The Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Announcements
The 27-30 November 2018
CAS Conference has now ended.
On behalf of CASJ let me say that we hope that you found the Conference discussions interesting and thought-provoking and that you had sufficient time for interacting with other delegates. For those visiting Jamaica for the first time we hope you enjoyed your visit and that your flights home went smoothly and safely.
The announcement of the award of two new Fellows was made at the Banquet: Professor Reynold Stone and Professor Michael Taylor.
Pictures to follow soon.
The 22nd CAS Biennial Conference and General Meeting venue proposed for 2020 is Guyana, more details to come later.
Volume 1 Issue #4 of the CAS Newsletter now released, September 2018.
2018 TWAS Prizes to Young
Scientists from the Caribbean Region.
1)- Nominees for the prize should be no older than forty years of age,
hold at least a Master's degree, have a good record of research
publications in internationally recognized journals, be nationals of
a developing country, and have worked and lived in the Caribbean
Region for a minimum of 2 years immediately prior to their
nomination;
- A committee of eminent scientists in the country should be formed
for selecting the prize winners, including if possible Members of
TWAS. Names of committee members should be sent to TWAS for
information;
- The awarding organizations should send a complete "profile" of the
selected nominees to TWAS, providing details on their achievements,
together with a curriculum vitae and the full list of publications;
- The prize should be presented to the awardee(s) by a
high-ranking public figure (e.g. head of state/government, minister
of science & technology) at the 21st CAS General Meeting and Conference to be held in Kingston, Jamaica in November 2018.
2) Please also note the following procedure:
A maximum amount of up to US$2,000 will be provided for these
prizes. Kindly note that the prize cannot be split into more than 2 shared-awards, i.e. there will be maximum two winners sharing the
prize.
3) Deadline for the duly completed "Profile of
Prize candidate" for 2018 is now gone.
Professor
Emeritus Wilfred Chan, a Foundation Fellow and Former President of CAS, passed away on Wednesday 27th
September 2017. Further details here.
A Celebration of Life was held at The Chapel, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus on the 12th January 2018 at 2PM to commemorate Prof Cedric Hassall, FRS and Prof Wilfred Chan, CD his PhD student (they both passed away in September 2017).
At the 20th Biennial General Meeting of The Caribbean Academy of
Sciences held on Friday 24th November 2016 in Guadeloupe, the following members were elected to the Executive for the
period 2016 - 2018:-
President: Professor Emeritus Winston Mellowes
Secretary: Dr. Jo-Anne Sewlal
Treasurer: Dr. Mark Wuddivira
PRO: Dr. Patricia Sealy
Foreign Secretary: Dr. Trevor Alleyne, who subsequently resigned leaving the Post vacant
Following an email ballot closing March 31st 2017, the Chairperson of the Election Committee advised that Professor Robert Lancashire would serve as CAS’ Foreign Secretary for the term ending 2018.
Scenes  from the Opening and
Closing sessions
The Programme for the CAS 2016 General Meeting
On Thursday, July 7, 2016 (9:00
am - 4:00 pm) at the Physics Lecture Theatre C, UWI Mona Campus, the
Caribbean Academy of Sciences, Jamaica (CASJ), The University of the West
Indies (UWI), Mona Campus and the Solar Radiation Management Governance
Initiative (SRMGI), hosted a workshop on SRM geoengineering, a highly
controversial proposal for addressing climate change The event was chaired
by Professor Tara Dasgupta, (Chair, CASJ) and emphasised participatory
activities and group discussions. Speakers included Professor Michael Taylor
(The University of West Indies, Mona), Andy Parker (Institute for Advanced
Sustainability Studies, Germany) and Mr. Dwight Lewis (Senior Advisor on Energy
Matters to Dr. The Hon. Andrew Wheatley, Minister of Science, Energy and
Technology). The event was streamed through UWI, Mona TV (9AM-12noon Jamaica time, http://tv.mona.uwi.edu/srm-meeting). Further details are available on the CASJ web site.
On January 25, 2016, the CAS Guadeloupe Chapter (DFA) elected a new Executive for 2016 and beyond:-
Dr. Thomas FORISSIER - President
Professor Olivier GROS - Secretary
Dr. Yves MAZABRAUD - Treasurer
Professor Emeritus Trevor Jackson, a Fellow of CAS, passed away on Monday 18th January 2016. Further details can be found at the UWI Seismic Research Centre page
Applications were invited for the CAS-TWAS Young Scientist Award for years 2015 and 2016. The Award was worth US$2,000.00. The following conditions applied:-
1. The Award shall be given to the individual who has done the most to advance the programmes of Scientific Research as judged by the quality of his/her publications and/or patents in one of the following fields: Chemistry, Mathematics, Life Sciences, Physics and Engineering.
2. The age of the applicant must not exceed 40 years during the year of the Award and must be a resident of the Caribbean region, Most of the research must also have been done in the Caribbean region. As individual can only receive one such Award.
3. The recipients of the Award will be expected to make a Scientific Presentation at the 20th meeting of The Academy to be held in the beautiful island of Guadeloupe in November 2016.
4. It is to be understood that by accepting this Award, the recipient is agreeing to present an update of his/her research at the subsequent CAS Biennial conference.
5. Nominations for the years 2015 and 2016 Awards (
made on the required forms) should have reached the office of the CAS Secretariat by 15th August 2015 and 30th June 2016 respectively. (Note the extension for this year)
Of interest to CAS members is the document " Working with Big Ideas of Science Education" from IAP which discusses the
implication for the selection of content, pedagogy, student assessment
and teacher education of putting the principles and big ideas into
practice. In relation to pedagogy there is a reciprocal relationship
between inquiry and working towards big ideas. Inquiry facilitates deep
understanding, but will only be of benefit to young people if the ideas
they develop lead them to make sense of the world around and appreciate
the nature of science and its impact on our lives. Released 1 Mar 2015
At the 2015 Trinidad Chapter Elections, the following were elected to the Executive:-
President - Dr. Yuri Clement
Secretary - Dr. Jo-Anne Sewlal
Treasurer - Dr. Reynold Stone
Public Relations Officer - Dr. Diane Ignacio
Floor Member - Dr. Gail Baccus-Taylor
At the 19th Biennial General Meeting held in Tobago in November 2014, Dr. Sally Radford was elected a CAS Fellow (seen here receiving certificate from Orville London, Chief Secretary of
the Tobago House of Assembly).
At the 19th Biennial General Meeting of The Caribbean Academy of
Sciences held on Friday 21st November 2014 at the Magdalena Grand Beach
Resort, the following members were elected to the Executive for the
period 2014 - 2016:-
President - Dr. Trevor Alleyne
Secretary - Professor Winston Mellowes
Treasurer - Dr. Mark Wuddivira
Foreign Secretary - Eng. Hollis Charles
Public Relations Officer - Dr. Patricia Sealy
Council comprises the above, together with:-
Dr. Jorge Moreno President, Antigua Chapter
Prof. Jean Louis Mansot President, Guadeloupe Chapter
Dr. Andrea Sealy President, Barbados Chapter
Mr. Gary Mendonca President, Guyana Chapter
Professor Tara Dasgupta President, Jamaica Chapter
Dr. Yuri Clement
President, Trinidad & Tobago Chapter
At this meeting it was announced that the 20th Biennial General Meeting and Conference 2016, will be held in Guadeloupe.
Call for Nominations-Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology 2014
Trinidad and Tobago has nurtured many sons and daughters who have left
their mark in science and technology to the benefit of peoples in the
Caribbean and around the world. For many, their contributions have gone
unrecognized and unrecorded. Thus in 2006, NIHERST created, with the
support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education
(MSTTE), a special award scheme to recognize and reward nationals for
outstanding achievements in science and technology. The life stories and
achievements of awardees are documented in the series entitled Trinidad
and Tobago Icons in Science, Technology & Innovation, which
provides positive role models for our youth to emulate, while also
recording our scientific heritage for posterity. In 2009, the Caribbean
Academy of Science (CAS) joined NIHERST in presenting these awards.
We have re-branded the awards to honour some of our science icons. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit nominations for:
• The Fenrick De Four Award for Engineering
• The Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso Award for Medical Sciences
• The Rudranath Capildeo Award for Applied Science & Technology
• The Julian Kenny Award for Natural Sciences
• The Anthony Williams Award for Technological Innovation in Arts & Culture
• The Frank Rampersad Award for Junior Scientist
• The Ranjit Kumar Award for Junior Engineer.
Please visit http://www.niherst.gov.tt/awards/awards-st.html to download the nomination forms or e-mail awards@niherst.gov.tt, or secretariat@caswi.org for queries.
All nominations closed on Monday 30th June 2014
There is a
call for papers for the X International Interdisciplinary Congress of Scientific Research, to be held in Santo Domingo, DR, in June 2015.
This years Gender Summit will bring together scientists, gender scholars, policy makers and other stakeholders in the science endeavour. It will focus on Horizon 2020 and on the strategic
and crosscutting roles assigned to gender in H2020 work programme, where it is
included in over 100 calls from societal issues to health, environment,
transport, water, energy food security, and technology. For the first
time in the history of EU funding gender equality and gender dimension in
research content have been included as a criterion of success. More information can be found at the
Gender Summit web site.
On 23rd November 2013, NIHERST together with the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Caribbean Academy of Science (CAS), presented a number of awards for Excellence in Science and Technology.
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The Fenrick De Four Award for Engineering:
- Prof. Richard Dawe (Gold)
Prof. Stephan Gift (Silver)
Dr. Myron Chin (Silver)
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The Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso Award for Medical Sciences
- Prof. Dave Chadee (Gold)
Prof. Terrence Seemungal (Silver)
Prof. Lexley Pinto Pereira (Silver)
Dr. Ravi Birla (Silver)
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The Rudranath Capildeo Award for Applied Science & Technology
- Dr. Roger Pulwarty (Gold)
Prof. Haroun Shah (Gold)
Dr. Shirin Haque (Silver)
Dr. Rohanie Maharaj (Silver)
Dr. Philip Phillips (Silver)
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The Julian Kenny Award for Natural Sciences
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The Anthony Williams Award for Technological Innovation in Arts & Culture
- Mr. Willi Chen (Gold)
Mr. Jim Phillip (Gold)
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The Frank Rampersad Award for Junior Scientist
- Mr. Jahson Alemu (Silver)
Dr. Rajini Haraksingh (Silver)
Dr. Yaisa Andrews-Zwilling (Silver)
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The Ranjit Kumar Award for Junior Engineer.
- Engineer Savitree Singh (Silver)
The Gold and Silver Awardees with Dr. the Honorable Rupert Griffith. Minister of Science and Technology, T&T and
Prof Michael Clegg, Foreign Secretary of the US National Academy of Sciences (who gave the keynote address)
At right are the President and Foreign Secretary of CAS, Dr Trevor Alleyne and Eng. Hollis Charles
The awards were open to Nationals of Trinidad and Tobago (birth or
citizenship) and CARICOM nationals and other persons who had been
resident in T&T for 10 years and above.
The
guidelines for nomination and
nomination forms are attached with
further information from NIHERST relating to the awards.
Applications were invited for the CAS-TWAS Young Scientist Award for
2014. The Award is worth US$2000.00. Please find eligibility and
criteria guidelines below.
The following conditions apply:-
- The Award shall be given to the individual who has done the most
to advance the progress of scientific research as judged by the quality
of his/her publications and/or patents in the fields of Chemistry,
Mathematics, Life Sciences, Physics and Engineering.
- The age of the applicant must not exceed 40 years during the year of
the Award. He/She must be a resident of the Caribbean region and most
of the work for the Award must also have been done in the Caribbean
region, An individual can only receive one such Award.
- The recipient of the Award will be expected to make a Scientific
Presentation at the 19th Meeting of The Academy to be held in Tobago in
November 2014.
- Nominations for the 2014 Award (on the
required forms) should reach the office of the CAS Secretariat by July 30th 2014.
In observance of International Women's Day on March 8th, 2013 see the report from Prof Neela Badrie.
For a copy of the IANAS book on Women Scientists in the Americas see http://www.ianas.org/books/WOMEN_SCIENTISTS_IN_THE_AMERICAS_low_res.pdf
The deadline for new submissions to the Schlumberger Foundation Call for Applications for the 2013-2014 Faculty for the Future Fellowships passed in Nov 2012. Bookmark the application web site for future reference:www.fftf.slb.com
Some of the participants at the CAS meeting in Barbados
The following executive was appointed:
President - Dr. Trevor Alleyne
Secretary - Professor Gossett Oliver
Treasurer: - Dr. Gail Baccus-Taylor
Foreign Secretary - Eng. Hollis Charles
Public Relations Officer - Professor Ronald Young
Photos from the opening ceremony that featured Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and Barbados’s top folk singer and cultural
Ambassador, Dr Anthony Carter ("Gabby")
IANAS Fellowship application form and
guidelines are available on the CAS publicity page - Deadline now closed
(15th August 2011)
A
transmission electron microscopy meeting (mainly in French, partly in English) should have taken place in Guadeloupe between the 9th and 16th of May 2011. To be followed by
a Caribbean summer school in electron microscopy (all lectures, practical teaching in English) in Guadeloupe between the 1st and 13th of July 2011.
Contact the Guadeloupe Chapter of CAS for more details (Prof. J.L. Mansot, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Campus de Fouillole, Guadeloupe, jlmansot(AT)univ-ag.fr).
From the 17th CAS General Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda.
The new Antigua and Barbuda Chapter was launched with over 12 new members and their new President Professor Jorge Moreno appointed.
Two new Fellows were appointed (Professor Winston Suite and Professor
Robert Lancashire, shown above on either side of the new President, Eng. Hollis Charles)
The CAS/TWAS Young Scientist being awarded by the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the
Honourable Baldwin Spencer.
Members of the outgoing executive.
The Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) Jamaica Chapter, cordially invites you to attend its 21st General Meeting on Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 2:30 pm, Chemistry Lecture Theatre-C5, the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot (Lecturer - Department of Chemistry, UWI, Mona) - will make a presentation on the Young Scientists Ambassador Program (YSAP) and the Young Scientists Volunteer Program (YSVP).
The
Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) Jamaica Chapter, staged
its 20th General Meeting on Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 2:30 pm,
Chemistry Lecture Theatre-C5, the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Keynote speaker Dr. Michael Taylor - CAS Young Scientist Awardee 2008 made a presentation on “Caribbean Climate - We know enough to at least start.”
CAS held a Teachers Workshop at the Office of the Ministry of Education in Georgetown, Guyana with Theme: "Learning Science and Mathematics as Inquiry through Design Activities" from the 7th October 2009. There were 35 course participants expected, as well as an additional 20 teachers from Guyana. The workshop was sponsored by OAS, IANAS and CDB.
A report on the IANAS Science Funding Landscape Workshop held in Guatemala City, Guatemala 26-28 July 2009 has been prepared by
Jo-Anne Nina Sewlal, CAS Young Scientist Representative.
The
Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) Jamaica Chapter, staged
its 19th General Meeting on Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 2:30 pm,
Chemistry Lecture Theatre-C5, the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Keynote speaker was Professor Ronald Young - Pro Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona and he made
a presentation on “Graduate Studies
in the Caribbean: Where are we going?”
CAS organised a free Panel Discussion on "Swine Flu: The A/H1N1 virus" on Tuesday the 30th June at the Ampitheatre A, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Champs Fleur, Trinidad and Tobago.
More information on CAS involvement in the ICT Euro-AfriCa Project and the March Workshop is now available.
CAS organised a Caribbean Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CCICT) with the theme: Research, Applications and Policies. This was held at the UWI, Mona Campus on the 16th and 17th of March, 2009. Further information and the schedule is available online. The Opening Ceremony was at 8:30 AM on Monday 16th March 2009.
 
Shown at the Opening Ceremony are: The Minister of State, Michael
Stern, The President of CAS, Prof Tara Dasgupta, The Principal of UWI,
Mona, Prof Gordon Shirley and the Dean of the Faculty of Pure and
Applied Sciences at UWI, Mona, Prof Ishenkumba Kahwa.
At right is a scene from the second day where over 100 were present to listen to a presentation on the impact of ICT on the environment.
The CAS 16th General Meeting was held in Grenada 11th-13th October 2008. It was hosted by the Government of Grenada and The Trinidad Chapter of the Academy
On the 9th and 10th October 2008, just prior to the 16th General Meeting, CAS in association with TWAS hosted a workshop for Science Teachers. The programme details are now available.
Read the report on an IAP-IANAS meeting held in Brazil 4-9th August 2008.
IAP Bio-Security Questionnaire
The 16th General Meeting of the Jamaica Chapter was held on the April 17, 2008 at 2.30 p.m.
in Chemistry Lecture Theatre, C5.
The keynote address titled: “Biodiversity and Extinction in the Brave New Ocean” was delivered by
Professor Jeremy Jackson, William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California, U. S. A.
LINKS
The following links provide information relating to the Caribbean Academy of Sciences:
2007 Notice about CASWI.ORG
A Brief History of CAS
CAS e-journal
The Executive as of November 2018 comprises:
| President: |
Professor Emeritus Winston Mellowes |
wamello@yahoo.com |
| Secretary |
Dr. Jo-Anne Sewlal |
joannesewlal@gmail.com |
| Foreign Secretary |
Professor Emeritus Robert Lancashire
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rjlanc@caswi.org |
| Treasurer: |
Professor Reynold Stone
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reynold.stone@sta.uwi.edu
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| P.R.O. |
Dr. Mark Wuddivira
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mark.wuddivira@sta.uwi.edu
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