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Among the decisions taken at the sitting of the annual meeting of University Council last month was the assignment of additional duties to Pro Vice-Chancellors and Campus Principals. This, in keeping with the University’s current COVID-19 cost-cutting and cost-containment strategies.

Consistent with the Council’s approval to restructure its senior leadership portfolios, Dr Luz Longsworth, with effect from July 1, 2020, will assume responsibility for the oversight of the University’s global affairs in addition to her role as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Open Campus. 

UWI Graduate Earl Jarrett was elected from among the four selected commissioners of the ECJ in keeping with the Electoral Commission (Interim) Act 2006 which states that “the selected commissioners shall elect one of their number to be chairman of the commission and so inform the governor general”. The ECJ comprises nine members — the director of elections, four selected commissioners, and four nominated commissioners, two nominated on the advice of the prime minister and two on the advice of the leader of the Opposition.

Dr Sharmayne Saunders has been appointed as Head of Site, Open Campus Belize.

She has built a 25-year career in business, consultancy and academia. Following several leadership roles in the private sector, Dr Saunders joined The UWI Open Campus in 2008 as Programme Officer and was also a Course Facilitator/Lecturer for undergraduate, postgraduate and continued professional education courses. She continues to provide postgraduate research teaching and supervision to many students

The UWI St Augustine has appointed the first female Professor of Science, Professor Judith Gobin. She is also Head of the Department of Life Sciences, the largest Department in the Faculty of Science and Technology. Not only is she an academic but she has contributed significantly at the national, regional and global level to promote and apply scientific knowledge to solve real-world problems.”

Dr. Jennifer Young has been appointed to the highly valued and pivotal position of Neonatal‐ Perinatal Fellowship Program Director in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Toronto.

UWI alumna, Professor Geneive Henry who is the Chair of Susquehanna University’s Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Outstanding Mentorship Award from the Chemistry Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). She is the Charles B. Degenstein Professor of Chemistry at Susquehanna. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in chemistry with first-class honours and her Doctorate in organic chemistry from The UWI.

Caribbean tourism and COVID-19 - Coping with the stress of working from home during the crisis. Dr. Katija Khan, a clinical psychologist at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine, and a member of the UWI COVID-19 task force, shares some extremely helpful recommendations on hope to cope. Listen by clicking on: https://bit.ly/34MKiPN. It’s also on Facebook at https://bit.ly/3ex8QRx.

As this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt says “- Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art” – and we consider our “more mature” graduates to be works of art who have contributed professionally nationally, regionally and internationally at all levels: and who have helped build and sculpt our beautiful Caribbean.

15 year old Francoise Hall, a student at the Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, in Montreal Canada had been studying abroad in Sevilla, Spain since January 9th 2020.