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The UWI Cave Hill Campus is celebrating its 60^th anniversary with a scheduled year-long calendar of events. Activities are carded to be held in Barbados and the Easter Caribbean which the campus was originally intended to serve.

In furtherance of its strategic agenda and vision as a global university rooted in the Caribbean, The University of the West Indies (The UWI), announces the appointment of its new Pro Vice-Chancellor (PVC) Global Affairs, Sandrea Maynard, LLB (Hons) LLM, SFHEA, PgCHE. PVC Maynard, whose appointment became effective on January 1, 2023, will lead the regional university’s global engagement portfolio and coordinate all internationalisation and strategic global initiatives across The UWI system.

The American Historical Association has voted to select Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles as its Honorary Foreign Scholar for 2023.

Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has announced that the University’s Five Islands Campus in Antigua and Barbuda is set for a “magnificent take-off”. He was speaking during a ceremony held at the Campus on January 17, during which Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, The Honourable Gaston Browne signed an agreement with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) to secure US$80 million to invest in the development of The UWI’s youngest landed campus.
 

The Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF) held the inaugural Caribbean STEM Olympiads on 20 – 22 January 2023 in a virtual format. In these Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Olympiads, individuals and teams representing educational institutions, clubs or themselves competed in several STEM events at three different age levels: Level 1 for students 12 – 15 years of age, Level 2 for students 16 – 18 years of age, and Level 3 for students 19 – 21 years of age. The events of the 2023 STEM Olympiads included: (a) Math Olympiads, (b) a Robotics Showcase and (c) Computer Coding Games. The Computer Coding Games consisted of Apps, and Websites aimed at solving one of six challenges faced by Caribbean communities (energy production and consumption, food security and food safety, non-communicable diseases, transportation, money movement, financial education, and geohazards and climate change).