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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
Global Connections
DLSU linkage promotes regional research
Alliances here and abroad provide opportunities for academic exchange and collaborative undertakings. These are just some of the groups that De La Salle University is actively engaged in.
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International Association of Lasallian Universities
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Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning
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United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
ASEAN University Network
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International Federation of Catholic Universities
Lasallian finalist in UK oral tilt Design favorites in Prague Quadrennial Biology professor part of celebrated marine expedition
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Representing DLSU, President and Chancellor Br. Jun Erguiza (second from right) joins other academic leaders from around the world during the 2011 ASAIHL Leadership Summit. Br. Jun currently serves as ASAIHL president.
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Evasco receives Award
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NUMBER VOLUME 43 18 JUL 2011
Centennial Job Expo
As the incumbent president of the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL), De La Salle University President and Chancellor Br. Narciso Erguiza, Jr. FSC participated in the 2011 ASAIHL Leadership Summit last June 27 at Niagara Falls, New York, USA. With the theme, “Enhancing Academic Partnerships for Education and Research in the International Arena,” the conference was an avenue to discuss opportunities to examine how linkages and partnerships between institutions can be mutually beneficial in transforming modern higher education. According to ASAIHL’s formal release, “Universities must consider and value industry global work-place requirements and engage with businesses to redefine and direct work-based learning criteria to our students, in order to strategize for long-term sustainability.” DLSU will host the ASAIHL conference on April 11-12, 2012.
The Centennial Edition of the DLSU Job Expo was held last July 4-8 at the Central Plaza and Yuchengco Lobby. Initiated by the Office of Counseling and Career Services, the Job Expo featured 138 top companies which scouted for prospective employees from among the recent graduates and graduating Lasallians. Participation of a company in the Job Expo also meant contributing to the Scholarship Endowment Fund, which was established by the OCCS-Career Services in 2008.
Faculty exchange highlights collaboration
University, China, are both completing a fourmonth United Board Fellows Program.
Two United Board Fellows from Vietnam and China are currently in De La Salle University to promote leadership ideals and collaboration among Asian educators. Bui Hai Dang, vice dean of Researchand Co-operation International Affairs and an International Relations lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City, and Hongbin Pu, associate research librarian at Guizhou Normal
United Board is a Christian program and grant-making organization with members from higher education institutions in 13 Asian countries. Its goals are to enhance faculty development and leadership, collaboration, and values such as justice, care forthe environment, reconciliation, and harmony among ethnic and religious communities, and civil society. A United Board member institution, DLSU had previously sent its own faculty to other countries for immersion and scholarships.
Design favorites in Prague Quadrennial
Biology professor part of celebrated marine expedition
Literary and visual arts fusion
Exhibits and artwork from the Philippines, including those by DLSU’s Harlequin Theater Guild, were voted Children’s Choice at the Performance Space and Design Event in Prague, Czech Republic held recently. The Prague Quadrennial is the world’s largest event in the field of scenography, which is the art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery. The event seeks to strengthen the impetus on creative education. Supervised by National Curator Rolando de Leon, the official Philippine pavilion featured a bamboo house as well as photographs and retrospective publications. The DLSU-Harlequin
Photo caption: Photo by Walter Ang Theater Booth centered on a rendition of a “mystical” balete tree, around which students and foreign guests performed, wearing costumes of elemental spirits. The Philippines beat participants from six other Asian countries.
Gerald Aaron Ang (CHE), Alron Jan Lam (CS), Marinel Eurlyne Mamac (CAM-ADV), Reich Rechner Canlas (CPE), Mary Annjaenette Legaspi (HUM-BIO), Clarence Joseph Co (CHE), Rogie Ann Vasquez (BSA), Stephen Laohoo (AE-APC) and Juan Raphael Seña (ECE) were formally welcomed to the University during the annual recognition rites held last July 13. Star Scholar graduates for AY 2010-2011 were also recognized. Included in this year’s list of Star Scholars graduates are Paulo Miguel Cobankiat (PSM-ACM) summa cum laude, Fredric Eron Tan (MEE) magna cum laude, Kenneth Gregory Yu (ECM-BMG)
Lasallian finalist in UK oral tilt College of Liberal Arts student and Star Scholar Germaine Chuabio (CAM-BSA) emerged as one of the finalists during the International Public Speaking Competition held in London last May 23-27.
Photo caption: A new species of Nembrotha nudibranch (also known as a sea slug) that was discovered during the California Academy of Sciences’ 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. ( source: YAHOO News) Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences and their Philippine colleagues, including University Fellow Dr. Wilfredo Licuanan of the Biology Department, believe that they have discovered at least 300 new species of life in the Philippines.
2011 Star Scholars Recognition On its centennial year, De La Salle University welcomes nine new Star Scholars who made it through a rigorous screening process.
Photo Caption: National Artist for Literature Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera and The Museum Board Member Dr. Cecilia Gutierrez during the exhibit opening.
cum laude, Joseph Emmanuel Benito (BS-PSYC) magna cum laude, Nellie Margaret Chua (CS) summa cum laude, Maria Luisa Jimenez (OSDM-BMG) magna cum laude, Leah Villanoy (MFI), and Kristel Tanhui (HUM-BIO) magna cum laude. 2011 marks the 13th year of the University’s Star Scholars program, the most comprehensive and innovative scholarship program in the Philippines. Through the program, the University has already awarded more than 150 integrated undergraduate and graduate scholarships to the best and the brightest graduating high school students from all over the country.
Representing the Philippines in the annual tilt, Chuabio was chosen as one of the top 6 finalists out of 81 participants from 48 countries. She was chosen to represent the country in London after winning the English Speaking Union Search in the Philippine competition last February. Chuabio bested other 39 local contestants from other universities.
Evasco receives awards University Fellow Dr. Marjorie Evasco of the Literature Department received the 2011 Ani ng Dangal Awards by The National Commission for Culture and the Arts last February at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel.
Back in their laboratory in the United States, the scientists will spend months examining specimens of the discovered species and analyzing their DNA to confirm new finds, along with researching potential uses.
The Ani ng Dangal is an award that honors exceptional contributions of local artists from the previous year. The roster includes dancers, singers, literary winners, directors, visual artists, designers and even multi-disciplinary artists.
“There is very little appreciation of biodiversity, of what we have here, and for a large group of scientists to come over, the locals start realizing what we have,” Licuanan said
In conjunction with the exhibit, The Museum also sponsors a series of art talks this July. Multi-awarded poet Mariano “Marne” Kilates delivered a lecture last July 15, and noted creative writers Ida del Mundo, and J.O. Salazar will also be on campus on July 29. Entitled Ekphrasis: From Images to Poetry, the series tackles the medium and metaphor of language. The exhibit runs until August 12
The group traveled for more than a month around Luzon for this project. They made most of their discoveries under water, where they found new species of colorful sea slugs, sea pens, and a swell shark with distinctive camouflage, just to name a few.
The scientists also hope that their research will show that the country’s rich natural resources need immediate and constant protection.
A fusion of literary and visual arts, “More than Words”—the latest exhibit of The Museum at DLSU— features poems by DLSU faculty inspired by works of prominent Filipino artists, including National Artists, from the Wili and Doreen Fernandez and University Art Collections.
Earlier, Evasco joined the “The Outstanding Eight” of the 2010 SEAWRITE Awards held in Bangkok. The Southeast Asia Writers Awards has continuously been ranked as the region’s most prestigious literary event since its
launch in 1979. Its selection committee is composed of seven members comprising three representatives from internationallyrecognized organizations such as the PEN International ThailandCentre. Evasco’s published works in poetry and biography are included in the canon of Philippine Literature. The Manila Critics Circle gave National Book Awards to all her five books.
God is so good that He does not leave unrewarded the good work that is done for Him. -St. John Baptist de La Salle, from Meditations for the Time of Retreat