The UP Padayon Public Service Office is once again cordially inviting you, fellow faculty members, and REPS to submit applications to the 3rd Public Service Writing Fellowship from May 7 until May 31, 2021. The application packet may be downloaded from http://bit.ly/3rdPSWF-App.
As
a regular program of UP Padayon, the Fellowship is a means to encourage
UP faculty and REPS to document their public service initiatives in
order to expand the scholarship of public service, especially in face of
the challenges of the pandemic. A strong and healthy research culture
in public service and extension will help the University fulfill its
mandate and bring its services closer to its beneficiaries,
institutional partners, and stakeholders. In this regard, successful
Fellows will be participating in a virtual Writeshop on July 22-23, 2021
to help develop their public service and extension research.
Applications
must be endorsed by your unit head, dean or vice chancellor, and the
Member of the System Committee on Public Service Monitoring and
Reporting for your CU. Please find attached for your perusal the
official poster, the Fellowship Guidelines, and the Application Form.
For further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Charles Ramos via email at [email protected] or mobile phone at 0917 5718886.
Are you interested in translating your publications to regional and international languages?
NBDB are pleased to inform you that they offer translation grants to Filipino Authors and Publishers who wish to translate and publish their books to other Filipino and international languages.
This is for a total of P6.86 million grant for the National Translation Subsidy Program and International Translation Subsidy Program. Those who are interested in applying may visit https://booksphilippines.gov.ph/translation/.
Applications for the 2021 cycle are due May 30, 2021. Results will be announced on June 30, 2021.
In
view of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic protocols, compounded by the
rise of reportedly even more infectious variants of the virus, the UPAA
Board of Directors has decided to indefinitely postpone the 2021 UP
General Alumni Homecoming (scheduled in August) – just like the 2020
Homecoming deferred last year.
Due
to this latest development, the UPAA Board has also decided to
integrate into just one batch the prospective 2020 and 2021 UPAA
Distinguished Alumni Awardees and honor them together in a single
awarding ceremony.
As
this will afford the UPAA more time to conduct the selection process,
we are pleased to advise you that the UPAA Secretariat will now continue
to accept nominations from UPAA chapters and UP alumni until June 30,
2021.
Thank you. We wish you continuing safety and good health.
Alumni awardees (L-R): Mario C. Ignacio, Elsa Matteo Gilham, Marlon Saria, and Nenita Pambid Domingo
FOUR University of the Philippines alumni were honored at a recent
virtual ceremony hosted by the UP Alumni Association of Greater Los
Angeles (UPAAGLA).
Mario C. Ignacio, retired chief accounting employee of the L.A. Department of Water & Power; Marlon Saria, Nurse specialist & Nurse scientist; Elsa Mateo Gillham, past Rotary Club District Governor; and Nenita Pambid Domingo, UCLA Philippine Studies lecturer were awarded Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Alumnus, Most Distinguished Alumnus, Leadership Recognition, and Service Recognition respectively during “Explore. Empower. Excel,” the first and recently concluded Alumni Awards Night livestreamed on March 27.
All four awardees attributed a great part of their achievement and success from the world-class education they got from U.P.
For Elsa Gillham, it was in living in campus dormitories, joining out-of-campus rallies, and tackling community and world issues that got her to a life of leadership. Gillham was instrumental in the forming of the Rotary Club of Historic Filipinotown.
Honor, integrity, and excellence inculcated in him during his time at U.P. led Mario C. Ignacio to be the first Asian and first Filipino American to hold the top financial post of the largest municipal utility in the United States.
Marlon Saria, 43, said his U.P. education prepared him to use his
voice, to be an advocate, to be a leader, and to be of service to
others.
More than Philippine Studies, everything else that Nenita Pambid Domingo has learned from U.P. – love of country, perseverance, resilience — is what she has been imparting to her students here in the U.S.
The hour-long Alumni Awards Night aimed at inspiring and increasing
the profile of U.P. alumni in the community featured Philippine Vice
President Leni Robredo and U.P. President Danilo Concepcion as guest
speakers, and Ryan Cayabyab & The Ryan Cayabyab Singers, and Robert
Shroder as guest performers.
Net proceeds from funds raised will be donated to the Kaagapay sa
Pag-Aaral ng Mga Iskolar ng Bayan Program of U.P. Other awardees include
outgoing UPAAGLA Treasurer Virgilio Guinto and UPAAGLA Past President
Alma Onrubia (deceased) both recipients of the First UPAAGLA
Presidential Award.
The Alumni Awards Night was made possible with the support of
Paralon, Sonia Delen, Sklar Kirsh LLC, Philippine Airlines, and other
generous donors.
The Stop COVID Deaths will be launching the COVID-19 HEROES MEMORIAL to honor our global Filipino Medical Frontliners, who have succumbed to COVID-19.
The photos will be included in the COVID-19 Heroes Memorial Digital Album in the Stop COVID Deaths Facebook Page, and the special AVP for the virtual launch of the memorial next Friday, as we celebrate our 1st year anniversary.
If you have a Filipino medical frontliner family member, close friend, or colleague in the Philippines or across the globe, whom you want to honor in the COVID-19 Heroes Memorial, please send a high-resolution portrait photo of at least 300dpi with their date of birth, date of death, and their occupation to: [email protected] on or before April 19, 2021 (Monday) 5pm Manila Time.
We would like to remember their ultimate sacrifice and to honor their memory.
Los Angeles, California – March 11, 2021 – Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo along with U.P. President Danilo Concepcion; former Philippine Consul General of Los Angeles, Adelio Cruz; Philippine Airlines President Gilbert Santa Maria; National Artist, Ryan Cayabyab; and Filipino American Symphony Orchestra Director and Maestro Robert Shroder, all proud U.P. alumni will partake in the first U.P. Alumni Awards Night of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Greater Los Angeles (UPAAGLA) scheduled to be live-streamed on Saturday, March 27, 2021, 5:00 PM PDT, 7: 00 PM CDT and 8:00 PM EDT.
According to UPAAGLA President, Ethel Rubio, nothing can be more fitting than to have a high- caliber, U.P. alumni guest line-up as they honor four fellow U.P. alumni who have made a mark in their respective fields and in the community in the following award categories: Service Recognition, Leadership Recognition, Most Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus, and Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Awards.
With the goal of increasing the profile of U.P. alumni, UPAAGLA hopes that in sharing and highlighting the contributions of Filipinos in the Greater Los Angeles community, this awards night will be a source of inspiration to many.
Explore. Empower. Excel. The UPAAGLA 2021 Awards Night will be live-streamed from the UPAAGLATV YouTube channel through the TFC USA Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/TFCUSOfficial with the support of its corporate sponsors – Paralon and Sonia Delen; and generous donors.
For more information about the UPAAGLA Awards Night, please visit http://www.upaagla.org.
Explore. Empower. Excel – The University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Greater Los Angeles Awards Night
Los
Angeles, California – March 4, 2021 – Four outstanding and
high-achieving alumni of the University of the Philippines who have made
a mark in their respective fields here in Los Angeles will be honored
in the first University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Greater
Los Angeles (UPAAGLA) Alumni Awards Night scheduled to be live-streamed
on Saturday, March 27, 2021.
A nine-juror panel deliberated and
selected the four awardees for the following categories: Service,
Leadership, Most Distinguished, and Lifetime Distinguished. UPAAGLA
President, Ethel Rubio said, “This is our way of highlighting
Filipino-Americans who are U.P. alumni and making a difference not only
in the Fil-Am community but the whole Greater Los Angeles community at
large.”
The UPAAGLA Awards Night is a culmination of a three-part
series: Explore. Empower. Excel was launched in October of
2020. High-profile guest speakers and performers are expected to be a
part of this hour-long, pre-recorded program. For more information about
the UPAAGLA Awards Night, please visit www.upaagla.org.
The UPAAGLA 2021 Awards Night will be live-streamed on the TFC USA Facebook page — https://www.facebook.com/TFCUSOfficial, on Saturday, March 27, 2021, 5 pm PST, 7 pm CST, and 8 pm.
UPLB is set to celebrate its 112th Foundation Day anniversary on
March 6. With the theme of “Future-Proof UPLB: Responding to the
Challenges of the Times,” UPLB will be commemorating this year’s
anniversary with a series of programs and events.
First on the anniversary agenda is the launching of the Jose Sotero
Laurel III Professorial Chair in Agribusiness Management and
Entrepreneurship. Sponsored by UPLB alumnus and UP Regent Francis C.
Laurel, the professorial chair is meant to be awarded to outstanding
professors who have made significant contributions to the development of
agribusiness management and entrepreneurship.
The main event is the convocation program in which outstanding personnel will be recognized and presented their awards.
The day will be capped by the formal conferment of the Doctor of Laws honoris causa
upon National Scientist Dr. Emil Q. Javier. The honorary degree is in
recognition of his lifelong and selfless service to UPLB, his pioneering
work in plant breeding, and his invaluable contributions to Philippine
agriculture as a whole.
The convocation and conferment programs will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube. (Albert Geoffred B. Peralta).
On the afternoon of February 06, in coordination with the Office of Alumni Relations (OAR), UPV Chancellor Clement Camposano met with UPV Alumni from Antique at San Jose, as part of his administration’s long-term goal of establishing and reinforcing the relationship between the university and its alumni.
The schedule also became a platform for the OAR to conduct its regular event Kamusta Ka Iskolar ng Bayan (KAKAIBA) which also seeks to maintain university-alumni ties. The KAKAIBA program visits alumni from all UPV Alumni chapters in the region each year. The event was very casual and cordial, and was held at the second floor of the San Jose McDonald’s.
Those in attendance first each introduced themselves, their current affiliations, and spoke about their favourite teachers during their college days. The Chancellor next introduced himself and spoke briefly about his administration’s plans for UPV. The alumni later posed queries to the chancellor and even shared some light-hearted college experiences with the group. Lastly, OAR Director Rey Gonzales gave a brief discussion on university and alumni-related programs which the Antique alumni could participate in.
This was the first time that many Antique alumni met the Chancellor and OAR Director since the two assumed office in 2020. At the end of the event, the younger alumni expressed their delight at meeting the Chancellor, as it brought them closer to the university’s highest official, and dispelling for them prior notions they had about the administration being some sort of distant ‘ivory tower’. Among those in attendance were Mr. Nocolasito Calawag, President of UP Alumni Association Antique Chapter, Mr. Flord Nicson Calawag, Dr. Susan Atienza, Mr. Rani Rodriguez, Ms. Saredith Sola and Ms. Lumen Marie Rose Quanico, among others.
From Jon Viktor Vabuenas, GMA News: 3 Filipino engineers behind Philippines’ second cube satellite
The
Maya-2 CubeSat, developed by three Filipino engineers, was officially
launched at the International Space Station on Sunday afternoon, along
with satellites from Japan and Paraguay, as part of the Joint Global
Multi-Nation Birds Satellite Project (BIRDS-4).
Behind the
successful launch is a team composed of three Filipinos, all of them
pursuing doctorates in Space Systems Engineering and Space Engineering
at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Izrael Zenar Bautista
Bautista
is responsible for the monitoring of the team’s activities from
planning, design, execution, implementation, and operation of the
satellite. His responsibilities also include the testing of the
feasibility of the Perovskite solar cell mission in space.
He
obtained his master’s degree in Energy Engineering from the University
of the Philippines Diliman where he also graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering.
Mark Angelo Cabrera Purio
Purio
is responsible for the Camera Mission (CAM) of the BIRDS-4 satellite
project, capturing images using the commercial-off-the-shelf camera
which serves as the eye of the satellite from space. He also helped in
the design and development of the standardized backplane board (BPB)
which holds the boards together.
He obtained a master’s degree in
Electronics Engineering from the De La Salle University, another
master’s degree in Education from Adamson University, and his bachelor’s
degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Batangas
State University.
Marloun Pelayon Sejera
Sejera is
responsible for ensuring reliable communications of the satellite with
the ground stations for the continuous execution of satellite mission,
on top of handling the APRS-DP mission which aims to provide amateur
radio services to the community.
He obtained his master’s degree
in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Mapua Institute
of Technology where he also obtained his bachelor’s degree in the same
course.
The BIRDS-4 Satellite Project is a cross-border
interdisciplinary CubeSat project hosted by Kyutech, in collaboration
with three countries.
The Maya-2 CubeSat weighs 1.2 kilograms, is
equipped with a camera for image and video capture, attitude
determination, and control units for active attitude stabilization and
control demonstrations.
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