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Announcement from the UPAA Committee on ElectionsThe UP Alumni Association (UPAA) Inc. would like to inform all UPAA members that as of April 27, 2009, the following candidates who are listed in the official ballot as such have expressly signified withdrawal of their candidacy, and therefore their names should be deleted from the list of official candidates: 1. PONCIANO F. ABERIN, JR. Please be guided accordingly. |
Protein engineering seen to up Mungbean’s nutritional qualityPosted on 6th May 2009The “poor man’s” food would soon exhibit one of the best functional and nutritional qualities after a research conducted by a young Filipino scientist has increased protein content in mungbean using protein engineering. Dr. Mary Ann Torio (BSFT’95; MS’00; PhD’07), assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB), said that mungbean can have increased functional and nutritional properties by means of protein engineering which entails the introduction of specific, predefined alterations in amino acid sequence. Microsoft opens tech hub in UPPosted on 5th May 2009Microsoft Corp. has opened a software research and development hub at the University of the Philippines as part of efforts to propel the local software economy. In a statement, the software giant said the newly-opened Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) is a facility for academe and industry collaboration on innovative research on technology and software solutions. |
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The Bar Examinations: 1913-2007 topnotchersPosted on 6th May 2009The 2008 Bar examinations were the 95th to be conducted starting from 1913. World War II prevented two similar examinations from being held in 1942 and 1943. The 94 bar examinations, from 1913 to 2007, produced a total of 96 topnotchers. There were two first placers in 1944 (former Senate President Jovito Salonga [LLB'46] and former Sen. Jose Diokno, who tied at 95.3 percent) and also in 1999 (Deputy Executive Secretary Edwin Enrile and Law Prof. Florin Hilbay [LLB'99] who tied at 88.5). Museum with a viewPosted on 6th May 2009Overheard from a visitor on the second floor balcony of the new Bencab Museum on Km. 6 in Asin, Tuba, Benguet: “Sa SM Baguio puro bahay ang makikita mula sa balcony. Dito puro puno.” Apart from the museum, there is a hill, a terraced garden, a farm planted to upland fruits, vegetables and coffee, the artist’s house-cum-studio, a cafe named after Sabel (a vagrant woman who was his muse), a pond with ducks and tilapio and a hut in the middle of it, one of a few examples of Ifugao, Kalinga and Bontoc folk architecture scattered in the four-hectare property. Francis Felizardo (BSCE’85mcl): ‘Life as a scientist is fun’Posted on 5th May 2009Coming back home is a decision he will make over and over again. Having earned both a doctorate and masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (IT) in Cambridge, Francis C. Felizardo (BSCE’85mcl) could very well have stayed in the US and trek a career path in science and research. That is beside the fact that MIT had always been his dream even as a high school student at the Philippine Science High School, and as an idealistic Engineering undergraduate at the University of the Philippines (UP). |