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the Way Forward?” The plenary lecture was given

by Professor Emeritus Abraham Anthony Chen from

the University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus and

its title was “Mitigation of Climate Change: Report

of Working Group III, IPCC 5th Assessment and

Implications for Jamaica”.

Eighteen (18) presenters, including one each from

Suriname and Australia contributed to seven (7)

scientific sessions.

Prof. Emeritus Abraham Anthony Chen of the Climate Studies Group,

Department of Physics, University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona delivering

the keynote address at the 3rd International Scientific Conference hosted by

the Faculty of Science and Sport, UTech, Ja. on Wednesday, June 25, 2014

at its Papine campus.

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For the period under review, UTech, Jamaica continued

collaboration with the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF)

to deliver football coaching courses. Five (5) courses

were held affecting over 130 coaches.

Partnership with Netball Jamaica also continued,

with the Caribbean School of Sport Sciences hosting

the 3rd Cohort for the UTech, Jamaica/NJ Netball

Coaching Course at the Papine Campus. The 60-hour

course conducted over six weekends,

ran from September to November 2014

at the end of which 14 participants were

certified.

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University of Technology, Jamaica

• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND SPORT

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