UWI St Augustine cops 4 excellence awards

The awardees of the St Augustine campus were Dr Farid Youssef, Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences for Excellence Award for Teaching; Professor Jayaraj Jayaraman, Department of Life Sciences, Excellence Award for Research Accomplishments; Jessel Murray, Department of Creative and Festival Arts, All-round Excellence in University Service and Public Service, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for the Departmental Award for Excellence.

The other awardees were Professor Jennifer Knight-Madden, Caribbean Institute for Health Research (formerly Tropical Medicine Research Institute), Regional Headquarters, Excellence Award for Research Accomplishments; Floyd Reifer, The Academy of Sport, Cave Hill Campus, Excellence Award for Outstanding Service to the University Community; Professor Verene Shepherd, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Unit, Excellence Award for Contribution to Public Service.

The awards were presented to the recipients at the St Augustine Campus last Wednesday. Professor Brian Copeland, who had his first duty as host of the awards ceremony, congratulated the seven recipients, and said he was “extremely proud” of the four awardees from The St Augustine Campus calling them the “Fantastic Four.” St Augustine Campus copped four of the seven awards. In his address, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles said that although the university was short of cash, it was rich in intellect and it has a responsibility to sustain excellence in the Caribbean.

Calling for a concerted effort to sustain excellence in the region, he said, the university has to ensure that excellence was sustained and the awardees have the role to be the carriers and the sustainers of excellence in the university community and the region.