School of Sciences &
Technology
 The School of Sciences and
Technology reports that its faculty
has been very active this academic
year in attending workshops and
working on projects. Dr. Marlene
Jackson attended a Global
Information Systems workshop
in N i -..,, and Dr. Daniel
Donkoh attended an architecture
workshop on the use of concrete.
Chemistry faculty member, Ms.
Neromanie Nezamudeen, was
involved in training sessions
for customs officers on Ozone
Depleting Substances and a team
of lecturers from the school went
to the Island School in Eleuthera
to assist in a community fair and
to engage in end of semester
research projects.



School of Social
Sciences
 The School of Social Sciences
has introduced two new BA
programmes this academic year.
A BA in History and another in
Psychology are now available.
 Two new faculty members,
Dr. Stephanie Hutcheson,
Lecturer in Psychology, and Dr.
Kreimild Saunders, Lecturer in
Sociology, joined the school in
August 2005.
 The school has three projects
in mind for the rest of this
academic year. It is the school's
intention to host forums on the
topics of Race; Religion; and
Bahamas/USA connections at
university level.
 Lecturer Stephen Aranha,
who has also been elected
president of the Bahamas
Historical Society, attended five


 The school welcomed four
new lecturers for the academic
year 2005 6: Miss Shaniqua
Fernander, Mathematics; Ms.
Renate Roberts, Mathematics;
Dr. Kayla Stubbs, Biology;
and Mr. David McWilliam,
Mathematics. In addition to these
four newcomers, Senior Lecturer
and former Dean of Pure and
Applied Sciences, Dr. Brenda
Cleare, returned to the school
after a spell at the Bahamas
Baptist Community College as its
president.
 In the move towards
university status and the school's
desire to promote more research
and professional development,
faculty members have been
encouraged to enroll in online
Ph.D studies via Union


days of seminars and workshops
on presenting the holocaust to
college students at the Centre
for Advanced Holocaust Studies
in Washington DC. Designed
for lecturers at historically black
colleges, the seminar compared
the Holocaust to the African
American experience from slavery
onwards.
 Gabriel Lahood attended a
conference in Montreal, Canada
in November organized by the
American Literary Translators
Association. This conference
explored the problems and issues
in translating from and into a
foreign language.
 Susan Plumridge and
William Fielding collaborated on
research conducted by students
in Ms. Plumridge's classes to
produce two articles that have
been accepted by US


University. At the moment seven
lecturers are preparing to start
studying for their doctorate,
which will take three years to
complete.
 A new General Education
course has been approved, AGRI
229, Agricultural Economics. The
school is also offering some upper
level math and geography courses
online using the Blackboard
programme. This is of particular
interest and importance to Family
Island students who can now
access materials and keep pace
with their counterparts in New
Providence.
 Science Awareness
Day is slated for
March or April and will
involve schools in the
community. 0


journals. JAAWS, the Journal of
Applied Animal Welfare Science
accepted an article based on 442
interviews carried out by students,
investigating the "Characteristics
of Owned Dogs on the Island of
New Providence". The research
supports the theory that there is a
clear link between roaming dogs
and unwanted breeding and adds
to the international literature on
the subject. Society and Animals
published the findings of what
was a student-initiated study
on pit bulls by Tyrone Burrows.
Initially based on just over a
hundred interviews, the study was
expanded to cover three hundred
and seventy-five interviews with
.... llg students to discover their
views on pit bull "ownership". This
is believed to be the first time
a COB student study has been
published in an international


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