National Scientist Lourdes Cruz is most cited researcher from UP
National Scientist and UP Professor Emeritus Lourdes Cruz has the most number of publications with the highest impact among UP researchers. This was according to the Webometrics Ranking of Scientists in Philippine Institutions released in January 2017. The list is a BETA ranking based on the researcher’s presence in the Google Scholar Citations database. It includes the top 453 scholars in the Philippines–267 of them from UP–with h-indices of at least five. The researchers were “ranked first by h-index in decreasing order then, [in case of a tie], by the total number of citations as a secondary criteria.” For this third edition, […]
CHED-PCARI new cycle of request for proposals
CHED-PCARI is pleased to announce a new cycle of request for proposals (RFPs) for funding. The Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes (PCARI) Project is a project of the Philippine government’s Commission on Higher Education (CHED), in collaboration with California-based and leading Philippine academic institutions, to establish a platform for capacity-building of Philippine Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) by way of collaborative research. Projects to be funded under this announcement are expected to be either in the priority areas of information infrastructure development and health innovation and translational medicine to be undertaken jointly by collaborating eligible HEIs. Proposals must address a significant societal […]
13th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium call for abstracts and student paper competition
The 13th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2017, to be held on 28-29 August 2017 at Peking University, will concentrate on how to combine governance and state-of-the-art science and technology for more efficient disaster risk reduction. The Pacific Rim is never short of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and bush fires, and the historic disaster events indicated that government could and should play a more important role in coping with these natural hazards. Association of academia with governance on public education, infrastructure construction, disaster management, emergency rescue and hazard recovery will be the next “hot” point in the field of disaster […]
IPA Recipients for June 2017
Junius André F. Balista Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics College of Arts and Sciences UP Los Baños Axial Segregation of Granular Mixtures as the Rotational Stabilization of the Radial Core. Granular Matter, 19 (2): 39, 9 pages, May 2017. Catchy title of research: Explanation of granular material segregation inspired by asteroids and artificial satellites At an appropriate rotational speed, a mixture of large and small grains inside a rotating horizontal cylindrical container first radially segregate, such that the larger grains go to the periphery and the smaller grains form the core. Then axial segregation occurs, such that the sheath made of […]
PCED-DBM Careership Program in Development Economics
The UP School of Economics (UPSE) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) will hold an orientation for the Careership Program in Development Economics tomorrow, 7 June 2017, 9-11 AM, at the Institute of Biology Auditorium in UP Diliman. The joint training program is implemented by the UPSE, with support from the Philippine Center for Economic Development, and the DBM. It is open to fresh college graduates who are interested in a career in development economics and public policy, and who are willing to work in the public sector. The qualified applicant will be given a regular appointment at […]
UP Manila webinar aims to help doctors, students build telemedicine startups
The Technology Transfer and Business Development Office (TTBDO) of UP Manila, in partnership with the National Telehealth Center (NTHC), hosted the web-based seminar “Practical Tips for Doctors and Students for Creating a Mobile Health/Telemedicine Startup“ on 9 May 2017 with Dr. Milton Chen as resource person. The webinar had 27 virtual participants as well as a live interactive session with the staff of the TTBDO and the NTHC. Chen is affiliated with two digital health companies, VSee and This American Doc, which he co-founded without any business experience. During the seminar, he stressed the importance of training one’s team on interaction design and […]
IPA Recipients for May 2017
Susan T. Bacud, Virginia R. Cardenas* and Luis Rey I. Velasco Crop Science Cluster College of Agriculture *Institute for Governance and Rural Development College of Public Affairs UP Los Baños “Constructivist Research Method: Understanding the Resilience of a Marginalized Sampaguita Growing Community in the Philippines” in SAGE Research Methods Cases. Bronia Flett (editor). London: SAGE Publication Ltd., 2017 ________________________________________ Allan Abraham B. Padama Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics College of Arts and Sciences UP Los Baños CO Adsorption on (110)-(1 × 2) Missing-Row Reconstructed Surfaces of Pd, Au, and Pd3Au: Electronic Structures and Vibrational Frequencies. Journal of the Physical Society of […]
UP’s discovery of the rare giant shipworm and the mystery it solved
For centuries, the giant shipworm remained an enigmatic bivalve species–until scientists, including those from the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute, recently found a group of it burrowed in the black marine sediments of Sultan Kudarat, southern Philippines. Named Kuphus polythalamia, the rare animal belongs to the common wood-boring, wood-feeding bivalve family Teredinidae. The family is composed of clams with long, soft bodies such as the tamiloks of Palawan and Aklan. But the giant shipworm stands out from the rest of its kind. First of all, it has an unusual body that may grow up to 155 cm in length […]
CHED-CBIE Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Canada
The CHED-CBIE Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Canada is a scholarship program designed for faculty and non-teaching staff of Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs). This program will bring twenty Filipino scholars to Canada to pursue further studies in Canadian institutions starting September 2017. Interested applicants can choose between studying one-year master’s degree programs or a PhD sandwich program with the degree granted by an institution in the Philippines. The program is entirely funded by the Commission on Higher Education, which has entrusted the management of the program to the Canadian Bureau for International Education. Objective The objective of the CHED-CBIE Scholarship […]
