March 11, 2009
Today, the SabiNila application was launched in the Android Marketplace.
The event culminates a joint project between teams from Vinta, UP College of Engineering, Computer Science Department, and UP College of Fine Arts. The three institutions are collaborating to extend the current mobile application “SabiNila” to Android powered mobile devices. The goal of the project is to provide students with applicable experience in industry, at the same time learn to work with different institutions within the University.
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Rutgers Graduate School of Education
Feature Story
Dr. Jimmy de la Torre has been recognized by the White House as a recipient of the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) – the highest honor a beginning scientist or engineer can receive in America. This award is given to those who participate in community service through scientific leadership, education or community outreach while also exhibiting great potential for leadership in other fields.
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Manila Bulletin
Mitch Arceo
March 6, 2010
The Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research and Development (PCIERD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) announced the winners of the 8th Regional S&T Fora Competitions for the National Capital Region (NCR), Luzon and Visayas-Mindanao (Vis-Min) cluster, who will compete for the national level on March 16, at the National Academy of Science and Technology.
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Businessworld
Don Gil K. Carreon
March 8, 2010
IN A country where only a few people have stock market investments, Filipinos appear to make for good equities analysts.
On Saturday night, the University of the Philippines (UP) topped 15 schools in the Asia-Pacific region in a contest in which participants analyzed whether a certain company is a good investment or not using the standards of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, a global association of investment professionals.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
Christine Avendaño
March 9, 2010
MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) chair Marixi Prieto was among nine women honored Monday for inspiring achievements in their respective fields.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led in handing out the Go Negosyo-Philippine Commission on Women “Inspiring Women of the Year” awards at the 2nd Go Negosyo Women Entrepreneurship Summit held at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.
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Businessworld
March 4, 2010
Twenty-seven artists and art scholars from the University of the Philippines whose outstanding work brings honor to the university and contributes to national development were elevated to the rank of UP Artist at awarding ceremonies held recently at the Executive House in UP Diliman.
The 27 is the first group to be awarded in the newly established UP Arts Productivity System (APS), which the University put in place to honor and support its distinguished and productive artists whose work has contributed to national development.
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ABS-CBN News
March 3, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – A 23-year-old “citizen cartographer” from the University of the Philippines bested 700 other contestants to become the winner of the first Google Map Maker Global Competition.
Wayne Dell Manuel won a US$50,000 donation from UNICEF for the Philippines after adding more than 1,500 qualifying map features and made hundreds of moderations in Google Map Maker. His edits, which were primarily of local public schools, were judged to be the most numerous and accurate entries in the contest.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
Dona Pazzibugan
February 28, 2010
MANILA–For his “outstanding contribution” to the administration of justice in the country, Chief Justice Reynato Puno is being honored with an international award by his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley.
Puno is the first Filipino to receive the Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award, which is given to an international UC Berkeley alumnus for his “distinguished record of service to his country.”
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Manila Bulletin
February 27, 2010
The board of trustees of Grace Christian College at Grace Village, Quezon City announced the holding of the formal and official investiture of its first president, Dr. James L. Tan on Feb. 27, 3 pm in the solemn rites at the Grace Christian Church Sanctuary.
The college which formally opened in June 2008, will have Dr. Tan, the incumbent principal, as its first president.
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Business Mirror
James Mendoza
February 24, 2010
CORDLIFE, the region’s largest medical- service company on cord blood banking, has opened its seventh facility in the country. The $1-million facility at the UP-AyalaLand Technohub in Diliman, Quezon City, is the first entity to locally offer cord blood stem-cell processing through cryopreservation.
“With this new facility, Filipino parents no longer have to risk sending their baby’s cord blood abroad for long-term storage,” said group CEO Steven Fang. “The new CordLife facility in the Philippines is built around world-class standards such as the American Association of Blood Banks and International Organization for Standardization.”
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