Scientific research capabilities at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) were recently bolstered when retired cardiologist and NCU’s alumnus Dr Herman Ricketts and his wife of fifty years Pansy donated a state of the art fluorescent microscope to the Agri-research laboratory. This equipment valued at more than US$15,000.00 is unique system that makes of one the most rapidly expanding microscopy techniques and will be a useful research tool in the areas of biology, tumology, cytology, immunology, and haemotology.
NCU's Agri-Research Lab Gets State of the Art Microscope
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Cayman Islands Topix News: Oliver Clarke Among Three to Get Honorary NCU Degrees Today
Chairman of the Gleaner Company, Oliver Clarke; former president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Elder George W Brown, and former president of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Wilton George McDonald will be conferred with honorary degrees by the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) today.
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NCU Graduates Produce Electronic Business Card
Grik.ly, a new Windows application, promises to change your static, overcrowded collection of business cards into a useful database of information, accessible on your phone.
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NCU's Team Xormis Unveiled Grik.ly
On Wednesday August 14, Microsoft Jamaica unveiled Grik.ly, one of the first Windows Phone apps developed in Jamaica and available in the Microsoft Windows Phone Store. Xormis, the Grik.ly development team, originally assembled as students at Northern Caribbean University, has a long relationship with Microsoft as international and regional winners of the global Imagine Cup contest and recipients of a Microsoft BizSpark software grant. The Grik.ly developers at Xormis include Shawn McLean, Joel Dean, Derron Brown, and Dwayne Samuels.
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Make Jamaica a place to comfortably live, work and do business
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) 2013 Graduation series which ran from August 9-11 was attended with the usual glitz and pageantry the event has become known for. After all, it’s a celebration of triumph; even as it is a rallying of the forces of new graduates to rise to the call of bringing critical change to the undesirable realities with which we live.
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ACLU Says Magistrate Can’t Order ‘Messiah’ Name Change
A Tennessee judge should not have barred a couple from naming their child “Messiah,” said the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee.
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Pass This Along
So, what’s new in the church?”
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Photographic Highlights of NCU's First Commencement Exercise 2013
The Graduation Exercises of Northern Caribbean University continued to be a three-day affair. The university’s 2013 premiere event featured a Consecration Service on Friday evening (August 9), followed by a Baccalaureate Service on Saturday (August 10), and climaxed with two commencement ceremonies on Sunday, August 11.
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The Printed Pages…Value of NCU Press
“It’s the competitive prices, cordial atmosphere and the quality of work done, which makes Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Press the place of choice for printing jobs”, assured Enric Spence, Production Manager for NCU Press.
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REACH Mandeville off to a good start…twenty baptized so far
After four nights of Bible-based preaching by Evangelist Dr. Oswald Euell, twenty persons were baptized in the Mandeville leg of the Revival Evangelism Action Care and Healing (R.E.A.C.H.) programme organized the Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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Review and Herald Marks 30 Years Since Move to Hagerstown, Maryland
God changes lives through the power of literature,” General Conference president Ted Wilson told a large group of current and former Review and Herald Publishing Association (RHPA) employees and friends who gathered in Hagers-town, Maryland, to mark the 30th anniversary of the publishing association’s move from Washington, D.C.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU's Second Commencement Exercise 2013
The Graduation Exercises of Northern Caribbean University continued to be a three-day affair. The university’s 2013 premiere event featured a Consecration Service on Friday evening (August 9), followed by a Baccalaureate Service on Saturday (August 10), and climaxed with two commencement ceremonies on Sunday, August 11.
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Photographic Highlights of Fall Freshmen Orientation 2013
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) family welcomed the freshman class of 2013/2014 with a grand student orientation on August 21, 2013. The Fall 2013 freshmen created quite a buzz before they arrived, showing their great desire to attend the noble institution with frequent checkups all through the summer.
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Coming to Our Senses
I recently read Colin Beavan’s intriguing book No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process. Beavan chronicles his attempt to live with no environmental impact for one year, in New York City, with his wife and toddler. His protocols included no purchasing of anything new, no buying anything with packaging, no gas or electric transportation, no diapers, and buying food only from local (within 100 miles) farmers.
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Pakistani Adventist Convicted in “Blasphemy” Case
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Seventh-day Adventist to life in prison in July for allegedly defaming Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in a case that falls under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.
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NCU Adjunct Lecturer Receives Fullbright’s Scholar-in-Residence Award
Northern Marianas College was recently selected to host a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, or SIR, who will be assisting in strengthening the college’s program review processes, teaching communication courses and developing new ones, and giving cultural talks and lectures about her home country and extensive media background.
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Photographic Highlights of Versacare Grant to NCU
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) recently engineered a growth thrust for the College of Natural and Applied Sciences when it acquired a grant valued at US$40,000 from Versacare Inc, a Florida non-profit corporation. Dr George Brown, Versacare Director, was present at NCU recently for the handing over ceremony to present items to improve the Mathematics and Engineering department.
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Adventist church bridges back-to-school gap
WITH just weeks to go before September dawns, hundreds of parents in St Ann and surrounding parishes have been struggling to prepare their children for the start of the school year.
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NCU Welcomes New Students at its Fall Orientation 2013
Happiness abounds at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) as the NCU family celebrates a season of change. Joyous farewells were bestowed on successful scholars who were conferred with varying degrees. The ‘onward, upward and beyond’ tide that saw many students graduate just a few weeks ago, signaled the arrival of over nine hundred students to the main campus on Wednesday, August 21, 2013.
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NCU and Versacare Partner in Nation Building
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) recently engineered a growth thrust for the College of Natural and Applied Sciences when it acquired a grant valued at US$40,000 from Versacare Inc, a Florida non-profit corporation. Dr George Brown, Versacare Director, was present at NCU recently for the handing over ceremony to present items to improve the Mathematics and Engineering department. The donation which will be matched by NCU is another step in the right direction as the University’s administration increased its thrust to improve the offering of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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