates considerable public interest.
UWI Recognises Graduate Researchers
Posted: April 12, 2013
2013 Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Minister’s Innovator of the Year Award (2012) for the category Resource/Knowledge Valorization, Vincent Taylor, as well as winner of the Innovation Award for the Category Health and Wellness (2012) Denise Daley-Beckford, were presented with the inaugural Graduate Researchers’ Awards Trophy for Academic and Research Excellence at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus’ annual Scholars’ Breakfast held Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre.
New University Counsel appointed
Posted: April 11, 2013
The University of the West Indies is pleased to announce the appointment, with effect from March 1, 2013, of Mrs Laleta Davis-Mattis as University Counsel and Head of the Legal Unit, succeeding Dr Beverley Pereira, who has retired.
A Jamaican, Mrs Davis-Mattis first joined the academic staff at the UWI Mona Campus as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2002 in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences and more recently, the Faculty of Law.