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University of the West Indies
Motto
Oriens Ex Occidente Lux (Latin)
Motto in English
A Light Rising From The West
Type
Regional university Public, Autonomous
Established
1948
Chancellor
Mr. Robert Bermudez
Vice-Chancellor
Sir Hilary Beckles
Academic staff
1,200+
Students
36,000+ (across 4 campuses)
Campus
Mona, Jamaica
Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Cave Hill, Barbados
Debe, Trinidad and Tobago(under construction)
Affiliations
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
Mascot
The Pelican
Website
www.uwi.edu
St Augustine UWI Campus
The University of the West Indies (UWI) is a public university system serving 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean:
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Montserrat
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Each of these countries is either a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or a British Overseas Territory. The aim of the university is to help "unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth" in the West Indies, thus allowing for improved regional autonomy.[1] The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London.[2]
Since the University's inception, students and faculty have been recognized in fields ranging from the arts and sciences, to business, politics, and sports. Notable alumni and faculty include three U.W.I.(Mona) Nobel Laureates, sixty-one Rhodes Scholars, 18 current or former Caribbean Heads of Government, and an Olympic medalist. The university's cricket team previously participated in West Indian domestic cricket, but now participates as part of a Combined Campuses and Colleges team.
This university consists of three physical campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados and the Open Campus. There are satellite campuses in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and Montego Bay, Jamaica, and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. The other contributing countries are served by the Open Campus[3] which has a physical presence and Heads of Sites in each of the 18 countries. There are International Programmes for universities in the USA, Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico such as University of Toronto, McGill University,Osaka Gakuin University, China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai University, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Emory University, University of Massachusetts, the University of Guelph, Yale University, King's College London, St Andrews University, Northeastern University, Stockholm University, University of California, Sophia University, University of Illinois and Universidad de Quintana Roo.
Contents
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1 History
2 Notable faculty and administrators
3 Notable alumni
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
6.1 Campus websites
6.2 Other links
History[edit]
Book shelves UWI Library
The university was founded in 1948, on the recommendation of the Asquith Commission[4] through its sub-committee on the West Indies chaired by Sir James Irvine.[5] The Asquith Commission had been established in 1943 to review the provision of higher education in the British colonies. Initially in a special relationship with the University of London, the then University College of the West Indies (UCWI) was seated at Mona, about five miles from Kingston, Jamaica. The university was based at a camp used by evacuated Gibraltarians during the war.[6]
The University College achieved independent university status in 1962. The St Augustine Campus in Trinidad, formerly the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA), was established in 1960, followed by the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados in 1963. Before the establishment of the Open Campus, University Centres, headed by a Resident Tutor, were established in each of the other thirteen contributing territories.
Each of the physical campuses has faculties common to all of the campuses, such as Humanities & Education and Social Sciences. Cave Hill and Mona have the Faculty of Science & Technology while St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, houses the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Agriculture under the Faculty of Agriculture and Sciences. Cave Hill, Barbados and Mona, Jamaica and St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago has a full Faculty of Law. Both Mona, Jamaica, and St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, have the Faculty of Medicine. In 2008 Cave Hill accepted the first students at their Faculty of Medicine. Previously, they only accommodated students in the final two years in the medical program at their School of Medicine which was located at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. St. Augustine also has the Faculty of Engineering.
In 1950, HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria, became the first Chancellor of the University College of the West Indies.
Sir William Arthur Lewis was the first Vice-Chancellor under the UWI’s independent Charter. A native of St Lucia, he served as the first West Indian Principal of the UCWI from 1958 to 1960 and as Vice-Chancellor from 1960 to 1963. He was succeeded by Sir Philip Sherlock (a Jamaican and one of the UWI’s founding fathers) who served as Vice-Chancellor from 1963 to 1969. Sir Roy Marshall, a Barbadian, was the next Vice-Chancellor, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was succeeded by Dr Aston Zachariah Preston, a Jamaican, who died in office on June 24, 1986 having served from 1974. The fifth Vice-Chancellor was Sir Alister McIntyre, who served from 1988 to 1998, followed by alumnus and Professor Emeritus Rex Nettleford who served from 1998 to 2004. The current Vice-Chancellor is Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who succeeded Professor E. Nigel Harris in May 2015.
Current enrollment across the four campuses is 56,000.
Notable faculty and administrators[edit]
Hilary Beckles: historian, vice-chancellor from May 2015.
Dr. Daniel Coore: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at UWI Mona Campus[7]
Dr. Elsa Goveia first female professor of UCWI and noted pioneer in West Indian historiography[8][9]
Dr. Patrick Hosein: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at UWI St Augustine Campus[10]
William Arthur Lewis: Economist, lecturer, author and joint winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics of 1979.
Albert Belville Lockhart: Consultant and Ophthalmologist, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol[11]
Sam Mc Daniel:- B.Sc.UWI Mona Jamaica, M.A. (Biostatistics), Harvard University, Ph.D, Harvard University[12]
Manley Elisha West: Professor of Pharmacology, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol[11]
Dr. Kim Mallalieu: Senior Lecturer in Computer and Electrical Engineering at UWI ST Augustine[13][14]
Professor St. Clair King:Professor Emeritus in Computer and Electrical Engineering at UWI St. Augustine[15]
Orlando Patterson: John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University[16]
Sir Derek Walcott studied at the University of the West Indies
Notable alumni[edit]
UWI graduates who are, or have been, heads of government:
Kenny Anthony, former prime minister of St. Lucia
Owen Arthur, former prime minister of Barbados
Dean Barrow, prime minister of Belize
Denzil Douglas, former prime minister of St. Kitts & Nevis
Rufus Ewing, premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Bruce Golding, former prime minister of Jamaica
Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
David A. Granger, president of Guyana
Andrew Holness, prime minister of Jamaica
Patrick Manning, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada
Joseph Walcott Parry, former premier of Nevis
P. J. Patterson, former prime minister of Jamaica
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, first female prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Keith Rowley: prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, former prime minister of Barbados
Kennedy A. Simmonds, former prime minister of St. Kitts & Nevis
Orlando Smith, chief minister of the British Virgin Islands
Freundel Stuart, prime minister of Barbados
David Thompson, former prime minister of Barbados
Hubert Minnis, prime minister of The Bahamas
Graduates in other fields:
Sharon Aarons, Australian soil scientist
Faris Al-Rawi, Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
Fae Ellington, Jamaican media personality and lecturer
Marlon James, Jamaican-born winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Dolliver Nelson, member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Kris Rampersad, journalist, author, cultural advocate
Patrick Lipton Robinson, judge of the International Court of Justice
Dame Anita Allen, president of the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas
Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political activist
Richard Sealy, Barbadian Tourism Minister
Shafimana Ueitele, Namibian lawyer
Burton P. C. Hall, judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and former Chief Justice of The Bahamas
Adalbert "Bert" Tucker, Belize River Valley Development Program (BELRIV)[17]
Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature
See also[edit]
Jamaica portal
University portal
Association of Commonwealth Universities
Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy
University of the West Indies Museum
University of Guyana
University of Trinidad and Tobago
University of Technology, Jamaica
University of the Bahamas
University of the French West Indies
University of French Guiana
Savacou, a sculpture on the Mona site
References[edit]
Jump up ^ The University of the West Indies, A Quinquagenary Calendar 1948-1998,Douglas Hall,1998.Jamaica, The Press, University of the West Indies
Jump up ^ https://uwiarchives.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/happy-89th-birthday-to-the-visitor/
Jump up ^ "The University of the West Indies - Open Campus". Retrieved 22 September 2014.
Jump up ^ http://www.bcn.cl/obtienearchivo?id=documentos/10221.1/29331/2/213787.pdf
Jump up ^ Report of the West Indies Committee of the Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies, Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty June 1945. London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office
Jump up ^ Brown, |Suzanne Francis (2006). Mona Past and Present: The History and Heritage of the Mona Campus, University of the West Indies p.10-11. University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401597.
Jump up ^ http://www.mona.uwi.edu/marcom/newsroom/entry/6333
Jump up ^ Higman, B. W. (1999). General History of the Caribbean. VI: Methodology and historiography of the Caribbean. London, England: UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-103360-5.
Jump up ^ "Dr. Elsa Goveia is dead". Kingston, Jamaica: The Daily Gleaner. 20 March 1980. Retrieved 14 January 2017 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
Jump up ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/dcit/staff.asp
^ Jump up to: a b M. E. West and J. Homi. "Cannabis as a medicine". Br. J. Anaesth (1996) 76(1): 167 doi:10.1093/bja/76.1.167-a
Jump up ^ http://www.mona.uwi.edu/mathematics/sam-mc-daniel
Jump up ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/eng/electrical/staff/kim_mallalieu.asp
Jump up ^ http://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=562
Jump up ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/eng/electrical/staff/sc_king.asp
Jump up ^ http://scholar.harvard.edu/patterson/home
Jump up ^ http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/98415
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to University of the West Indies.
Official website
Campus websites[edit]
Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Cave Hill School of Business
Mona Campus, Jamaica
St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Western Jamaica Campus
Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago
Open Campus
Other links[edit]
Aerial view of Mona Campus
List of Programmes offered through UWI
The Cavite Chorale, One of the singing groups of the University of the West Indies
UWI Student Mailing list
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Rena Sofer
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Rena Sofer
Sofer in 2014
Born
Rena Sherel Sofer
(1968-12-02) December 2, 1968 (age 48)
Arcadia, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1988–present
Spouse(s)
Wally Kurth (m. 1995–97)
Sanford Bookstaver (m. 2003)
Children
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Rena Sherel Sofer (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, primarily known for her appearances in daytime television, episodic guest appearances, and made-for-television movies. In 1995, Sofer received a Daytime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Lois Cerullo in the soap opera General Hospital.
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Early daytime television
2.2 Daytime television
2.3 Primetime television
2.4 Film
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
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Early life[edit]
Sofer was born in Arcadia, California, the daughter of Susan (née Franzblau), a psychology professor, and Martin Sofer, a Conservative Jewish rabbi.[1][2] Her family subsequently moved to Pittsburgh, where she was raised after her parents' divorce.[1] Sofer attended the Frisch School, a Jewish high school in Paramus, New Jersey.[3] She lived in North Bergen, New Jersey, where her father was Rabbi of Temple Beth El, and graduated from North Bergen High School, before beginning classes at Montclair State College.[4][5]
Career[edit]
Early daytime television[edit]
Sofer first played Lois Marie Cerullo on General Hospital. Her first appearance was in 1993 as a band manager.
Daytime television[edit]
Sofer's first high-profile role was as Rocky on the daytime soap opera Loving (1988–91). She is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Cerullo on General Hospital (December 15, 1993 – September 24, 1996). She would later return as a guest star (February 7–17, 1997; September 30-October 2, 1997). Her portrayal of the outrageous Lois won Sofer a Daytime Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
In May 2013, it was announced that Sofer would join the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, in a newly created role of Quinn Fuller; her first episode aired on July 12.[6]
Primetime television[edit]
Sofer has appeared in several high-profile prime time television series in a guest star/supporting cast member roles: Seinfeld, Melrose Place, The Chronicle, Ed, Friends, Spin City, Blind Justice, Ghost Whisperer, 24, NCIS, and Two and a Half Men.
Sofer briefly joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!, playing the character Vicky Costa.[7] The network later cast Sofer in the short-lived US remake of the UK series Coupling.
In recent years, Rena Sofer has appeared in the NBC TV series Heroes as the recurring character Heidi Petrelli, wife of aspiring politician Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar). She appeared on Two and a Half Men in 2008, as a former girlfriend of the character Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen).[8] Rena also has guest starred on Dirty Sexy Money playing an intrepid reporter[9] and played a ghost on Ghost Whisperer. In early 2010, Sofer began a recurring role on NCIS as Attorney Margaret Allison Hart, who is a potential love interest for the character Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon). She had a brief guest role on Bones as a love interest for the character Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).
In 2013, Sofer had a publicized appearance on Once Upon a Time, playing Snow White's mother.[10]
Film[edit]
In film, she appeared as a love interest of Ben Stiller's character in the film Keeping the Faith, starring Jenna Elfman, Stiller and Edward Norton (who also directed). She also played a bride to-be with Melanie Griffith in Sidney Lumet's movie A Stranger Among Us and in Penelope Buitenhuis's movie The Secret of Hidden Lake.
She played the P.E. teacher Ms. Desjarden in the television film adaptation of Carrie in 2002.
She starred in the television movie Always and Forever which aired October 24, 2009 on the Hallmark Channel.
She also starred as Andrea Larson in the television movie Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style.
Personal life[edit]
Sofer and General Hospital love interest and co-star Wally Kurth became involved as their characters' storyline progressed. In 1995, the actors were married and had a daughter, Rosabel Rosalind Kurth. In 1997, Sofer and Kurth divorced.
Sofer married television director/producer Sanford Bookstaver in 2003. On August 5, 2005, Sofer gave birth to her first child with Bookstaver, named Avalon Leone, in Los Angeles.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1992 Stranger Among Us, AA Stranger Among Us Shayna
1992 Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style Andrea Larson TV Movie
1994 Twin Sitters Judy
1996 Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story Kerry Ellison TV Movie
1997 Stepsister, TheThe Stepsister Darcy Canfield Ray TV Movie
1998 Nightmare Street Penny Randolph
2000 Keeping the Faith Rachel Rose
2000 Traffic Helena's Friend
2001 March Hedy Pullman
2002 Carrie Miss Desjarden TV Movie
2006 Secret of Hidden Lake, TheThe Secret of Hidden Lake Maggie Dolan TV Movie
2009 Rock Slyde Sara
2009 Always and Forever Grace Holland TV Movie
2010 Sarah Teenage Sarah
2010 Devil's Teardrop, TheThe Devil's Teardrop Joan TV Movie
2011 Another Man's Wife Hadley Warner TV Movie
Television[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1987 Another World Joyce Abernathy
1988-1991 Loving Amelia McKenzie Domeq
1992 Freshman Dorm Veronica 2 episodes
1993 Herman's Head Stephanie Episode: "When Hermy Met Crawford's Girlfriend"
1993-1997 General Hospital Lois Cerullo Main role
1996 Caroline in the City Risa Glickman Episode: "Caroline and the Nice Jewish Boy"
1997 Seinfeld Mary Anne Episode: "The Muffin Tops"
1998 Glory, Glory Elizabeth TV Pilot
1998 Ellen Jean Episode: "Womyn Fest"
1998 Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place Lauren Henderson Episode: "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Recovery"
1998 Timecop Dr. Carrie Ann Trent Episode: "D.O.A."
1998-1999 Melrose Place Eve Cleary Main role (Credited as a Recurring Character) 25 episodes
1999 Oh, Grow Up Suzanne Vandermeer 12 episodes
2000 Opposite Sex Ms. Gibson Episode: "Pilot"
2000 Spin City Sam Episode: "Lost and Found"
2001 Weber Show, TheThe Weber Show Dawn Cheswick Episode: "Dog Eat Dog"
2001 Ed Bonnie Hane 7 episodes
2001-2002 Chronicle, TheThe Chronicle Grace Hall 22 episodes
2002 Friends Katie Episode: "The One with the Cooking Class"
2002-2003 Just Shoot Me! Vicki Costa 14 episodes
2003 CSI: Miami Alison Episode: "Grave Young Men"
2003 Coupling Susan Freeman 9 episodes
2005 Blind Justice Christie Dunbar 13 episodes
2006-2007 Heroes Heidi Petrelli 5 episodes
2007 24 Marilyn Bauer 12 episodes
2008 Ghost Whisperer Tammy Episode: "Ball & Chain"
2008, 2010 Two and a Half Men Chrissy 2 episodes
2009 Dirty Sexy Money News Reporter Episode: "The Facts"
2009 Monk Kim Kelly Episode: "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show"
2009 Criminal Minds Erika Silverman Episode: "The Slave of Duty"
2010 Bones Dr. Catherine Bryar Episode: "The Predator in the Pool"
2010 NCIS Margaret Allison Hart 6 episodes
2010 Royal Pains AJ Episode: "Open Up Your Yenta Mouth and Say Ah"
2010 Medium Dr. Natalie Salem Episode: "Native Tongue"
2011-2012 Covert Affairs Geena 3 episodes
2012 House M.D. Marlene Reese Episode: "Man of the House"
2012 Glades, TheThe Glades Alexis Cane Episode: "Old Times"
2012 Beauty & the Beast Sabrina Meyer Episode: "Bridesmaid Up!"
2013 Once Upon a Time Queen Eva Episode: "The Queen is Dead"
2013–present The Bold and the Beautiful Quinn Fuller Main role; 478 episodes
2014 Chicago PD Doctor Episode: "Chin Check"
Awards and nominations[edit]
List of acting awards and nominations
Year
Award
Category
Title
Result
Ref.
1995 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series General Hospital Won [11]
1995 Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Younger Lead Actress General Hospital Won [12]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Rena Sofer at the Internet Movie Database
Jump up ^ http://www.cityviewnc.com/a-woman-apart-by-nomee-landis
Jump up ^ Dickter, Adam. Sofer Sex, The Jewish Week, September 19, 2003.
Jump up ^ "Rena Sofer", Oh, Grow Up, WCHS. Accessed September 22, 2011. "Born in Arcadia, California, Rena moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, following her parents' divorce, and later to North Bergen, New Jersey, where she finished high school."
Jump up ^ Lipton, Michael A. "Heart Condition: For Rena Sofer, Checking into General Hospital Meant Finding a Healing Love with Costar Wally Kurth", People (magazine), October 31, 1994. Accessed September 22, 2011. "Neither parent remarried, and today Sofer maintains close relations with both her father, who presides at Temple Beth El in North Bergen, N.J., and her mother, a professor of developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina in Fayetteville.... She took a drama class during her senior year at North Bergen High School and then, after less than a semester at Montclair State College, took acting lessons in New York."
Jump up ^ Logan, Michael (May 20, 2013). "Exclusive: Rena Sofer Joins The Bold and the Beautiful". TV Guide. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
Jump up ^ Sandell, Scott. "TUNED IN; A New Face, but the Usual 'Shoot'", Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2002. Accessed June 23, 2008.
Jump up ^ Waldman, Allison. "Rena Sofer booked on Two and a Half Men", TV Squad, August 8, 2008. Accessed August 12, 2008.
Jump up ^ Shhh! Rena Sofer Has a Dirty Sexy Little Secret!" TV Guide. November 10, 2008. Retrieved on November 12, 2008.
Jump up ^ "Once Upon a Time Exclusive: Rena Sofer Cast as Snow White's Mother". TV Guide. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
Jump up ^ "Winners of Daytime Emmy Awards at a glance". The Daily Union. Kansas: Montgomery Communications, Inc. Associated Press. May 21, 1995. p. 2. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ "'Days of Our Lives' Wins Best Soap Opera Award". The Durant Daily Democrat. Associated Press. February 19, 1995. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
External links[edit]
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