DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Dr. Nagarani Ponakala, M.Sc, M.Phil & Ph.D (India) – Head of Department
OVERVIEW For the 2022/23 academic year, the department returned to face-to-face classes for all the undergraduate courses, and graduate courses were offered in blended mode with 75% of its teaching remaining online. The department started the academic year with 12 full-time academic staff, 4 Administrative staff, and 3 support staff by joining Mr. Horace Johnson as a full-time lecturer in the field of Actuarial Science while replacing Ms. Britta Hay, whose contract ended in July 2022. Department took the support from several Adjunct staff and is thankful for their commitment and contributions. During this year, the department suffered the great loss of an esteemed colleague Mr. Winston St. Elmo Whyte, who passed away on March 3, 2023. During his tenure with us, Mr. Whyte served as a Director of the Actuarial Science programme at the level of Senior Lecturer in the Department for more than 15 years. Though the year started slowly with uncertainty because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the strong commitment and hard work of all the members of staff ensured the department that the quality and standards were maintained at their highest and ended the academic year productively by successfully achieving most of our strategic objectives, though facing some serious constraints in terms of the resources available for the Department and also while missing our esteemed colleague. During this year, Dr. Victor Job, received a CETL Faculty Award for achieving 4.5 and above in the 2021–2022 UWI Student Evaluation of Teaching and Dr. Tamika Royal-Thomas received two Principal awards for the Best Research Publications for the years 2019–2020 and 2021–2022. DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH The department conducts various in-reach and outreach activities for the support and growth of our students and staff and also to service the wider public. We initi-
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