The recently commissioned Hogben Drayton Maths and Science Centre at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen campus, honours UG’s first chancellor and vice chancellor Lancelot Hogben and Harold Drayton respectively.
At a ceremony held on Wednesday for the commissioning and also to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the University of Guyana Act, current Chancellor Edward Greene said, “It is indeed a day of great significance. It is historic. It helps us to pay homage to the ultimate patron of this university, former premier and former president of the Republic of Guyana, Dr Cheddi Jagan.”
He said that Jagan had a vision for a national university that would contribute towards harnessing the human capital and produce graduates fit for purpose. “As we celebrate the proclamation of the Act of April 19th, 1963 that gave effect to the establishment of the University of Guyana, we at this institute and in the wider national and regional communities and those in the dispersed Guyana diaspora, would honour the ever present memory of Dr Jagan,” Greene said.
It is in this context that the Hogben Drayton Centre is a significant manifestation of the rich heritage of the university.
Hogben was an English academician, a mathematician and social biologist and Drayton was a biologist, and public health advocate.
