Tag: September 9, 2005

UST’S PUBLIC Affairs and Alumni Office (PAAO) is tasked to manage both internal and external affairs—from image-making to alumni relations, to job placement for graduates.

However, with a “gargantuan” number of alumni unaccounted for and about 5,000 more added every year, and as the countdown towards Vision 2011 continues to tick, the task of PAAO to manage two important University affairs seems too burdensome.

THE “pill” has been contracepted yet again.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), has declared the most commonly prescribed oral contraceptive (OC) carcinogenic.

In a press release last July 29, the IARC classified OC’s containing combined estrogen-progestogen under Group 1, the highest classification of carcinogenicity, along with exposure to solar radiation and cadmium.

MATCHING the fingerprints of suspects has recently become a key source of evidence in criminal cases. And being part of forensic science, which studies, analyzes, and identifies facts from collected evidences, fingerprint matching is now being recognized as a modern and critical ingredient in the search for justice.

GAMIT ang molekular na datos, ipinakita ng isang mananaliksik ang mga katangian ng isang di-pangkaraniwang halaman sa isang seminar sa Thomas Aquinas Research Complex noong Agosto 30.

Sa “Pandaigdigang Pagkakaiba ng Mussaenda (Mussaendeae: Rubiaceae) hango sa Pananaliksik ng ITS at trnT-F ‘sequence data’”, ipinakita ni Dr. Grecebio Jonathan Alejandro ng Department of Biological Sciences sa College of Science na nagmula sa Africa ang Mussaenda, isang tropical na halamang namumulaklak na pinag-aralan niya sa iba’t ibang unibersidad sa Germany.

In 1999, Cebu City Judge Martin Ocampo was found dead inside his hotel suite in Lapu Lapu City. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said Ocampo committed suicide by shooting himself, but forensic tests made by Prof. Jerome Bailen of the University of the Philippines (UP) suggested that the victim was “beaten to death.”

GOODWILL between people is the key to making globalization successful.

This was the message stressed in the International Student Symposium 2005 of the Singapore International Foundation, last Aug. 3 to 6 at the Grand Compton Waterfront Hotel in Singapore.

Kevin Relopez, the UST delegate and Thomasian Debaters’ Council president, said his participation in the symposium provided an opportunity for the University to network and interact with other Southeast Asian universities.

FACULTY of Civil Law (Civil Law) students no longer have to compete for more computer time, thanks to new computers donated by Equitable Computer Services, Inc. (Equicom.)

Equicom donated 10 new computers; seven to the Civil Law section of the Central Library, and three to the Civil Law Dean’s office during a simple turnover ceremony last Aug. 19 at the Central Library Conference Hall.

Equicom chair Antonio Go and Equicom president Tony Conway headed the company’s delegation.

A SEASONED lawyer and pious Thomasian has passed away last Aug. 19 at the age of 80.

An Outstanding Thomasian Alumnus Award honoree in 2004, Atty. Roman Mabanta Jr. was commended for his excellent performance in the legal profession and in the academe.

“He (Mabanta) was an epitome of the real Catholic lawyer,” said former Faculty of Civil Law Dean Amado Dimayuga. “He is a great loss to the legal profession.”

AFTER 50 years of service to the University, former Faculty of Civil Law (Civil Law) Dean Amado Dimayuga continues to teach and helps produce lawyers with “strong moral fiber.”

According to Dimayuga, this year’s lone recipient of the 7th Dangal ng UST Awards Gawad Benavides for 50 years of service, his desire to impart the knowledge he has acquired and his love for teaching keeps him going.

The University will soon teach courses—on a bus.

The first itinerant school of the University, the Technical Occupational Mobile Auxiliary School (TOMAS) Bus is expected to hit the streets in 2011, on a mission to bring technical knowledge to the different parts of the country.

One of the flagship projects the Community Development Cluster of the Centennial Committee launched for UST’s quadricentennial, the TOMAS Bus hopes to reach far-flung municipalities where residents do not have access to education.