Tag: June 23, 2006

IMAGINE yourself at the summit of Mt. Everest, riding beside an international motorsports superstar, or coming face to face with sharks. With the state-of-the-art Image Maximum (IMAX) technology now available in the Philippines, all of these adventures are only a movie ticket away.

IMAX is the latest in motion-picture technology, using the most sophisticated movie screen, projector, camera, film, and speakers in theaters today that give you the feel of the real from the reel.

THE UNIVERSITY is eyeing school development collaborations with three leading academic institutions in China so as to improve its Level 2 citation from the Philippine Quality Awards (PQA), the highest award for exemplary organizational performance in the country.

UST sent six members of its PQA committee to China last May 19. They visited Tsing Hua University (THU), the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), and its Beijing Center for Language and Culture (BCLC).

EVEN teachers need a lesson or two on healthy lifestyle.

The Department of Sports Sciences of the College of Rehabilitation Sciences (CRS) is now offering aerobics classes and other fitness programs, like weightlifting and tai chi, to teachers and non-academic personnel in the Sports Science laboratory (Sports Lab) at the Medicine Bldg.

CITY hall has closed several dormitories in the University belt for safety hazards such as lack of fire exits and fire extinguishers. Eight of them are around UST.

City Administrator Dino Nable ordered the suspension of the permits of 12 dormitories for failing to comply with the safety requirements in two months. The suspension was recommended by City Hall’s Committee on Dormitories.

THE THOMASIAN Film Circle (TFC), a college-based organization of film enthusiasts, is now recognized as a University-wide organization by the Office for Student Affairs.

The recognition was granted during the 31st Student Organization’s Coordinating Council Leadership Training Seminar last May 24-26 at Villa Lorenza Resort in Pililla, Rizal. Formal recognition rites are scheduled by July or September.

FOLLOWING its separation from the College of Education, the newly-formed Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management (ITHM) has fashioned a new curriculum to provide better focus on its Tourism and Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM) programs.

“Now, the Tourism and HRM programs would have a clear and defined system of improvement through the revised curriculum,” said Maria Cecilia Tio Cuison, director of the new Institute. “This will give us leeway to develop ourselves not only for the academe but also for the industry.”

THE EXODUS of Filipino nurses to “promise lands” will drain the country’s health-care manpower.

College of Nursing Dean Glenda Vargas expressed this concern in her discurso de apertura, the annual lecture that formally opens a new school year, last June 14 at the UST chapel. Vargas said that if the government would not create measures to prevent nurses from leaving, the country would inevitably suffer.

UST topped the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensure examinations in the 51-99 category last month, but its passing rate declined

In the category of schools with 51-99 examinees, UST emerged on top with a passing rate of 48 per cent. It was followed by Ateneo de Naga with 35 per cent,

Thomasian Frances Amog, who graduated from the Commerce and Accountancy in 2004, posted an 84.14 per cent average and placed eighth.

A GRADUATE school student, a College of Science senior, and a Faculty of Arts and Letters senior lead the Varsitarian staff for the school year 2006-07.

Nicolo Bernardo, a former Science and Technology (Sci-Tech) and concurrent Witness editor who is taking up his Master’s degree in Philosophy at the UST Graduate School, has been appointed as the new editor in chief.

HOW MEDICAL education has coped with medical technology is charted by the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery’s Department of Medical Education’s Medical Education in Evolution, an exhibit portraying the development of medical instruction in UST.

“We are showing through the exhibit the transition of medical education in the University as it progressed through the years,” ME chair Roy Cuison said.The exhibit displays the department’s collections of old modules used by former medical teachers and compilations of past Medicine curricula.