Lithium-ion batteries, with their high energy density and long life cycle, are among the most advanced battery technologies available today. But they can be expensive to manufacture due to the limited quantity of lithium on the Earth’s crust. Electrolyte stability can also present problems from long-term use. This is why other materials that can replace lithium, like sodium, are rapidly being explored. Sodium is a lot more abundant than lithium which will make overall production less costly. It is likewise safer for prolonged application since more stable nonaqueous electrolytes are now accessible. However, substituting sodium for lithium poses major limitations in […]
IPA Recipients for December 2016
Oscar T. Serquiña Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts College of Arts and Sciences UP Diliman Out and About: Migrant Bakla, Perverse Intimacies, and the Musical of Migration in Liza Magtoto’s Care Divas. Kritika Kultura, 27: 199-248, August 2016. This paper analyzes the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)’s stage musical, Care Divas, for its figuration of the Filipino migrant worker as bakla and for its consequent queering of labor out-migration from the Philippines. It problematizes the notion of “perverse intimacy,” particularly through the play’s employment of gay language and performance as agentive practices of survival in the diaspora. Finally, it interrogates the play’s […]
Complexity as a game changer: Reflections on the 2016 NTU Winter School
The Winter School on Complexity Science will be opening its doors once more in March 2017. Organized by the Nanyang Technological University, it will provide an overview of complexity and complex systems science and help participants apply related ideas in their own domains. In the piece below, Andrian Gajigan, MSc Marine Science student at UP Diliman, talks about his experiences as Winter School 2016 Travel Fellow. This article first appeared in the Complexity Institute Newsletter, Issue 2, April 2016. —- Insights on the 2016 NTU Winter School of Complexity By Andrian Gajigan Almost every aspect of our life and society, from molecular biology, ecology, economics, […]
Winner of Gawad Pangulo for Progressive Teaching and Learning shortlisted for int’l awards
Almost a year after winning the 2nd Gawad Pangulo for Progressive Teaching and Learning, Dr. Luis Sison of the College of Engineering is now vying for an international award in higher education pedagogy. Sison was selected to advance in the Reimagine Education competition with his project “HIRIT: Higher education Institutional Readiness for Innovation and Technopreneurship,” the same entry that secured him the Gawad Pangulo title in December 2015. The entry, based on his MS-level course IE 298, helps students identify and pursue market opportunities that can be addressed by technology. IE 298 is delivered via flipped classroom with lectures and readings posted on UvLe (University […]
IPA Recipients for November 2016
Jinky Leilanie DP. Lu Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies National Institutes of Health UP Manila Occupational Safety Conditions of Bus Drivers in Metro Manila, the Philippines. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 22 (4): 508-513, 2016. Catchy title of research: Is it all the fault of the Bus Drivers on the road? Metro Manila bus drivers were found to be exposed to hazardous working conditions such as long working hours, fatigue and lack of sleep, and were engaged in unsafe behaviors such as overspeeding and road racing. All these factors have been shown to be related […]
Winner, finalists of first Gémino Abad Awards to be recognized
The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs (OVPAA) and the UP Diliman Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL) will recognize the inaugural winner and finalists of the Gémino Abad Awards for Poetry and Literary Criticism at an awards ceremony tomorrow, 11 November 2016, at the Executive House in UP Diliman. Thomas David Chaves, DECL assistant professor and MA student of creative writing, won in the poetry category for his collection “Imelda and Catullus: Two Sequences.” He will receive a certificate and P10,000. Ronn Andrew Angeles (MA Creative Writing), Jade Katherine Emily Castro (BS Materials Engineering) and Benedict Parfan (PhD Creative Writing) penned the […]
1st Biodiversity and Chemical Biology of Marine and Terrestrial Life in the Philippine Region Conference kicks off in Bohol, Philippines
The BCBMTP conference kicked off on October 16 with opening remarks from Governor Edgar Chatto of Bohol and DENR undersecretary Isabelo Montejo. After welcoming the participants to Bohol, everyone was treated to a medley of songs from the Loboc Children’s Choir. On October 17, the morning plenary lectures began with talks from Dr. Baltgazar Aguda of the Philippine Genome Center and Dr. Hiroyuki Ogata of Kyoto University. Dr. Aguda’s talk focused on ecosystem stability, biodiversity, and genomics. He highlighted the importance of food webs and keystone species and discussed how an ecological community can have overlapping genomes as a result […]
DENR, Bohol seek help of scientists in ongoing biodiversity conference
At the opening dinner of the First International Conference on Biodiversity & Chemical Biology of Marine and Terrestrial Life in the Philippine Region on 16 October, newly appointed secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Gina Lopez and Atty. Edgardo Chato, governor of Bohol, emphasized the value of science-based decisions when they appealed to researchers to help in the conservation and development of marine biodiversity in the Philippines. Lopez, who could not come to the event due to the typhoon, sent her message through Undersecretary Isabelo Montejo. For four days, local and foreign scientists will be in Panglao Island in Bohol to talk about technological innovations […]
IPA Recipients for October 2016
Jose Ernie C. Lope and Mark Philip F. Ona Institute of Mathematics College of Science UP Diliman Holomorphic and Gevrey Solutions of a Singular Integro-Differential Equation. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1707: 040001, 7 pages, 11 February 2016. Finding solutions to differential equations is an important problem in applied and also theoretical mathematics. In this research, we study an integro- differential equation and show that it has a power series solution. The said equation arose from investigations in differential geometry. We will use a fixed point argument and a family of functions to show that the equation has unique and convergent series solution. […]
STRIDE Innovation for Development Grants for Science and Technology
The Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) is the flagship science and technology program by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Philippines that will spur inclusive economic growth by boosting science and technology research. USAID/Philippines has launched the new STRIDE Innovation for Development Grants for Science and Technology and is now accepting applications from Philippine academic institutions collaborating with civil society groups such as non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, people’s organizations, cooperatives, and others for up to 12 months of joint research. For more information about the new grants and to submit your application, please visit their website. Deadline is 31 October 2016. […]
