UWI RESEARCHERS AWARDED

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Professor Christine Carrington took home the coveted Principal's Award for Best Researcher on Wednesday evening at the Principal's Research Awards 2023, which saw several other UWI researchers recognised for pioneering work in their respective fields. This year also saw the introduction of the UWI St. Augustine Research Digest. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00 Receiving the Principal's Award for Best Researcher is, from the Faculty of

00:06 Medical Sciences, Professor Christine Carrington. From medical sciences to

00:14 engineering, humanities and education to food and agriculture, several UB

00:19 researchers were awarded for their outstanding work spanning several

00:22 industries, once again affirming the university as a pioneer in the field of

00:28 research. This is why the UE was recognized by the UN as a lead

00:34 university on climate change. Similarly, our research in health, where

00:40 groundbreaking work has been achieved in the fight against mosquito-borne

00:45 diseases, antibiotic resistance, detection of the COVID-19 virus and variants,

00:53 and development of biopesticides, all of this work is really very fascinating and

01:00 transformational. The UE Principal notes that much of the work presents

01:04 solutions to myriad problems facing global societies, but she's also hopeful

01:10 that they will help to solve the university's financial woes. For instance,

01:15 taking problematic sargassum and turning it into a formula that could benefit

01:21 plants, and using natural resources to invent climate-resistant products such

01:28 as asphalt sealants and coatings. The research at our campus is focused not on

01:36 some academia utopia, but on pioneering efforts with the potential to transform

01:43 ideas into tangible solutions, and in some instances to lead to

01:48 commercialization. And this is important because we need to ensure that our

01:55 university is financially sustainable. In this vein, the UE is inviting

02:01 stakeholders to fund its research and the various endeavors. This year, the UE

02:05 also launched its first research digest, a compilation of some of the

02:10 university's key findings and insights from various research studies, academic

02:15 papers and reports. Of course, I'm grateful to all of the researchers and

02:19 students who submitted their abstracts for our research festival and research

02:24 digest. And the digest wasn't even part of my plan, that's proffsable. So we'd have

02:29 the digest as well, and believe it or not, we received a whopping 169 abstracts.

02:37 The research digest will be made available on the UE's website.

02:42 Vanessa Cutting, TV6 News.

02:46 (audience applauding)

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