Formerly known as PATE way back in 1955, the Philippine Association of Engineering Schools is now a thriving network for engineering education in the Philippines.

Marcelo, who rose from the PAES ranks as board member and first vice-president, has been Dean of the Faculty of Engineering since 2013. She holds a bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degree in chemical engineering from UST and the University of the Philippines 鈥� Diliman, respectively. She earned her doctorate degree in Food Science and Technology from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as a Fulbright scholar. She is a research associate of the Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences under the Food Technology program.

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San Antonio Writing Project Director Dr. Roxanne Henkin, together with Philippines Writing Project 2016 Workshop Co-Director Mr. Angelo Caverte, an alumnus of the UST  Batch 2011, served as speakers and facilitators for the workshop-training held from October 17 to 21, 2016 for Batch 1 and October 22, 24 to 27, 2016 for Batch 2 held at the Arts and Letters Learning Resource Unit Room. The airfare of Henkin and Caverte was supported by the San Antonio Spurs Foundation, who selected the Philippines Writing Project from among other proposals.

The workshop engaged the selected faculty participants in daily journals, morning logs, and writing lessons. Participants were made to face writing fears, debunk writing myths, and eventually rediscover their writing skills by focusing on personal and informal writing that could have been sidelined due to other school-related tasks. At the end of the training workshop, the participants were recognized as Teacher Consultants who would help improve student writing across all levels and content levels. It was expected that teacher consultants should also be able to organize similar workshops and involve other teacher participants across disciplines and various grade levels.

Writing is essential to communication, learning, and citizenship. This philosophy of writing is what the National Writing Project (NWP) believes in. Its vision is about writing in its many forms as the signature means of communication in the 21st century. It envisions a future where every person is an accomplished writer, engaged learner, and active participant in a digital, interconnected world.

The UTSA is recognized as the largest research university in the San Antonio metropolitan region, offering a wide array of academic studies in the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. It is also known for its San Antonio Writing Project that promotes the improvement of the teaching of writing and improving learning through the teachers who share their expertise with other teachers in the community.

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The lecture was jointly hosted by the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery鈥檚 Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT), headed by Dr. Benito Uy, and the UST Hospital鈥檚 Department of Otorhinolaryngology 鈥� Head and Neck Surgery, headed by Dr. Ferdinand Pamintuan.

Dizziness, vertigo, and balance dysfunction may originate in the vestibular system or elsewhere, according to the lecture. The speaker elucidated clinical pathways to narrow down diagnostic possibilities between central and peripheral causes. Referral for further assessment and possibly treatment can then be made to an ENT subspecialist, like Chandrasekhar.

Chandrasekhar is an otologist/neurotologist and is a board-certified otolaryngologist who provides medical and surgical care of patients, both adult and pediatric, with diseases that affect the ears, balance system, temporal bone, skull base, and related structures of the head and neck. The eminent lady doctor previously served as chair of the AAO-HNS Board of Governors. Currently, Chandrasekhar is director of Neurotology at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in, Bronx, New York; director of the Comprehensive Balance Center, New York Head and Neck Institute of Northwell Health System at Lenox Hill Hospital/MEETH; and Clinical Professor in Otolaryngology at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Luis Guerrero, the man after whom the award is named, obtained his medical degree from UST in 1901. He served concurrently as UP professor and chair of its Department of Pediatrics and chief of UST Department of Medicine from 1927 to 1946. He was dean of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery from 1945 to 1949. He was Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, London; editor-in-chief of the Santo Tomas Journal of Medicine; president of the Manila Medical Society and president of the Philippine Islands Medical Association.

Guerrero is known to be a leader of scientific thought, famed clinician and moral practitioner, and he insisted on accuracy of diagnosis and simplicity of treatment, especially in drugs administered to the patient. He belonged to that rare breed of men in the last century who combined sound scholarship, broad culture, high professional ideals and unselfish patriotism.

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The group, directed by Mr. Arnold Felipe of the Filipino area, was also awarded for the most creative costume (Pinaka-malikhaing Kasuotan). Ten out of 17 schools in Luzon competed in the final round.

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The first speaker, Department of Trade and Industry Export Marketing Bureau Director Senen M. Perlada, explained the DTI鈥檚 role on trade and investment promotion in the global market. He clarified the importance of global value chain, the import and export, tariffs and non-disclosure agreement. He emphasized that importing from and exporting to countries are no longer a constraint.

The second speaker, PASAR Corporation Human Resources and Corporate Affairs Senior Vice President Atty. Manuel Del Rosario, shared his experience as a Filipino Manager in a multi-cultural business environment. In particular, he narrated his stint as a former overseas worker where he faced several challenges, namely, communications problem, cultural diversity, and food, among others. He then recalled the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey and highlighed Habit No. 5 on 鈥樷�橲eek first to understand, than to be understood.鈥� According to him, most people do not listen with the intent to understand, but rather to reply. He explained further on how to deal with problems, manage anger, express an opinion and have own personal branding. Del Rosario also presented the common Filipino character, their noted strengths and weaknesses, and cultural intelligence. He mentioned that Filipinos generally have many positive characteristics which are helpful in achieving competitiveness like adaptability, flexibility, acceptance of diversity, hard work, ability to survive, and a strong faith in God. He reminded the participants to be readily adaptable while working for or with other peers or subordinates who may have different beliefs and cultures.

The third speaker was Massachusettes-based Mr. Reynaldo J. Sermonia, an alumnus of the MBA Finance program of the University of Chicago and Fellow of Advance Study Program at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. He is the CEO of RJ Sermonia Financial Consultants based in Boston, Massachusettes. His talk centered on the evolution of Modern Finance where he presented a number of formulas in managing investments, and pointed out the importance of theories applied in investment which include the Modern Portfolio Theory, Capital Structure Theory and Capital Asset Model. His advice was to choose the right combination of stocks, with maximum potential return.

The symposium also included talks on the power of social media in enhancing marketing effectiveness. The resource persons were Mobile LG Electronics Philippines Product Marketing Manager Variane Faith Mijares, who is also the General Manager of Annie and Lori; Founder and Owner of TechPinas Mark Milan Macanas; and WheninManila, Inc. CEO Ms. Sky Gavin.

Mijares discussed the success factors and struggles of social media marketing for business, Macanas for his part presented the importance of tapping social media, bloggers, and on-line influencers in marketing technology products and services in the Philippines; while Gavin shared his thoughts and experiences on online business

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As Prior Provincial, Fr. Sipalay will also be UST鈥檚 Vice-Chancellor and will chair the University Board of Trustees.

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Pharmacology Department Chair Leoncia Olonan, M.D., and Course Chair Dennis Flores, M.D., explained that these systems refer to bioengineered modalities designed for targeted delivery and/or well-regulated release of medications. Therapeutic agents are applied to patients through various forms and routes, and each of these may have advantages and disadvantages in particular cases. Drug delivery systems may either direct the rate or the location at which a drug is made available or do both.

The course was called FAST due to its format where speakers discussed Formulations, Approaches, Systems and Technologies.

Course co-chair Minerva P. Calimag, M.D., presented PK-PD modeling and drug delivery pumps while Flores helped attendees understand drug formulations. Medical doctors Jean Uy-Ho, described the drug delivery systems for diabetes treatment; Wilson Tan De Guzman, talked about the so-called drug eluting stents used in cardiovascular interventions; Ronald Panaligan, explained glycopyrronium and indacaterol for patients with chronic obstructive lung disease; and Estrelita Judan, spoke on fixed-dose combinations in acid related disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Finally, Dr. Flordeluna Zapata-Mesina discussed immunotherapy for cancer.

During the luncheon symposia, Dr. Corazon Ngelangel expounded on biosimilars, while Flores spoke on multivitamins in intravenous therapy.

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Arriola鈥檚 paper, entitled 鈥淭he Child-Themed Family Drama in Selected 1950s Filipino Komiks-to-Film Adaptations,鈥� examines two extant komiks series from the 1950s and their film adaptations as part of a longer work to theorize on Filipino film adaptation. Furthermore, the sample texts will serve as springboard to examining these as domestic fiction, as family drama, how they reflect bourgeoisie ethos and how they project a sort of national allegory in the 1950s.

The conference was participated in by more than 60 paper presenters. The literatures for children and young adult were interpreted to be contingent to issues related to education such as values, pedagogy, reading skills, literacy and development psychology. Folklore and fairytales from both the West and the East were re-examined according to how they will fare when subjected to feminist, deconstructivist, psychoanalytic and postcolonial criticism. The literatures for children were furthermore discussed alongside issues pertinent to popular culture, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, politics, ideology, identity issues and indigenous knowledge. A number of papers delved on the use of children鈥檚 literature in the social sphere such as the peace process and performance studies; and children鈥檚 literature has been examined to promote multiculturalism and respect for cultural difference.

The Literary Studies Conference is held annually at the Universitas Sanata Dharma, in cooperation with Ateneo de Manila University. This year, there were 11 participants from the Philippines.

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Guests for this roundtable discussion were Nikki Alfar, Karl De Mesa, Paolo Herras and Emil Flores.

De Mesa wrote what may be the first collection of horror fiction by a Filipino writer in English, Damaged People published by the UP Press in 2008, another short story collection, and two works of creative nonfiction.

Alfar has written enchanting modern fairy tales, including the book, Now, Then and Elsewhen published by the UST in 2013. She has also edited the annual anthology Philippine Speculative Fiction for almost a decade, with her husband .

Flores taught the first courses in scientific fiction writing, writing for the comics, and detective story writing as part of the pioneering Creative Writing Program in UP Diliman. He has published speculative fiction, translated Filipino short stories in English into comic book scripts, and written the memoir Virginia Tech Memories (UST PH, 2012), which was included in the UST Publishing House鈥檚 鈥�400 Years, 400 Books Project.鈥�

Herras has published graphic novels, which fall within the spec fic category, such as Strange Natives and Noodle Boy. He is also the president and CEO of KOMIKET, INC., the Filipino Komiks and Art Market.

Aside from discussing their works, the four authors also talked about issues important to the genre, and expressed surprise and pleasure upon being informed that conferences and roundtable discussions on spec fic and graphic fiction are now being held.

UST CCWLS Director Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, Ph.D. 鈥� who writes modern fairy tales herself 鈥� gave the welcome remarks, while CCWLS Assistant Director Ralph Semino Gal谩n delivered the closing remarks. Resident Fellow Ned Parfan was Master of Ceremonies and forum coordinators were Resident Fellow Dawn  and Resident Fellow , PhD.

The participants included faculty members from UST, UP Diliman, Ateneo de Manila University, the University of Asia and the Pacific, Philippine Christian University and San Beda College, UST graduate students under the Creative Writing Program, John Patrick Allenegui, Maria Tanya Cruz and Andrea Alba帽a, the writing fellows from last summer鈥檚 UST National Writers鈥� Workshop.

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