News 2023

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) announces it has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award for a collaborative project entitled, Navigating Home. Navigating Home expands the Workforce Fellows component of the current NSF SEAS Islands Alliance and NSF Securing STEM Islands Pathways awards and brings $5.3M in resources to UVI.

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) women’s basketball team fell short 76-67 in rematch with Champion Christian College despite a strong comeback attempt Friday night at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness center. The loss brings the team to 0-4 on the season.

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) men’s basketball team cruised to an 86-67 victory in their second matchup with Champion Christian College at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center Friday night. The Buccaneers are now even at 2-2 on the season and are on a two-game winning streak.

University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) junior guard Jalen Monroe drilled a jumper at the buzzer in the overtime to seal an 85-82 victory over Champion Christian College on Wednesday evening at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center.

Freshman guard Ashukamayah Phiilips scored a career-high 23 points for the UVI Lady Buccaneers on Wednesday in an 81-59 loss to Champion Christian College in the first game of their two-game homestand at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center. The team falls to 0-3 to begin the season after the loss.

The Caribbean Writer (TCW), the international, refereed literary journal published by the University of the Virgin Islands each year, is pleased to announce the release of Volume 37 under the theme: “Carrying: Recognition and Repair”. Volume 37 boasts insightful and exciting poetry, short stories, personal essays, interviews and book reviews by established, as well as emerging, writers from within the Caribbean and its diaspora.

The Caribbean Writer (TCW) has reissued its call for submissions for Volume 38 under the 2024 theme: “Legacies: Reckoning and Resolve.” We inherit the legacies of those who marched before us, if not directly, some other ways and so reckoning has become a way of life. Some suggest that what will save us is our resolve.

Twenty-two University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, staff and faculty, traveled to Portland, OR to attend the 27th Biennial Conference of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF), Nov. 12-16. Their participation was funded by four National Science Foundation (NSF) grants awarded to UVI to support individuals from the territory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Members of the media are invited to cover and photograph the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) and the Virgin Islands Small Business Center (VI SBDC) launch of the Virgin Islands Agriculture Business Center (VIAgBC) on Thursday, Dec.7, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.in the Great Hall on the University of the Virgin Islands’ Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix.

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) men’s and women’s basketball teams return to action on November 29 and December 1 as they host Champion Christian College at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center in a pair of doubleheaders beginning at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., respectively.