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The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. W.I. Thursday, May 6, 2021 The appointments of seven new and returning Faculty Deans were approved at the annual business meeting of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) last Friday, April 30, 2021. Among them is the regional University’s first ever female Dean of Science and Technology, based at The UWI Cave Hill Campus, Dr. Jeanese Badenock.
Two new female Deans appointed at the Mona Campus, Professor Silvia Kouwenberg in the Faculty of Humanities and Education and Professor Minerva Thame in the Faculty of Medical Sciences also made history as their appointments brought a 50% female representation in deanships at the Campus.
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NeuroInsight, a new research training programme led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been awarded a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND worth €4.7 million.
On April 21st, 2021, Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021 announced the global ranking of the universities making the positive impacts on the environment and society from a total of 1,115 universities from 94 countries worldwide. According to the 2021 THE Impact Rankings, 26 Thai universities have been ranked. The assessment criteria of the THE Impact Rankings are under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, of which the KPIs are cautiously calibrated to cover the KPIs that make positive impacts at the local, national, and international level in education, research, operation, and public participation. In this year, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi is the world’s 1st rank for SDG7, Affordable and Clean Energy, and the world’s 54th rank with the total score of 89.3% and Thailand’s 2nd rank.
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New research has shown that COVID-19 infections in healthcare workers during the first wave of the pandemic provided an accurate sample of the general population, suggesting that data from healthcare workers could be used to estimate the severity of future viruses more quickly.
The study, led by researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in collaboration with IBM Research, is published in
The researchers analysed the infection data from healthcare workers and the progression of the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak using the reported daily infection numbers in Ireland. Using similar data in four other countries (Germany, UK, South Korea and Iceland), computer models showed how the disease progressed in different countries related to their approach to testing, tracing and lockdown restrictions.