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History. The university was founded as the Jamaica Institute of Technology in 1958. The following year it was incorporated as the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST), and was formally recognised by an Act of Parliament in 1964. It was granted degree awarding powers in 1986 and a governing council and academic board were established.
Henry M. Paynter (B.S. civil engineering 1944, M.S. mathematics and science 1949, ScD hydroelectric engineering 1951, all MIT) – inventor of bond graphs. Nicholas A. Peppas – professor of engineering, University of Texas at Austin, pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology.
St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [2] [3] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands ...
Rhodes Scholars. Attorney and Yale law professor, educator, founder of The Athenian School. U.S. Attorney General (1965–1966), U.S. Under-Secretary of State (1966–1969) U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1994–2001), senior adviser for national defense for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad (2003), Aspen Strategy Group ...
E. Nadine Isaacs was born in Jamaica in 1942 to Ivy and Wills Isaacs. She graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia, with a degree in architecture. She then returned to take a position with the Jamaican Ministry of Housing, working her way up to become the senior executive architect. [1] In the mid-1970s, she worked with the World Bank ...
Robert H. Coats (B.A. 1896 U.C., visiting professor of statistics) – Canada's first Dominion Statistician. Herbert Marshall (B.A. 1915) – statistician, academic, Canada's third Dominion Statistician. Samuel Beatty (Ph.D. 1915) – mathematician and educator, Beatty sequence is named after him, 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto.
Cornwall College, Jamaica alumni (21 P) M. Alumni of Mico University College (6 P) U. Alumni of the United Theological College, Jamaica (5 P) W.
Leonard Adleman, BA Math 1969, PhD EECS 1976, Turing Award laureate (2002) Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga " computer. Academy Award -winning actor Gregory Peck, BA 1942. Emmy - and Golden Globe Award - award-winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977.