Campus HIGHLIGHTS
Film Unit staff member and alumnus, Mr Shea Best , won Best Director for his film Vulnerable at the New Wave Short Film Festival 2021, an international film festival based in Munich, Germany. The short film, shot and produced in Trinidad & Tobago, also won Best Psychological Drama Short in the Hollywood in the Tiber Film Festival in Rome. UWI Arts Steel performed to sold out audiences at the 51st Festival of Culture of Fort-de-France, Martinique in July 2022. Their participation in the Festival included a commissioned concert of classical works, calypso/soca, and French music in July 2022. Mr Jessel Murray was Co-Music Director/Conductor. Law Thirty-four pioneering Caribbean women jurists were honoured by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in March 2022. Among them were the Chair of the St. Augustine Campus Council, Ms Sharon Christopher , and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine. Medical Sciences Professor Christine Carrington was named the 2022 Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Excellence Laureate for Science and Technology. The ANSA McAL Foundation hailed Professor Carrington as perhaps the foremost regional authority on virus evolution and molecular epidemiology, respected in the scientific community regionally and globally, with an impressive record of publication and international collaboration. Dr Arlene Williams-Persad, Lecturer in Pharmacology, received the 2022 award of Distinguished Woman in Immunology from the Latin American & Caribbean Congress for her work on the treatment and management strategies of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD).
Other Achievements Engineering
Professor Michelle Mycoo was appointed as Deputy Executive Director of The UWI Global Institute for Climate Smart and Resilient Development. The University of the West Indies Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Student Chapter won the 2021 Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter. Students’participation in the SPE PetroBowl competition, paper contest and Imperial Barrel Award. This is the second time that the UWI SPE has won this award. Humanities & Education Mr Andreas Antonopoulos won the best new media award at the 2021 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival with his experimental documentary, Rhythms of Trinidad . The film was made entirely from archival material in collaboration with the National Archives of Trinidad & Tobago (NATT). It explored the idea that rhythm and movement can act as communication tools between filmmakers and audiences and was featured in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Dr Oscar Bazán won the literary contest called by the journal Windumanoth , regarded as the best science fiction and fantasy journal in Europe. Professor Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw ’ s biography of Aimé Césaire (UWI Press) was named a finalist in the Regional (Non- Fiction) category for the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
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