Hasely runs at UWI

UWI St. Augustine News

For Release Upon Receipt - July 22, 2017St. AugustineOn Friday 21 July, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus in collaboration with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) launched A Commemorative Exhibition: Hasely Crawford – National Hero. The exhibition will be housed at the Alma Jordan Library at The UWI from June 25 to August 18. In sharing his welcoming remarks, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Brian Copeland, noted that “Hasely Crawford is considered the gold standard for excellence, not only because of his historic Olympic performance, but because of all that he’s since done.  He is the gold standard for all of us, on and off the track.”  He reiterated that this is not the Campus’ first partnership with NGC and expressed his desire to see more such collaborations with corporate Trinidad and Tobago. “You should note that the Commemorative Exhibition is not The UWI’s first partnership with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago. Rather, it stems directly from a partnership developed out of NGC’s support for the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the period 2012-2016.”The Exhibition will be housed at the Alma Jordan Library. The UWI libraries have always played a key role in supporting the strategic initiatives of the University and over the last several years have developed a suite of print and digital resources to support the certificate and master’s programmes in the pedagogy of sport.  With the confirmation of the formal establishment of a Faculty of Sport this coming August, the opportunity to partner with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago to pay tribute to a national sport icon such as Mr. Hasely Crawford could not have come at a more opportune moment.  The exhibit constitutes part of the University libraries’ long-standing tradition of honouring regional icons as well as their efforts ...

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