Lit Prof Launches New Poetry Book in Sydney
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FACTS and FIGURES Lit prof launches new poetry book in Sydney Literature professor and award-winning poet Dinah Roma recently reading my poems on Radio National Australia, I was also very glad released her third book of poetry. Published by the Sydney- and to have met the Filipino community in Sydney. Many responded Tokyo-based Vagabond Press as part of its new Asia Pacific Series, deeply to my Haiyan poem and, I guess, these connections are Naming the Ruins was launched at Gleebooks in Sydney on May what really matter after all.” THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF 17. The now Australia-based Bicolana writer Merlinda Bobis, who NUMBER VOLUME 4603 launched the book, had these words to describe it: “The poet is a For Roma, the SWF was an immense learning DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY 07JULY2014 word shaman....Each poem astounds...with such tenderness, such experience. “It was a grace.” privilege to have been able to Roma also participated in two Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) represent not events, namely, the Asian Contemporary Poetry Reading Marathon only DLSU but and a panel discussion Open Words and Worlds. the country. And I’m glad According to the Australian publisher Michael Brennan, “With the that DLSU Asia Pacific series, I’m trying to create a space that will be open and acknowledges expansive. We’ve done six three-poet collections so far, along with the importance Dinah Roma’s magnificent Naming the Ruins, and it’s a very exciting of supporting start to what I hope will grow rapidly to be a series where people our writers around the world can gain access to a broad and inclusive range of and artists contemporary work from Asia Pacific.” in having our voices heard Asked about the highlights of her participation at the SWF, Roma elsewhere.” said that “aside from listening to Pulitzer Prize-winning Alice Walker (whom I’ve read as a university student), meeting other writers, and Best Paper Awards for top Engineering researchers INSIDE: Two award-winning members of the Gokongwei College Tan, for the paper “A methodology for augmenting sparse Lit prof launches new of Engineering once again received recognition for their pairwise comparison matrices in AHP: Applications to energy poetry book in Sydney DLSU Professor Emeritus Cirilo Bautista outstanding papers in their respective fields. systems” published in the ISI-indexed Springer Journal Clean Technologies and named as National Artist for Literature Associate professor of the Chemical Engineering Department Environmental Policy. Best Paper Awards for top Dr. Michael Angelo Promentilla received the 2014 Outstanding This paper was one Engineering researchers Scientific Paper along with coauthors Dr. Takafumi Sugiyama of five recipients and Ivan Sandi Darma of Hokkaido University, Japan for the selected to receive Microhydro plant paper entitled “Application of X-ray CT to study diffusivity in the national award, lights up Apayao barangay cracked concrete through the observation of tracer transport” out of over 80 published in the ISI-indexed Journal of Advanced Concrete entries submitted The Museum’s new exhibit Technology. to CHED. Source: DLSU official publications showcases patterns in art The award is given every year by the Japan Concrete Institute (JCI) to best papers published by the organization in recognition Cirilo F. Bautista is author of books on poetry, fiction, and essays that have won many literary awards. of their significant contribution to the advancement of concrete University Fellow and Professor Emeritus Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista was declared National science and engineering. is published bi-weekly by the Office for Strategic Communications (AH-21F, intercom 144). Editorial deadline is 3 p.m. Tuesdays. Contributions should include the name, office and signature of the sender. Materials may be edited for clarity or space. Artist for Literature by President Benigno S. Aquino III last June 20 by virtue of 2401 may be accessed online through the URL: http://www.dlsu.edu.ph. 2401 (twen´te fôr´,o, wun) is a landmark number along Proclamation No. 809. Promentilla also received the Commission on Higher Education’s Taft Avenue. It is the location ID of De La Salle University, home to outstanding faculty and students, and birthplace 2014 REPUBLICA Award with his coauthor, DLSU Vice Executive Director | Ayi Magpayo Writers | Anne Alina-Acuña, AA dela Cruz-Marcelo, Creative Director | Peter Varona of luminaries in business, public service, education, the He is joined by other new National Artists Alice Reyes for Dance; Francisco V. Coching Chancellor for Research and Innovation Dr. Raymond Girard Director for Operations | Johannes Leo Badillo Arfie Koc, Donna Manio, Roy Monarch Sy Art Director | Ave Gaile Peraz arts, and science. And 2401 is the name of the official Editorial Supervisor | Ruby Carlos Editorial Support | Alaric Lopez de Leon Graphic Artists | Mark Louie Esteves, Miguel Pabello, Chris Perez newsletter of DLSU, featuring developments and stories (posthumous) for Visual Arts; Francisco F. Feliciano and Ramon Santos for Music; ([email protected]) Multimedia Coordinator | Magsy Magbanua Secretary | Virginia Umacob-Gases of interest about the University. Student Assistant (Photographer) | Alecs Ongcal Office Assistant | Raymond Menor Promentilla and Tan see page 3 2 La Salle faculty dominate PHL’s industrial ecology research output Culaba An article on social network analysis recently published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology (ISI Aviso with IF 2.276) showed that DLSU professors are the major contributors to industrial research in the Philippines. Tan Chiu The authors in the Philippines category mentioned in the article are Dr. Kathleen Aviso, Green Education Workshops in Visayas and Mindanao Dr. Anthony S.F. Chiu, Dr. Alvin Culaba, and Dr. Raymond Tan. DLSU faculty members led key persons from the education and The series’ two-fold aim was to encourage the core courses of environment sector in a series of seminars around the country to the New General Education Curriculum (CMO No. 20-s2013) to re- According to the article, China, Japan, and the promote interdisciplinary approaches to nature and the environment examine students’ vital connections to people, cultures, and places Philippines have strong contributions to the and discuss strategies on the conduct of environmental beyond the walls of the school; and to transform the learners of research of industrial symbiosis. engagement in the classrooms of higher education institutions. today into critical mass and innovative forces that work together towards a green, productive, and sustainable future. The DLSU researchers have been working in The Museum’s new exhibit showcases patterns in art Towards a Green Education in the Philippines: Workshops on this field since 1998 when the field Industrial Teaching the Environment and Climate Change Impacts in the This project was organized bythe Office of the Associate Vice Ecology was at its introductory stage. The New General Education Curriculum was held last June 20-21 at Chancellor for Faculty Resources and Development, the Bienvenido The Museum at De La Salle University presents its first major show detailed parts and the totality of work. The exhibit also shows how, various engineering departments have graduated La Salle University (LSU), in Ozamiz City and on June 27 -28 at the N. Santos Creative Writing Center, and the Behavioral Sciences for Academic Year 2014-2015, Patterns: In Layers of Meaning. The side by side, various work on the same subject by different artists Ph.D. students in the field of industrial ecology University of San Agustin (USA), in Iloilo City. The Metro Manila leg Department, and sponsored by the United Board for Christian exhibit showcases works of art featuring various forms and elements can form a coherent pattern. with specialization in life cycle analysis, industrial took place last October 24-26, 2013 at DLSU. Higher Education in Asia and the DLSU College of Liberal Arts of patterns—through shapes and colors, in geometric, decorative, or symbiosis, material flow analysis, and economic Network of coauthorship and countries of author’s affiliations. Office of the Dean. figurative forms. Featured artworks are from the Wili and Doreen Fernandez and input-output. University Art Collections, with additional loaned work by selected The exhibition explores how artists incorporate patterns in their Filipino artists. The exhibit runs until August 22. works to express meaning, movement, and action. It also shows Decoding and Manipulating Genome Regulation how patterns in art can create a strong visual interest, as seen in the for Regenerative Biomedicine Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) principal investigator Dr. Ralf Jauch National Artist for Literature, from page 1 recently delivered a lecture on campus entitled “Decoding and Manipulating Genome and Jose Maria V. Zaragoza (posthumous) for Micro hydro plant lights up Apayao barangay Regulation for Regenerative Biomedicine“ last June 30. Architecture. De La Salle University, together with SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP), recently Jauch detailed current research on the molecular processes that govern turned over the Pico Hydro Power Plant to the local government of Recognizing Bautista’s works and achievements the reprogramming of cells, such as the conversion of a urine-derived Barangay Parina in Apayao. as a poet, fictionist, and essayist, Malacanang cell into a brain cell. These converted cells can then be used to model noted that he has “greatly contributed to the human diseases leading towards generation of tissues or whole organs for NAST Academician and DLSU University Fellow Dr. Alvin Culaba, as the development of the country’s literary arts and transplantation medicine. project leader of the micro hydro power plant, formally turned over the strengthened the Filipino’s sense of nationalism.” Alumni raise funds plant to Calanasan Mayor Elias Bulut together with barangay officials and Jauch focused on transcriptional networks leading to cell fate decisions, the development residents. Bautista earned his Doctor of Arts in Language of drugs that directly target DNA binding domains of TF proteins, and highlighted the for St.