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A major highlight for the year was the selection of Leneka Rhoden, a graduate student in Life Sciences, to represent Jamaica at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) from November 8–18, 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where she served as a panellist and lead session facilitator at the Interna- tional Universities Climate Alliance. Several members of the Life Sciences family were recognized for their contributions to the wider scientific community. Among them were Professor Mona Webber who was awarded the ‘Order of Distinction in the Rank of Commander,’ Dr Eric Garraway was a recipient of a Silver Musgrave Medal for his contribution to science and Professor Noureddine Benkeblia who was recognised by Wiley publishers for producing the top cited paper among work published in an issue of the Journal of Food Safety .
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STUDENTS An ongoing review of our academic programmes and majors continued with a focus on increasing the flexibility of these programmes to reduce the difficulty associated with students accessing elective courses associated with these programmes. With the full engagement of students in laboratory and field activities, several challenges arose as many of our students in the advanced levels were being exposed to this level of practical involvement for the first time in their University involvement. However, our technical and administrative teams developed and implemented plans tailored for different courses and activities to ensure that the students were able to adapt to the increase level of involvement in a manner that enhanced their student experience. The Department’s effort to engage potential students contin- ued through our participation in the Faculty’s CAPE workshop programme and by opening our facilities for tours by small groups of students from different high schools across the country. Through these efforts we were able to interact with in excess of 600 students from approximately 30 high schools across the island. Noel Ellis, Le’Anne Ledgister, Nicholas Lee and Sashell Nelson, were re-inducted into the Life Sciences Honours Society based on their continued excellent academic performance during the academic year, while eight students were newly inducted. The new inductees were Melecia Gordon, Dominique Bryan, Sasha Wilson, Melissa Brown, Krystal Thompson, Lael Charles, Jameili Thomas, and Xaundrea Bryant. Seven students were awarded prizes at the Faculty of Science and Technology Annual Awards Ceremony for outstanding performance in specific subject areas. They were Rohan Lorne who received the Preliminary Biology Don Skelding Prize, Jason Grant who received the 1st year Biology Charlotte Goodbody Prize, Stephannie
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