The Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health (OESH) Programme in the Department of Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, Mona offers a 30-hour Certificate Programme in the Essentials of Occupational Safety and Health starting from September 9.


The course covers the basics of Occupational Health and Safety and addresses the following topics: OSH Legislation, Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control, Conducting Workplace Inspections, Accident Investigation and Communication, Resolving OESH Workplace Issues. Registration closes on August 31, 2009. Registration forms are available at http://tinyurl.com/m5wmlr and more details may be obtained at http://tinyurl.com/kppzpw.

The UWI School of Nursing, Mona (UWISON) in collaboration with New York University College of Nursing and University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is in the third year of the Randomized Controlled Behavioural Intervention entitled “Mother Daughter HIV Risk Reduction Project funded by the National Institutes of Health, USA.

The behavioural intervention is culturally & developmentally appropriate, gender specific, theory-driven and involves skill-building; it aims to reduce adolescents’ girls sexual risk behaviours and increase mothers’ sexual risk communication and their parental monitoring and supervision.

The Department of Computing will host a series of workshops on Computer Animation which will run from August 10-14 (Monday – Friday) from 10.00 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. in the Computing Department Lab (3rd floor, Life Sciences Building).  The cost is $5000.  A maximum of 14 persons will be accepted. 

In this short course, persons will learn Basic computer animation, how to develop structured animation story outlines and storyboards, how to implement a story as an animation and program and how to make the animation interact with the viewer.

The emphasis will be on developing positive Jamaican/Caribbean content and positive, non-violent content in general.

The University of the West Indies Geology Museum (UWIGM) will be running a Science Camp for children aged 8-12 from Monday August 10 through Friday August 21.   There will be daily activities from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. covering topics such as Volcanoes & Earthquakes, Rock identification and building rock collections, Fossil identification and experiments, Mapping techniques using hand held G.P.S. Units, The geology of the Mona Campus and Weather & Climate Change.

The daily camp will expose students to the fundamentals of the earth and environmental sciences using field trips, museum excursions, hands-on lab experiments, computer packages and exercises using the World Wide Web.

There will be an Ethics Mini symposium and Public Lecture on Friday August 14th. The Mini symposium will be held from 2.00 p.m. to 400 p.m. in the Interfaculty Lecture Theatre and the Public Lecture from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. at the Undercroft.  The theme for the Mini Symposium and Public Lecture is "Beyond the boundaries: Developing a University Ethics Centre"

The Public Lecture will be given by Professor the Hon Owen Morgan (Retired and Former Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences) and the topic is "Ethics and the Academy: Universities' duties in an open society"

The Department of Library and Information Studies will be hosting a public lecture entitled “A we dis? “Cultural Representation of the Caribbean in Children’s Book by Dr. Cherrell Shelley-Robinson on Thursday September, 10 2009 at 5.30 p.m. at the Neville Hall lecture Theatre (N1), UWI Mona Campus.

The Class of 2012 presents Smoker 2009 “Knot the truth: the truth is rarely pure and never simple” from September 17-20, 2009. Smoker is an annual charity event put on by third year medical students of the University of the West Indies Mona and is considered to be one of the oldest cultural traditions at the University. It generally takes the form of a theatrical performance showcasing the talent of the M.B.B.S. students and includes drama, song and dance. This year, our Smoker production features a young man who grew up without his knowing father and decides to go on a "father-seeking" path which only leads to more questions than answers.  A total of six (6) shows exhibiting two brilliant casts will be held at The Philip Sherlock Centre for The Creative Arts.

Please be advised that copies of the Academic Diary – 2009/2010 can be viewed on the UWI Office of Administration website at www.uwi.edu.

Hard copies will be available as of August 11, 2009.

Youth leaders from Jamaica and the Diaspora will converge on the UWI, Mona Campus from August 4-10, 2009 for the Future Leadership Jamaican Diaspora Conference to be held at the Mona Visitors Lodge and Conference Centre.

The 8th annual William Dennis Memorial Lecture takes place on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5 pm at the Main Medical Lecture Theatre located at the University Hospital of the West Indies.  For this year two lectures will be delivered by UWI, Mona academics: Professor Terrance Forrester, Head, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies and Dr. Tomlin Paul, Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Medical Sciences and Senior Lecturer, Community Health and Psychiatry.

Professor Forrester’s lecture is titled, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease: How Far back for the Answer? His lecture will explore the links between metabolism, body composition, insulin resistance and hypertension.