University of Guyana

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Faculties

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Education and Humanities
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Technology
• Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
• Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
• School of Professional Development

Notable alumni

• Mahadai Das
  Mahadai Das
  
  Mahadai Das was a writer who was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana in 1954. She wrote poetry from her early school days at Bishop's High School, Georgetown....
  , Guyanese writer
• M. Jamal Deen
  Jamal Deen
  
  M. Jamal Deen is an Indo-Guyanese who is currently Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, Canada....
  , FRSC FCAE FINAE, Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair, McMaster University
  McMaster University
  
  McMaster University is a research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 20,600 full-time undergraduate students and 2,901 postgraduate students in 2007-08....
  , Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  
• Odeen Ishmael
  Odeen Ishmael
  
  Odeen Ishmael is a Guyana diplomat. He is the current Guyanese ambassador to Venezuela and the former ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the Organization of American States ....
  , Guyanese ambassador Venezuela
  Venezuela
  
  Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  , formerly to the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   and the Organization of American States
  Organization of American States
  
  The Organization of American States is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas....
  
• Denis Williams
  Denis Williams
  
  Denis Williams was a Guyana Painting, author and archaeologist.Williams' early promise as a painter won him a two-year British Council Scholarship to the Camberwell School of Art in London in 1946....
  , Guyanese painter and archaeologist

Notable faculty and administrators

• Joyce Sparer Adler
  Joyce Sparer Adler
  
  Joyce Sparer Adler , was an United States critic, playwright, and teacher. She was a founding member of the faculty of the University of Guyana, writer of important critical analyses of Wilson Harris and Herman Melville, and 1988 president of the Melville Society....
  , American critic, playwright, and teacher, as well as a founding faculty of the University in 1963
• Joel Benjamin
  Joel Benjamin (librarian)
  
  Joel Benjamin was a Deputy Librarian and Archivist at the University of Guyana and an indefatigable researcher into the by-ways of Guyanese writing....
  , former deputy Librarian and archivist at the University
• Derek Bickerton
  Derek Bickerton
  
  Derek Bickerton is a linguistics and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the Origins of language of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species....
  , former lecturer, now Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at University of Hawai'i, Honolulu
  Honolulu Community College
  
  Honolulu Community College is a public, co-educational commuter college in Honolulu, Hawaii situated in the outskirts of downtown Honolulu near Honolulu Harbor....
  
• Janette Bulkan, Guyanese professor and activist of international environmental human rights; visiting professor at Colby College
• Michael Gilkes
  Michael Gilkes (writer)
  
  Michael Gilkes taught at the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies in Barbados for many years and at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St....
  , Guyanese writer and academic
• Stanley Greaves
  Stanley Greaves
  
  Stanley Greaves is a painter and writer who was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana. He studied Art in Guyana with Edward Burrowes in the Working Peoples' Art Class, 1948-61....
  , Guyanese painter, former head of Creative Arts at the University
• Richard Hart
  Richard Hart (Caribbean activist)
  
  Ansell Richard Hart was born in Jamaica in 1917. Trained as a lawyer, he figured significantly in Politics of the Caribbean during the course of the 20th century, and as an educator in both the Caribbean and the United Kingdom....
  , Jamaican lawyer and politician
• Lancelot Hogben
  Lancelot Hogben
  
  Lancelot Thomas Hogben was a versatile United Kingdom experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He is now best known for his popularising books on science, mathematics and language....
  , English zoologist and geneticist
• Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson
  Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson
  
  Slade Hopkinson is a writer who was born into a middle class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana, Guyana in 1934.His father was a barrister-at-law, and his mother a nurse....
  , Guyanese writer and professor at the University (1966-1968)
• Basdeo Mangru
  Basdeo Mangru
  
  Basdeo Mangru is a writer from Guyana. He was born at Pln Albion, Berbice, Guyana.He is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of London?s School of Oriental and African Studies, and once taught at the University of Guyana....
  , Guyanese historian; current faculty of City University of New York, York
  York College, City University of New York
  
  York College of The City University of New York is one of several senior colleges in the City University of New York system. It is located in Jamaica section in the borough of Queens, New York in New York, New York....
  
• Ali Mazrui
  Ali Mazrui
  
  Ali Alamin Mazrui is an academic and political writer on African studies and Islamic studies. He is an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton....
  , renowned African and Islamic studies academic
• Dr Mark Pelling, Reader in Human Geography, King's College, London
• Clem Seecharan
  Clem Seecharan
  
  Clem Seecharan, BA, MA, PhD is a writer historian of the Indo-Caribbean experience, who was born in Guyana, and grew up in East Berbice-Corentyne....
  , Guyanese writer
• Bertrand Ramcharan
  Bertrand Ramcharan
  
  Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan, from Guyana, a former United Nations official who once held functional diplomatic status, is Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and currently Visiting Professor of International Law in Lund University, Sweden....
  , current Channcellor of the University
• Shridath Ramphal
  Shridath Ramphal
  
  Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, Order of Excellence, Jamaican Order of Merit, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of New Zealand, Order of Australia, Queen's Counsel, Royal Society of Arts served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990....
  , former Guyanese foreign minister (1972-1975) and the second Commonwealth Secreteary General (1975-1990)
• Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney
  
  Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyana historian and political figure.Born to a working class family, Rodney was a bright student, attending Queen's College, Guyana in Guyana and then attending university on a scholarship at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, graduating in 1963....
  , renowned Pan-African writer and political theorist
• Rupert Roopnaraine
  Rupert Roopnaraine
  
  Rupert Roopnaraine was born in 1943 in Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana, Guyana. He won a scholarship to Queen's College, Guyana in 1954 where he excelled in cricket, where he captained the team and represented Demerara in the Inter-county Cricket Finals....
  , Guyanese writer, politician and academic
• Dr Joycelyn Loncke, Guyanese Linguist, teacher of French Language.

External links

• official website
• (guyana.org)