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TOP SCIENTIST 2025 IS OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
Top Left: At an Awards Ceremony, FIPA Directors gathered for a photo. (L to R) Director Emma Lewis, Finance Director Karan Delapenha,
President Dr. Angela Ramsay, Guest Tiamoyo Lyn-Pagan and Director Kristina Donaldson.
Below Right: Stephen Delapenha, FIPA Director and Master of Ceremonies.
Right: The Honourable Oliver Jones giving a Centennial Award to Dr. Parris Lyew-Ayee
Our Upcoming Events
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Gold, Silver and Bronze Centennial Awards For
Top Scientists 2025
FIPA will be offering non-monetary Special Awards in 2025 who has demonstrated innovativeness or some other aspect of critical thinking. The awards will be in commemoration of our Centennial, which occurred in December 2017 (FIPA was established in 1917).
FIPA does not offer Awards or Letters of Commendation lightly. The process of selecting awardees takes up to nine months..
The categories of awards are the following:
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The Gold Centennial Award
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The Silver Centennial Award
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The Bronze Centennial Award
We receive independent confirmation of what the individuals, groups and organizations have done.
Letters of Commendation for Persons Under the Age of 30
In 2024, thirty Letters of Commendation will be given for persons under the age of 30 with outstanding achievements in academics, business, innovations, community work, nursing, medicine or STEM.
For more information, please contact fipafamily@gmail.com
Our Past Events
A Major Awards Ceremony
The first writing awards ceremony was held in the Ramson Room at the Regional Headquarters of the University of the West Indies.
Sir Kenneth Hall, the Patron of FIPA, gave the opening speech.
Awardees
Among the awardees were:
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Professor Denis Benn, former UN Director
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Dr. Michael Bucknor, Head, Department Literatures in English
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Professor Maurice Elias, Rutgers University
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Dr. Parris Lyew-Ayee, Head of the Mona GeoInformatics Institute
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Mrs. Emma Lewis, Environmental Advocate
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Professor Emeritus Edmund W Gordon of Yale University and Columbia University
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Professor Emeritus Cecille Harriott, University of Calgary
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Professor Paulette Ramsay, Head of Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of the West Indies
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Professor Arnoldo Ventura, former UN Chairman for the Science and Technology Commission
The FIPA/Cecille DePass Research Awards
Though these awards have previously been given to persons in Canadian Universities, the awards in 2024 will also be extended to North America, the United Kingdom and the Eastern Caribbean. For further information, write to Professor Cecille DePass at depassc@ezpost.com
Recipients
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2021-2022.Donna Swapp, PhD, Western University, Ontario, Canada. Topic: School principals’ work and leadership in Grenada,
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2020-2021.Annette Walker, PhD, Western University, Ontario, Canada. Topic: Jamaican school principals’ leadership strategies.
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2019. Hermina Eddris Morton Anthony, PhD, Ontario Institute for the Study of Education/ University of Toronto. Topic: Kittitian women’s, knowledge production and protest, 1930s.
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2019. Shawnee Hardware, PhD, York University, Toronto, Ontario. Topic: Fostering Multiple literacies with grade 7 students in an inner city Jamaican school.
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2019. Carolyne Verret, PhD. Western University, Ontario, Canada. 2019. Topic: Education leadership in urban Haitian schools.
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2018. Yvonne Shorter Brown, EdD. University of British Columbia. Topic: Growing up in Jamaica in the 1950s: an ethnographic study.
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2018. Mona Dillon PhD. University of Calgary. Topic: Challenges and triumphs of vulnerable male youth in Tobago.
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2018. Sandra Dixon, PhD. University of Calgary. Topic: Jamaican women’s social and economic integration in Canada.