Young fi nancial see page 7 Cracking AN INSTITUTIONAL PUBLICATION OF DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - MANILA the Egg VOLUME 31. NO. 1. DECEMBER 2003 see page 4 Three from DLSU-M land on the TOSP inside Three recent graduates marked a milestone in the history of DLSU-Manila as they made it to the 2003 list of Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP), the fi rst time all Lasallian fi nalists copped Math made easy the prestigious award. Tisha Timbang The TOSP is an annual Procter & Gamble Student 3 search for outstanding students Excellence Awards, 2002 who can serve as role models BPI Science Award, and the for the country’s youth. This DLSU Brother Gabriel Connon year’s awarding ceremony Award. was held on September 18 at An honorable mention Malacañang. academic awardee, Sy received Electronics and impressive recognitions in the Communications Engineering Bayer Young Environmental major Joel Panugayan (BS Envoy 2002 Awards and the ECE ’02), Accountancy and 2003 Mayor’s Offi ce of Puerto RP Robots: Applied Economics graduate Princesa Awards. As a student Stephanie Sunshine Sy (AE- leader, she received the 2003 6 Made in La Salle BSA ’02), and Economics and Student Leadership Award. Accountancy alumnus Carlo Licuanan is a magna cum Angelo Licuanan (AB-BSA laude graduate, a topnotcher ’02) were selected from among in the CPA board exam, 30 national fi nalists. commissioner of the National They were judged based on Youth Commission, delegate their academic performance, of the Fourth Ayala Young leadership and/or active Leaders Congress in 2002, participation in extra-curricular and champion of the Financial activities, and community Executives Institute of the awareness and involvement Philippines intercollegiate particularly in the fi elds fi nance competition. Their gift of art of engineering, business, TOSP is a project of the BATANES EXPLORATION. A young Ivatan enlivens the view of an old stone house, typically found at the Chavayan village of Sabtang Island of Batanes. The group of islands, famous for its majestic landscape, prehistoric structures, and peace-loving economics, industry, and RFM Foundation, Commission 5 community, is the site of a recent environmental study by DLSU professors. See related story on page 5. entrepreneurship. on Higher Education, and A summa cum laude RFM Corporation, with graduate, Panugayan is support from National La Salle develops insurance education the over-all awardee of the Bookstore and the Rotary Club Globe Telecom Academic of Makati Central. The Financial Management in Management of Financial on campus. Achievement Awards in 2002, Department of the College Institutions with specialization Part of the donation will and recipient of the 2002 of Business and Economics in Insurance (BSC-MFI-INS); also serve as funding for the (CBE) gets a boost for a ladderized degree in BSC-MFI- grant for Professorial Chairs number of its programs INS, with additional year for that will enable six faculty Filmakers in following the establishment Master of Insurance; Diploma members to conduct research in action of the 2000 Manila East in Insurance; and Master of a variety of insurance topics. 7 Asian Insurance Congress Insurance. The 2000 Manila East Professorial Chairs and The University, through Asian Insurance Congress is Program Development Fund on its Executive Vice President considered to be the largest General Insurance. and Interim President Dr. gathering of insurance Through the assistance Carmelita Quebengco, executives in Asia. This of the 2000 Manila East received a P6 million-check association aims to develop Asian Insurance Congress, donation from the insurance international collaboration in the University is developing organization, represented by its the fi eld of insurance and is LASALLIAN HIGH. Commission on Higher Education Chair and former DLSU President Br. Roly Dizon (center) congratulates the year’s model students from La Salle schools. the programs Bachelor of chairperson, Jose Halili Co, in non-political, non-government, Photo shows, from left, DLS-Lipa’s Concepcion Hernandez and DLSU-M’s Sunshine Sy, Science in Commerce major a ceremony held last May 27 non-religious, and non-profi t. Carlo Licuanan, and Joel Panugayan. Historian donates literary Former CHED chair receives Engineering’s Field-Wise welcomes A recent donation from coordination relevant to the ASEAN members Daniel Boone Schirmer, a donation. honorary degree US-based historian and writer, Professor Schirmer is a Chosen as a host institution of the ASEAN University has added 1,205 volumes of staunch anti-US Bases activist, The DLSU Board of Garcia received the Network/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Trustees and the Lasallian honorary degree during literary books to the University and his book, Republic or Development Network (AUN SEED-Net), DLSU-Manila Library’s extensive collection. Empire: American Resistance academic community conferred the 138th Commencement recently opened its Chemical Engineering graduate program on Dr. Ester Garcia, former Exercises of DLSU-Manila last The book collection, which to the Philippine War, is to ASEAN scholars with a seminar called Field-Wise. were shipped and delivered regarded as the most complete chair and commissioner of September 27 at the Philippine The seminar, offered to graduate students of AUN/ the Commission on Higher International Convention to the University on June 30, history material on the Anti- SEED-Net’s member institutions (MIs), is considered as is estimated to be worth more Imperialist Movement. Education (CHED), the Center. the main vehicle in which MIs could utilize the resources degree Doctor of Laws, Garcia holds a doctorate than P2.5 million. It includes Present during the formal provided by the funding organization, the Japan International rare and out of print literary turnover ceremonies were Dr. honoris causa, for her being in Chemistry from Ohio Cooperation Agency (JICA). an accomplished educator and State University. She is a classics written or translated in Allan Bernardo, vice president Through the seminar, the MIs worked together to English. for Academics and Research, school administrator as well professor and former chair of enhance Chemical Engineering education and research as an outstanding government the Board of Regents of the The donation was made Agnes Yuhico, assistant through courseware development on Information Technology possible through the efforts of vice president for Academic offi cial. seeUniversity Former, page of the 3 Philippines (IT). They also discussed the development of courseware John Silva, a senior consultant Services, Perla Garcia, materials related to Environmental Engineering Education, as of the National Museum University Library director, well as the Network’s other plans for collaborative research. and an alumnus of La Salle and Silva, representative of In September, the University served seven students under Green Hills. Silva, who is a Professor Schirmer. the graduate study program: Long The Nam Doan, Cam Linh friend and a former student Phan, and Phuong Thi Thung Pham (Ho Chi Minh University of the donor, facilitated all of Technology); Chau Van Dinh and Son Van Dang (Hanoi University of Technology); Anton Purnomo (Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, Indonesia); and Rithy Chann (Institute of Technology of Cambodia). The AUN/SEED-Net graduate program is under the direction of the Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Julius Maridable, the director of the Graduate School of Engineering, Dr. Pag-asa Gaspillo, and the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Leonila Abella. THE FUTURE BEGINS HERE.TM WWW.DLSU.EDU.PH 2 DECEMBER 2003 About this issue The Power of the Human Setting the groundwork for excellence in higher (Excerpts from the speech delivered by Josette Biyo, an alumna of the graduate school of DLSU-Manila’s College of Science, during a education, La Salle promotes pioneering initiatives forum by San Miguel business executives at the Shangri-la Hotel, EDSA on October 24, 2003) in various fi elds of study. With vision and creativity, The human spirit has no Rural Health and Science seas of Batangas, the rivers of I introduced innovations and passion, and hard work, students and faculty members limits. If you dream big, and strategies for teaching continue to strengthen the University’s research you have the determination and the course. culture. Whether creating robots, preserving the environment, the will to pursue your dream, These innovations you will make it a reality. I included: a) building recovering lost art, or improving pedagogy, Lasallians prove there is dreamt of making stars; I was a scientifi c library, much to live for and look forward to in our country. given a planet. b) conducting fi eld A few months ago, I was studies, c) establishing featured in the local, national linkages with research and international newspapers. institutions in the I caused a stir to be the fi rst country, d) holding Lasallian trustees in RP Asian teacher to win the science forums in “Intel Excellence in Teaching school, and e) teaching Award” in an international students laboratory competition held in the U.S. and fi eld techniques Since its inception in 1997, no that would help them Asian teacher has received this in their research work. award. But I think what created I went to waves was, I am a Filipino, and Kentucky with three I defeated 4,000 other teachers high school students from around the world, from the Manila including the American fi nalists Science High School, in their hometown. Because and one student of this, the Massachusetts from the Mindanao Institute of Technology Lincoln State University- Laboratory in Boston named Iligan Institute of a minor planet in my honor. Education Committee. I Rizal, and the lahar-affected Technology. They competed in There is now a Planet Biyo designed outreach programs for areas of Pampanga to conduct the International Science and located between Mars and students and teachers. Through fi eld studies. Engineering Fair participated in By Reby Gaw Jupiter, rotating around the sun.