The UWI, Cave Hill Campus CHILL- 60th Anniversary Edition

AWARDS

Eight Receive Top Honours for EXCELLENCE T hree Cave Hill

employees whose efforts played a significant role in the campus’s fight against COVID-19 earned stellar recognition when the campus honoured eight staffers for outstanding performance at last year’s Annual Retirees and Long Service Awards Ceremony. The eight recipients of the 2022 Principal’s Award for Excellence also included a political scientist, a clinical psychologist, an agri- food researcher, a project officer and a laboratory technologist.

Mrs. Nicole Sue Principal’s Award for Excellence in Recognition of Outstanding Service to the Campus Community

Dr. Tania Whitby-Best Principal’s Award for Excellence in Recognition of Outstanding Service to the Campus Community

Dr. Tania Whitby-Best and Mrs. Nicole Sue were jointly awarded for Outstanding Service to the Campus Community in recognition of their sterling work, including efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 within the campus community. Medical Officer and Head of Department, Student Health Services Dr. Whitby-Best oversaw the emergence of three major innovative activities: the introduction of telemedicine and other virtual forms of medical assistance to students; the organisation of vaccination drives on campus for both staff and students; and the implementation of the monitoring system for students

travelling and returning to campus. During the pandemic, Mrs. Sue , Health, Safety and Environmental Officer, learned the new critical skill of contact tracing, working for extended hours supporting the national effort, and ensuring that the campus remained safe. She also helped to devise, implement and monitor campus protocols in response to wider governmental COVID-19 directives, and liaise with key stakeholders to ensure that critical protocols and procedures were in place to keep the campus community safe. Mrs. Sue’s engagement on campus has been a pioneering and wide-ranging one driven by

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