Professor Yvette Jackson was conferred with the title Emerita in 2021 after over 35 years of service to The UWI. She is a past student of Hampton School for Girls and holds the B.Sc (Upper Second Class Honours) in Chemistry and the Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from The UWI, Mona Campus. She joined the staff of the UWI in 1983 as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and was promoted first to Lecturer in 1984 and then Senior Lecturer in 1998. She also served as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, USA and maintained a fruitful collaborative research programme with them. Her recent research interests include work on the synthesis and chemistry of rotenoids, important commercial insecticides of plant origin but she has also worked in the rum and sorghum industries to better understand and improve processes. Professor Emerita Jackson served the wider UWI, Mona as Campus Coordinator for Graduate Studies & Research (Mona) (2007-2012), and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Studies & Research (2012-2015).
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Chemistry
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