UTech, Jamaica 2015-16 Annual Report

Students’ Performances in Particle Technology” Caribbean Journal of Education Vol.35 No.1, April 2013 • Nova Gordon-Bell , “Jamaican Daily Newspapers Coverage of a Chikungunya Outbreak: Reporting Trends and Audience (Non)-Responses ” International Journal of Communication and Health. 2015 Book Chapter • Nova Gordon-Bell, Black Anglophone Oligarchy in Jamaica—An Alliance of Media and State. In Social Inequalities, Media and Communication: A Global Perspective. Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi (editors) 2015. Lexington Books , Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group • Wilbert Nunes Historical Reflection of the National Qualification Framework. Published in “Issues in Technical and Vocational Education in the Caribbean” • Martin J. Schade Incarnation: A Harmony of One Love, One Heart in the Totality of Reality The University Press of America Faculty of Science and Sport Books/Book Chapters Peer-reviewed Journal Papers • Aneisha Collins-Fairclough. Large-Scale integration of bioinformatics is necessary for strengthening HIV prevention efforts in Jamaica, Journal of Arts Science and Technology, 7 (2014) 12. • Cliff Riley and Beverley Myers. Incorporating interactive teaching approaches in the tertiary science classroom; Benefits, challenges and deterrents to use in a Jamaican university, Science Journal of Education, Volume 2, Issue 5, Oct 2014, Pages 146-151. • Simone Badal, Aneisha Collins-Fairclough, Cheryl Stewart and Keriayn Smith. Potential for naturally derived therapeutics: the Caribbean as a model-insights from the conference on therapeutics and functional genomics, Expert Opin. Biol. (2014) 10. • Raxon Simmonds-Gordon, Aneisha Collins- Fairclough, Cheryl Stewart and Marcia Roye. First report of a complete genome sequence for a begomovirus infecting Jatropha gossypifolia in the Americas, Arch. Virol., 159 (2014) 10. • M. Bakir and Colin Gyles. “Molecular sensing behavior of the first molybdenum compound of di-2-pyridyl ketone-p-nitrophenylhydrazone (dpknph), [Mo(CO)4(dpknph)]”, J. Spectrosc. Dyn., 4 (2014) 18. • Winston Buckley, Hongwei Long, Sandun Perera. A jump model for fads in asset prices under asymmetric information, European Journal of Operational Research Volume 236, Issue 1, 1 July 2014, Pages 200–208. Conference Abstracts/Presentations/Proceedings • M. McGlashan-Powell. “The Development of Magneto-optical Interconnect and Magneto- optical Computing,” in Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper LM4A.24. • Aneisha Collins-Fairclough, Ann Dennis, Julie AE Nelson, Sharon Weir, J. Peter Figueroa. “Prioritizing Drug Resistance Surveillance Among Socially Vulnerable Men who have Sex with Men in Jamaica will Reduce HIV Transmission”. Royal Society Commonwealth Science Conference, Conference Theme: Science for the Common Good. November 25-28, 2014. Lalit Ashok Hotel, Bangaluru, India. • Andrew Lamm. Endemic Plants of the Cockpit Country. Scientific Research Council 3rd Biennial Conference on Science and Technology; Conference Theme: “Green gold: Medicinal Ganja and other natural products – a potential source of wealth”. November 10-12, 2014, Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica. • Emmanuel Ogunniyi and Mr. Maurice McGlashan-Powell. Magneto-Acoustic Emission. University of the West Indies Department of Physics Colloquium, 2014. • M. McGlashan-Powell. Recent Advances in Magneto-optics, Photoics and Magneto- Acoustic. University of the West Indies Department of Physics Colloquium, 2014 • Adonna Jardine-Comrie. Climate change education and school curricula in Jamaica. Proceedings of the 3rd International Scientific Conference, Journal of Arts, Science and Technology Supplement, 6(1). Kingston, Jamaica, June 25 – 27, 2014. • Andrew Lamm, O’Brien Brown, Debbie- Ann Gordon-Smith. Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Research Week 2014; 15th Annual Science Symposium with the theme: “Research: Platform for Participation in Global Development”. Presentation: “The Cockpit Country: A Treasure of Potential” Held on March 11, 2014 at NCU Mandeville campus, Jamaica. • O’Brien Brown, Andrew Lamm, Debbie-Ann APPENDICES University of Technology, Jamaica ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 Page 176