Tag: No. 7

UST IS now one step closer to fulfilling its dream of digitally preserving the Philippines’ rich plant biodiversity.

Grecebio Jonathan Alejandro, director of the Graduate Studies, and his team is about to release an online database documenting various plant species found in the country this year.

The project, named the “DNA Barcoding for Authentication of Philippine Medicinal Plants,” is a four-year project that aims to create an online database and a medicinal guidebook for flora found in the Philippines with the help of DNA barcoding.

BECAUSE evolution requires “the creation of things that evolve,” its nature is consistent with the notion of creation, the Supreme Pontiff last October said in the gathering of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican.

In his second book, “The Science of God: Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom,” physicist Gerald Lawrence Schroeder attempts to reconcile the age of the universe and the Bible’s Book of Genesis, which earned the fascination of some and the ire of others.

The second in the author's series of books that reinterprets the Bible, The Science of God attempts to link the “six days” of Creation in Genesis with our 14 billion-year-old universe using various scientific and religious principles.

FROM South Beach to Flexitarian diet, people go through different lengths and try every sort of routine just to lose excess pounds. Even if dieticians do not recommend most of these diets, some can’t help but be drawn to the promise of a fit body. One example of these is the Blood Type Diet (BTD).

LUST, REVENGE, and struggle for power are an explosive combination in Tanghalang Pilipino’s 28th season closer “Juego De Peligro,” staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Feb. 20 to March 8.

The play is a Filipino stage adaptation of French writer Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ novel “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” and its 1988 film adaptation, “Dangerous Liasons,” directed by Stephen Frears and starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich.

Written by UST Journalism alumnus Elmer Gatchalian, “Juego de Peligro” is set in 19th century Intramuros, in contrast with the original novel that is set in pre-revolution France.

BRINGING art mavens and enthusiasts in an unconventional space, the third Art Fair Philippines showcased some of Philippine contemporary art’s finest last Feb. 5 to 8 by transforming The Link’s parking lot at Ayala Center in Makati into an art mecca.

More than 30 galleries from here and abroad participated.

An Advertising Arts graduate of the College of Fine Arts and Design (CFAD), Derek Tumala was The Drawing Room’s main feature as it displayed his “Sacred Geometry,” a video-mapping installation on sculpture.

Sacred geometry is a concept that goes back to 16th century Europe when scientists believed that nature followed geometric patterns.

COLLEGE of Fine Arts and Design professor Noli Vicedo paid tribute to his childhood past in an art exhibit at the ancient St. Joseph’s Church in Las Pinas City where he once sang as a child chorister and member of the Las Pinas Boys Choir accompanied by the world-famous Bamboo Organ.

“An Artist’s Tribute to the Bamboo Organ,” which ran Feb. 19 to 27 at the Bamboo Organ Museum, was a side show to the 40th International Bamboo Organ Festival. It consisted of 10 paintings showing romantic evocations of Las Pinas Church and the international music festival built around its celebrated bamboo organ, the only one of its kind in the world.

THE LIBERATION of Manila 70 years ago was relived and immortalized through art during the UST annual inter-school on-the-spot painting competition last Feb. 7.

The Battle of Manila that led to the city’s emancipation amid World War II took place from Feb. 3 to March 3, 1945, and left around 100,000 civilian casualties. The University served as an internment camp of the Japanese at that time.

A total of 219 delegates from 15 universities and colleges in Metro Manila participated in this year’s contest themed “Memories of Valor, Dreams of Peace: The 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Philippines” held at the Benavides Garden. UST partnered with the United States Embassy and Metrobank Foundation to sponsor the event.

ISANG PATUNAY ang pagiging patok ng online writing community na Wattpad sa patuloy na paghahanap ng paraan ng mga makabagong manunulat na makipag-ugnayan sa mga mambabasa at mailahad ang kanilang kaalaman.

Noong 2011, kinilala ang Wattpad bilang “Hottest Digital Media Company” sa Canadian Innovation Exchange, isang kumpanya na naglilista ng mga patok na website, dahil sa patuloy na paglawak at paglaki ng sakop ng mga nagsusulat at nagbabasa rito.

‘Di kalaunan, nakarating ang kasikatan ng Wattpad sa mga Filipinong mambabasa na nagdulot ng paglilimbag at pagsasapelikula ng mga akda rito tulad ng “Diary ng Panget,” “She’s Dating the Gangster” at “Talk Back and You’re Dead.”

ANG PAGTATAPOS sa pag-aaral ay pagtungtong sa panibagong yugto ng buhay, kaya naman likas na sa mga Tomasino ang pagsasagawa ng iba’t-ibang rituwal ng pagtatapos na tumatak sa puso ng bawat mag-aaral at kasaysayan ng Unibersidad.

Bago pa man ang kasalukuyang ritwal na paglabas sa Arch of the Centuries sa tuwing Baccalaureate Mass, nagsimula na noon pa lamang ika-17 siglo ang mga tradisyon ng kakaibang paraan ng paggawad ng karangalan sa mga nagsisipagtapos.

Isa na rito ang paggawad pagpaparada sa mga gagawaran ng doctorate degree na tinawag na paseo de los doctores.