Tag: February 1, 2006

A COLLEGE of Education (Education) alumna reminded Education students to be more committed to teaching during the celebration of the 80th foundation year of Education at the Engineering Complex last Jan. 14.

“The University should teach students to have real service and commitment for teaching,” said Dr. Josephine Anino, an outstanding alumni honoree in the field of Education. “If they don’t, who will teach the next generation?”

She said most of the education students nowadays use their courses as mere stepping stones for work abroad.

A CHEMISTRY graduate of the UST Graduate School (GS) won the 2005 Outstanding Dissertation in Chemistry Award from the Philippine Council for Advanced Research and Development (PCASTRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

Dr. Benilda Ebarvia, a senior science research specialist at DOST’s Industrial Technology Development Institute, won with her paper, “Biomimetic piezoelectric quartz crystal sensor for caffeine based on molecular imprinted polymer.”

A COLLEGE of Nursing (Nursing) alumna said the country has to be at par with the international standards of patient safety if only to improve the quality of patient care in the Philippines.

According to Maria Carlota Rivera-Recacho, a registered nurse with Masters of Science in Nursing degree who has worked in hospitals abroad, patient care in the Philippines is regressing into merely care-giving.

A Canon lawyer cleared misinterpretations on a Vatican document which allegedly prohibits homosexuals and effeminates from pursuing priesthood.

According to the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education’s instruction on the admission of candidates with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” to the seminary and to Holy Orders, “The Dicastery cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so called ‘gay culture’”.

A FACULTY of Civil Law sophomore lost her cellphone to a man introduced by her professor as a former student and an employee of the Supreme Court last Jan. 12.

According to Melanie Gannaba, a sophomore law student, her Nokia 3650 was stolen by a certain Samuel Alvarez during her Transportation Law class with Atty. Albert Palacios.

Gannaba said Alvarez entered the class with Palacios. Alvarez, who wanted to sit-in for the duration of the class, sat beside Gannaba who was seated in front near the door of the Main Building’s room 127.

FATHER RECTOR Tamerlane Lana, O.P. reminded the UST community about the true meaning of the word “Thomasian.”

“We do not pride in calling ourselves ‘Thomasians’ for nothing,” he said in a mass honoring St. Thomas Aquinas, the University’s patron saint last Jan. 27 at the UST Chapel. “That name (Thomasian) is ascribed to us because we carry the torch of Thomas—the torch of truth.”

THE PUBLIC Attorneys’s Office (PAO) chief told Thomasians that the legal profession is a service-oriented occupation and not a money-making venture.

Atty. Persida Rueda-Acosta said a lawyer must never discriminate between a better-paying client and a poor client. She explained that it is a lawyer’s duty to always protect the interests of a client to the best of his ability regardless of the latter’s ability to pay

HOUSING more than 40,000 books, the Heritage section at the fifth floor of the Central Library formally opened last Jan. 27.

The Antonio V. del Rosario-UST Heritage Library, which is mainly for graduate students, is open to Thomasian and non-Thomasian researchers interested in browsing books from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

The library contains around 30,000 historical books and 10,000 reference books, all taken from the Rare Books, Spanish and Filipiniana sections, Rare Periodicals and the Medical and Ecclesiastical libraries.

TO BOOST its academic programs, the South Korean Silla University, led by its president, Dr. Hong-sub Jung, and the director of its Office of External Affairs and Development, Dr. Yoon-kyung Kim, signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Rector Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P. and Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Dr. Armando de Jesus last Jan. 10 at the Rector’s Hall. The agreement covers student and professor exchanges as well as research collaborations.

UST ALUMNA and Philippine Daily Inquirer founder Eugenia Duran-Apostol urged budding journalists to focus on the need for an “education revolution” rather than on political issues during the Third Jose Villa Panganiban Professorial Chair for Journalism lecture last Jan. 27 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex auditorium.