IN JAMAICA: UWI Research Days focus on economic growth projects

Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer, UWI,
 Mona Campus Co-ordinator for Graduate Studies
 and Research addressing yesterday’s
Observer Monday Exchange.
(PHOTO: KENYON HEMANS)

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

Tuesday, February 18, 2014  THE University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona will be using the three-day platform of Research Days 2014 to signal what it says is a shift in the focus of the annual event to now target projects which will impact Jamaica’s economic growth.

 The 14-year-old event, which has moved from being a single day to a three-day affair, will run from February 19 to 21 and showcase the university’s research work across disciplines, under the theme ‘Fostering Growth and Development in Small Island Developing States Through Research’.

 Speaking at the weekly Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange yesterday, UWI Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Archibald McDonald said even as the university continues to build on the strong foundation left by his predecessor Professor Gordon Shirley, there are significant changes taking place with one very significant shift being in the area of research. more