RESPECTED Jamaican professor Errol Morrison has been appointed as the new president of University of Technology (UTech). He takes up office on March 1.

Chairman of the University Council and Pro-Chancellor Dr Blossom O’Meally-Nelson, in making the announcement yesterday, said that the Council had concluded the process of selection and that Professor Morrison had accepted a five-year contract as president of the university.

O’Meally-Nelson said she was confident that Professor Morrison was a suitable successor to Dr Rae Davis, who left the university last December after a 10- year tenure.

The new UTech president, in the meantime, said he would like to foster “student-centredness and promote an entrepreneurial approach to research and development aided by national, regional and international fundraising.

Professor Morrison is the first individual to receive a double professorship at the University of the West Indies. He received his medical degree from the Royal University of Malta in 1969 and later completed a master’s and doctoral programme at the University College, London and University of the West Indies, respectively.