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Professor Daniel Coore

Prof. Daniel Coore is a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing, Faculty of Science and Technology, UWI, Mona. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, he attended Campion College before completing one year at The UWI after which he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he obtained in 1994, both the S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering and the S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1999 he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science, also from MIT. He is a co-inventor of the UWI Cardiac Surgery Simulator: a high-fidelity simulator that has had significant impact across the US in the training of cardiac surgeons. His primary research interests are in amorphous computing, robotics and automation and computer science education. He teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, spanning a broad range of areas including algorithms, theory of computation, computer architecture and cryptography. In 2017 he was awarded a Silver Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica, in recognition of his excellent work in science.

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New Scientist - Mr. Francis Williams
Jun 27, 2025

Francis Williams (c. 1702 – c. 1770) is probably Jamaica's first recorded scientist of colour - he would not be remembered had it not been for research into a painting, by a historian in 2023/24. He was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica. His parents were formerly enslaved but had been freed on the death of their "owner". They in turn owned land and had enslaved persons working on their estate. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject. Whilst in England, Francis Williams is believed to have attended Cambridge University. On 8 August 1721, Williams became a member of Lincoln's Inn in London (one of the four Inns of Court for barristers of England and Wales). Williams was allowed to attend scientific Royal Society meetings, but in 1716, when he was proposed as a fellow of the Royal Society at a large meeting (in the presence of Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley) he was denied membership by a subsequent committee "on account of his complection". After returning to Jamaica around 1723, in addition to running his father's plantation in Spanish Town, he established a school for free people of colour in Jamaica. His portrait is considered to be the earliest known example in the canon of western art to have been commissioned by a known Black person to record their own intellectual achievements. The evidence in the portrait indicates that Williams was making a statement about his calculation of the trajectory and return of Halley’s Comment, according to the rules of the third edition of Isaac Newton’s book, Principia. Due to poor archival conditions, most information about Williams comes from a lengthy racist attack on him by his white contemporary Edward Long, and from the portrait itself, which displays some of Williams' library and shows that he had observed the return of Halley's Comet which confirmed Newton's laws of motion. The portrait was purchased by Long after Williams' death and ended up in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (in the section depicting furniture) but was studied by historian Fara Dabhoiwala of Princeton University and revealed much of the truth about the portait in 2022/23. from: Wikipedia
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New Scientist - Mr. Gregory Ffolkes
May 14, 2025

Gregory Ffolkes is an aerospace engineer working with Boeing to manage the production of a variety of space vehicles. He grew up with his grandparents in Spanish Town before joining his mother, a nurse, in New York when he was 10 years old. His aptitude for mathematics led him to study it at junior college however he began to learn about the field of engineering and so he enrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta and graduated with a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering in 1984. His under-graduate programme included the study of aerospace propulsion systems and so although his first jobs where in telecommunications he eventually joined Grumann Aerospace as a flight engineer which included test piloting fighter planes produced there. He later joined Rocketdyne which specializes in manufacturing engines for spacecraft and that company was eventually purchased by Boeing. After earning his post-graduate degree in engineering management from the University of Central Florida he moved swiftly up the ranks within Boeing and has led several projects producing rocket engines and spacecraft components. One of his most recent and significant projects started in 2020 and was Boeing’s manufacture and successful testing of a rocket system to transport astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station. In a February, 2022 interview with the Daily Gleaner his message to Jamaican youth was: “You are the only one who has control over your destiny. There will be many obstacles and you can choose to go over them or around them, but keep your eyes on the prize”.
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New Scientist - Dr. Paul Peart
May 9, 2025

Dr. Paul Peart is a Jamaican who studies mathematics at The University of the West Indies including to the Ph.D. level. He was a lecturer at The UWI, Mona from 1982 to 1986 and joined Howard University as Assistant Professor in 1986. He became as Associate Professor in 1992.
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New Scientist - Dr. Joshua Allensworth Leslie
May 9, 2025

Dr. Joshua Leslie was born in Savanna-la-Mar in 1933 and migrated to New York, USA as a child with his family in 1936. As a student he excelled in mathematics and chemistry but in deciding what to study at university, Plato's assertion that, "mathematics is the perfect form of human reasoning" resonated with him. Joshua therefore pursued a B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago and completed the degree in 1954. Before graduating he met a French mathematician Henri Cartan when he did a guest lecture at UChicago. Young Leslie had the opportunity to travel to France for his graduate studies at the University of France, Sorbonne. Dr. Leslie was awarded his Ph.D. in 1960 and was employed as a professor at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he lectured for several years before moving to Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. Dr. Leslie became a professor of mathematics at Howard University in 1990 where he remained until his retirement. His main area of research was in the application of topology and group theory to solving differential equations and he developed new branches of mathematics from his studies.
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New Scientist - Mrs Kareen Parks-Swaby
May 6, 2025

Mrs. Kareen Parks-Swaby is the Assistant Education Outreach Officer at the Natural History Museum of Jamaica (a Division of the Institute of Jamaica). In this position, she is responsible for assisting with the implementation of the Education Programme which aims to increase the awareness of various target groups about science with an emphasis on biodiversity and Jamaica’s natural environment. Mrs. Parks-Swaby has a B.Sc. in Environmental Biology from The UWI.
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