The University of the West Indies’ (The UWI) Professor of Molecular Biology, Professor Paul Brown, was recently elected to the Council on Microbial Sciences (COMS). His term in office commenced on July 1, 2022, and will run until June 30, 2025. Prof.

The University of the West Indies’ leading expert on national security and economic development, Professor Anthony Clayton, gave a keynote expert assessment to the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (ABDM) at the UN Headquarters in New York - hosted from June

At the sitting of its University Finance and General Purposes Committee (U-F&GPC) on October 27, 2021, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) ratified the Naming Committee’s decision to convert the P.J. Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy into a University Institute.

On June 18, the United Nations (UN) recognised the International Day for Countering Hate Speech for the first time.

High commendation was bestowed on The University of the West Indies (The UWI) from the world’s leading global volcanological association.