The Philippine Genome Center (PGC), a genomics-focused multidisciplinary research unit of UP under the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, continues to attract high-caliber researchers with international expertise and experience. This time, it is exploring potential collaboration with molecular genetics expert Dr. Gerard Pals. Pals visited the PGC yesterday, March 28th, to see its core facilities and to talk about setting up assays for clinical testing, interpreting genetic testing services, and variant interpretations. He also met with Dr. Cynthia Saloma, PGC executive director; Dr. Raul Destura, PGC health program director; and Dr. Alexander Young, PGC research professor, to […]
6th Interdisciplinary Book Forum to highlight nature conservation and indigenous peoples
Green Entanglements: Nature Conservation and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Indonesia and the Philippines by Dr. Padmapani L. Perez is the book-in-focus of the sixth installment of the Interdisciplinary Book Forum (IBF) to be held on 28 March 2019, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, at Room 1131 of Palma Hall Pavilion 1, UP Diliman. In the book, Perez explores how “the social and conceptual boundary between the indigenous and the non-indigenous, the natural and the more/less natural, the global and the local, the industrial and the non-industrial, the modern and the primitive, only serves to perpetuate the imagined opposition between egalitarian, […]
Call for applications: The University of St Andrews Global Fellowship Scheme
The University of St Andrews Global Fellowship Scheme enables talented scholars from around the globe to spend anywhere between one week to a month at the University of St Andrews. Eligible candidates include researchers active within the humanities, medicine, social sciences or sciences. Candidates may be talented early career academics or established researchers with a considerable track record of achievement. It is expected that applicants will have achieved a PhD. These awards may be combined with other schemes to allow for an extended visit. Suitable candidates are researchers who have, or are developing, a distinguished publication record in any discipline. […]
Call for applications: Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering scholarship
RWTH Aachen University is proud to offer a scholarship for the Master’s Program in Engineering at the Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering in Bangkok. The second year of the program is to be spent as a research stay at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. The scholarship is financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Federal Foreign Office. TGGS was founded as a joint project between DAAD, RWTH Aachen and King Mongkut‘s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB). The scholarship is open to students from Southeast Asian countries with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, an excellent academic […]
Prague Summer Schools 2019
Prague Summer Schools (PSS) are seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds to enjoy their summer holidays in a unique academic and cultural environment. PSS have been organized for the past decade by NGO SCHOLA EMPIRICA, an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization, registered with the Czech Ministry of Interior and an educational institution accredited by the Czech Ministry of Education. For its 15th edition, PSS offers the following programs: – Crime, Law and Psychology – Behavioral Economics and Psychology – Development: Sustainability vs. Globalization – Europe in Crisis: Hopes and Fears […]
5th DIMF Musical Star global audition
The Daegu International Musical Festival (DIMF) is inviting young music lovers from all over the world to participate in the 5th DIMF Musical Star audition. DIMF is one of the largest musical theater festivals in the world. It is held every summer in Daegu, South Korea’s third largest city. The submission period is from 15 March to 17 April. For international finalists, flight tickets and accommodation will be provided. Download the contest rules and application form. Catch a glimpse of previous auditions here. For inquiries, email [email protected]
The inaugural Consuelo J. Paz Lecture
Everyone is invited to attend the Inaugural Consuelo J. Paz Lecture, to be held on 15 March 2019 (Friday), at Palma Hall Rm. 207, 1:00-3:00 p.m. This biennial event is launched by the UP Department of Linguistics to honor Dr. Paz’s unparalleled contributions to Philippine linguistics and culture studies. It is also one of the major activities to be held as part of the upcoming centennial celebration of the Department in 2022. Assoc. Prof. Jesus Federico C. Hernandez will deliver the inaugural lecture entitled “Atay, The Heart of the Matter.” Prof. Viveca V. Hernández will also share her recollections working […]
IPA Recipients for February 2019
Jonathan V. Caalim and Clarisson Rizzie P. Canlubo Institute of Mathematics, College of Science University of the Philippines Diliman On the Lie algebra associated to S-unitary matrices. Linear Algebra Appl 553 (2018), 167-181. doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2018.05.010. This article deals with a natural generalization of unitary groups arising from sesquilinear forms (which are assumed neither Hermitian nor skew-Hermitian). Let S be a square matrix of size n. We say a nonsingular square matrix A of size n is S-unitary if ASA*=S. The set of all S-unitary matrices is a matrix Lie group. It is an interesting problem to classify these Lie groups and […]
Four UP researchers make it to Asian Scientist 100 for 2019
For the fourth consecutive year, researchers from the University of the Philippines have been included in Asian Scientist 100, an annual list of researchers, academicians, innovators and business leaders from the Asia-Pacific region who have won national or international prizes for scientific research or leadership. Making it to the list this year are Dr. Artemio Salazar of the Institute of Plant Breeding (UP Los Baños), Dr. Rody Sy of the College of Medicine (UP Manila), Dr. Gay Jane Perez of the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology (UP Diliman) and Dr. Charissa Marcaida Ferrera of the Marine Science Institute (UP […]
UP to host regional quality assurance meeting
The University of the Philippines, through the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, is hosting the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance Chief Quality Officers’ (AUN-QA COOs) Meeting 2019 tomorrow, 6 March, at UP Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. The AUN-QA Network promotes the improvement of academic quality of universities in ASEAN through quality assurance and harmonized standards. It is composed of COOs appointed by the 30 AUN member universities from 10 ASEAN countries. AUN-QA activities are carried out in accordance with the Bangkok Accord of 2000 which stipulates the guidelines in developing a quality assurance system for maintaining, improving […]
