The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, will ho­n­our 50 mem­bers of its alum­ni at the in­au­gur­al Dis­tin­guished Cam­pus Alum­ni Awards on Sat­ur­day.The 50 awardees were se­lect­ed by a bi-par­ti­san com­mit­tee of cam­pus aca­d­e­m­ic staff and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Chap­ter of the UWI Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion, in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the Cam­pus's 50th An­niver­sary."Se­lect­ing 50 dis­tin­guished alum­ni from more 20,000 grad­u­ates from across 50 years was a mam­moth, yet high­ly en­joy­able chal­lenge for the Com­mit­tee," said Mark Reg­is, co-chair of the se­lec­tion com­mit­tee and Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Chap­ter of the UWI Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion."The 50 awardees are an ex­cel­lent ex­am­ple of the lead­ing pro­fes­sion­als and per­son­al­i­ties that have stud­ied at the UWI's St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus."

The Awards will be held in the new­ly- built 400-seat En­gi­neer­ing Au­di­to­ri­um (Lec­ture The­atre 1) on the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.Over the past two decades, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion Trinidad and To­ba­go Chap­ter (UWIAATT) has demon­strat­ed its mot­to of giv­ing back some­thing to the UWI.Es­tab­lished in 1988 as the UWI Guild of Grad­u­ates (Trinidad and To­ba­go Chap­ter) the as­so­ci­a­tion has con­tributed to the de­vel­op­ment of the uni­ver­si­ty and its stu­dent body through the dis­tri­b­u­tion of bur­saries, con­tri­bu­tions to the li­brary col­lec­tion and the es­tab­lish­ment of the pop­u­lar UWI World of Work pro­gramme, now spon­sored by Re­pub­lic Bank.The as­so­ci­a­tion's mis­sion is to fos­ter alum­ni in­ter­est and good­will in uni­ver­si­ty af­fairs by en­cour­ag­ing in­tel­lec­tu­al and emo­tion­al ties be­tween mem­bers and their Uni­ver­si­ty.