The University of the West Indies

at Mona, Jamaica

The Department of Chemistry

The first intake of students to UWI was in 1948 and they were enrolled for MBBS degrees. The first lecture given to these students was in Chemistry. The second intake, in 1949, included science students and from this group came the first graduates in 1953.
From these beginnings has emerged a vibrant Department with an establishment of 20+ academic staff, 50+ postgraduate students and with an undergraduate population of 750+ students each year.
For an account of the History of the Department of Chemistry at Mona, that emphasises the early years, see the book by Professor Emeritus Kenneth Magnus and Prof. Robert Lancashire. It is available from the publisher Ian Randle Publishers as well as UWI Mona Bookshop, Turning Pages and Amazon.com.

The Department offers undergraduate courses leading to Majors and Minors in General, Applied and Food Chemistry. The research interests of the staff originally focussed on Natural Products but have since expanded to include a wide variety of topics such as: Reaction Mechanisms, Transition and Lanthanide Chemistry, Bauxite and Alumina processing, Environmental issues, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, etc.

There are over 7000 accessible files on the Chemistry Server so take your time and work your way through using the links provided below:

For information relating to other Departments and Faculties at the Mona Campus and links to other campus World Wide Web servers contact the campus webmaster at MITS (Mona Information Technology Services) (webmaster@uwimona.edu.jm) or visit http://mona.uwi.edu the Mona Campus central web server.

The Academic calendar and information relating to the three campuses is available from the UWI Centre web site (http://www.uwi.edu).

The address of the Cave Hill campus web site in Barbados is http://cavehill.uwi.edu and in particular the Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences is at http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/

The address for the St Augustine campus web site in Trinidad and Tobago is http://sta.uwi.edu/ and the Department of Chemistry is at http://sta.uwi.edu/fsa/chemistry/index.asp