We invite you to CONNECT with your alma mater - join the UWI Alumni Association
(UWIAA) and be a part of “One UWI, One Alumni Family”!
Keep in touch via Alumni Online – the official UWI Alumni Web Community www.alumnionline.uwi.edu
Sign up and get the monthly E- Update:
and the quarterly alumni magazine:
Reasons why you should show your “Pelican Pride:
 UWI is recognized worldwide for academic excellence and thus a UWI degree is a valuable investment.
 Founded in 1948, it is the premier regional university in this hemisphere.
 It has over 140,000 alumni professional globally.
 It has a history rich with Caribbean tradition.
UWI’s Points of Pride: There are 3 traditional campuses: Cave Hill (Barbados), Mona
(Jamaica), St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago) and the Open Campus (a multi-option and multi-mode online campus with over 40 physical site locations across the region in
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin
Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands and Trinidad and Tobago).
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Campus Colours:
Cave Hill - Yellow
Mona - Red
Open - Burnt Orange
St. Augustine - Blue
Campus Slogans:
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Cave Hill - “Our Graduates are the Caribbean’s Leaders: Join the tradition of excellence”
Mona - "Inspiring Excellence, Producing Leaders"
Open - "Online, On site, On demand"
St. Augustine - “The University of Choice”
Nobel Laureates :
1979 - Sir Arthur Lewis (St. Lucia) He received the Nobel Prize for Economics.

1992 - Mr. Derek A. Walcott (St. Lucia). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Both Nobel Laureates have close ties to the UWI, Sir Arthur Lewis was Vice Chancellor (1959) and Mr. Derek Walcott is a graduate of the Mona campus.
Nobel Glory also shared in 2007: The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was given to the
Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Control (IPCC) and former US Vice President Al Gore Jr.
As members of the UN's Intergovenmental Panel for Climate Contril and authors of scientific working group reports related to global warming, UWI Professors Anthony Chen, Dr. Leonard
Nurse and Professor John Agard also shared in the glory of the 2007 prize.
Heads of Government: 18 current or former Caribbean Heads of Government are UWI
Graduates, for example
The Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart : Barbados, The Hon. Dean Barrow :
Belize, The Hon. Dr. Tillman Thomas : Grenada, The Most Hon. Percival J. Patterson :
Jamaica, The Hon. Dr. Timothy Sylvester Harris : St. Kitts & Nevis, Dr. the Hon. Kenny
Anthony : St. Lucia, The Hon. Patrick Manning : Trinidad and Tobago,
The Pelican
UWI students and alumni identify with, and are proud of, the UWI Coat of Arms, and therefore proudly associate with the symbol of the Pelican.
Show your “Pelican Pride”! Wear a UWI T-shirt or lapel pin. Carry a UWI Visa Card.
Use your UWI Email for Life address
"The University of the West Indies has to be critical for ensuring that the economic as well as the non-economic benefits of the Treaty of Chaguaramas are made real and patent. The harvest from Chaguaramas will result in large measure from the work and toil of the
products of the Pelican.
That brand and what it stands for is one of the more powerful symbols of the capacity we as a
people have of making the dream of Chaguaramas a reality.
I am sure every one of you knows that the Caribbean Brown Pelican has the characteristics that males and females share the responsibility for hatching the eggs and nurturing the young. I hope that lesson is not lost on UWI graduates, whom I have often called the sons and
daughters of the Pelican"
Extract from "Chaguaramas and the Pelican"
Sir George Alleyne
UWI Chancellor
The Pelican Award: The Pelican Award is presented by any UWI Alumni Association
(UWIAA) Chapter to fellow a graduate of the University of the West Indies who has excelled in his chosen field or an individual who has contributed significantly to the development of

the University or has made an outstanding contribution to Jamaica or the Caribbean
Region. This is the most prestigious peer award given by the UWIAA.
The UWI Motto – “Oriens Ex Occidente Lux” which means “Light rising from the West” – established in 1949.
The University Song – “There is a Light”
To join the UWIAA contact your Campus Alumni Representative:
Cave Hill Campus- Barbados: Tel: (246) 417-4544 alumnioffice@cavehill.uwi.edu
Contact: Mrs. Roseanne Maxwell
Mona Campus – Jamaica: Tel: (876) 927-1583 uwialumni@yahoo.com
Contact: Mrs. Charmaine Wright
St. Augustine Campus – Trinidad & Tobago: Tel: (868) 663-1579 alumni@sta.uwi.edu
Contact: Mrs. Camille Edwards
Open Campus: Tel: 876-927-1201 alumni.open.uwi.edu
Contact: Mrs. Karen Ford-Warner