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Staff Appreciation Recognition of staff members proceeded throughout the year. Technical and service staff enjoyed refreshments and tokens of appreciation at the Department’s annual Technical and Service Staff Appreciation Day in November, while, Administrative Professionals were recognised in April and Lecturers were treated to small tokens of appreciation in celebration of Teachers’ Day (May) 2023. Special thanks were extended to 3 retirees, who were presented with tokens of appreciation for their years of service, at the Department’s end-of-year luncheon held in December. DEPARTMENT SEMINARS Twenty engaging and informative seminars covering a wide range of topics, were delivered by visitors, faculty and postgraduates. Seminars delivered by visitors to the Department included: • Dr Henroy Scarlett, DAAS President, International Federeation of Environ- mental Health (IFEH), and Lecturer, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Community Health & Psychiatry, The UWI, “Climate Change and Public Health”. • Ms Senami Anko, Graduate Assistant, Lagos State University, Nigeria, “Impact Assessment of Badagry Creek on Groundwater Quality in Ojo Community, Ojo, Lagos State”. • Dr Czerne Reid, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, College of Med- icine, University of Florida, “Science to Science Communication: A Journey of Discovery”. • Dr Eduardo Caro, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico – Medical Sciences Campus, “Marine Natural and Pseudo-natural Products for Drug Discovery”. • Mr Akenio Patterson, MPhil Student, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Depart- ment of Chemistry, The UWI, “The Potential of Arachis hypogaea Testa as a Functional Food Ingredient for the Treatment of Depression”. • Dr Adam Simpson, IDEAL Provostial Fellow, Stanford University, USA, “Pre- dicting Initial Transformation of Food-Based Bio-Polymers and Molecules During Food Disinfection: new insights and updates in this emerging field”. • Prof Isaac F. Céspedes Camacho, Escuela de Química, Tecnológico de Costa Rica, “Solid-state NMR: basics and applications of hyperpolarization methods” • Dr Richard Denton, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York (CUNY), “Implicit biases in STEM Education”
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