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Tatlong mananaliksik ng UST, pasok sa BIARI

TATLONG magkakasunod na taon nang may mananaliksik na mula sa  Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas ang matagumpay na nakapasok sa prestihiyosong Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) upang ilathala ang kani-kanilang  pag-aaral.

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TATLONG magkakasunod na taon nang may mananaliksik na mula sa  Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas ang matagumpay na nakapasok sa prestihiyosong Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) upang ilathala ang kani-kanilang  pag-aaral.

     Sila ay mga researcher associates ng University of Santo Tomas Research Center on Culture, Education, and Social Issues (UST-RCCESI) sa ilalaim ng Youth Cluster na sina Assoc. Prof. Clarence Batan, PhD, na lumahok noong 2012, at ngayo’y kinikilalang alumnus ng BIARI; Asst. Prof. Mark Anthony Abenir, DSD, na lumahok noong 2013 at kinikilala ring alumnus; Asst. Prof. Maria Carinnes Gonzalez, PhD, na kamakailan lamang lumahok.

TATLONG mag     Ayon kay Batan,  ang BIARI ay binubuo ng iba’t ibang research institutes gaya ng Population Development, Theater and Civil Society, Global Health and HIV-AIDs at iba pang mga institusyong maaring mag-iba taun-taon. Ang mga research institutes na ito ay may layong tulungan ang mga bansang “Global South” o developing countries gaya ng Pilipinas.

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     Ang mga mananaliksik ay masusing sinusuri at nililimitahan ang bilang sapagkat napakalaki ng gagastusin upang madala sila sa Brown University kung saan sasagutin nila ang lahat ng gastusin gaya ng air fare, food, at accommodation.

     “To get a funding from BIARI means lahat kayong nandoon nag-cocompete for a funding of about $10,000,” ani Batan. “It’s the academe. It’s an intellectual competition. Di siya tipong gusto mo lang pumunta doon – no.”

     Sa libu-libong nag-aasam na mga mananaliksik, isang milestone na maituturing ang pagkapasok ng mga mananaliksik ng Unibersidad sa BIARI ng tatlong magkakasunod na taon.

     “It’s very exciting. The question now is, To what extent could you expand this opportunity with your colleagues?’ So ngayon, naghahanap kami, sino bang pwede nating ipasok for the fourth year?” ani Batan.

     Ang sinumiteng pag-aaral ni Batan sa BIARI at kanyang binibigyang atensyon sa ngayon ay tungkol sa “Istambay” Phenomenon sa Pilipinas na diumano’y kumukuha ng atensyon sa daigdig dahil sa pagiging kakaiba nito.

     “People around, pag sinabing istambay: “Siya ay deficient, siya ay tamad,” wika ni Batan. “Di siya isyu ng ‘ayoko magtrabaho,’ isa siyang legitimate issue ng kawalan ng trabaho sa Pilipinas.”

    Ayon naman kay Abenir ukol sa kanyang pagsasaliksik sa Understanding Children of Overseas Filipino Workers, “Tingin kasi ng ibang tao, yung kanilang problemang pinagdadaanan ay pampamilya lang pero it has something to do with the structure of the society kung bakit ang daming OFWs sa Pilipinas.”

     Sinaliksik naman ni Gonzales ang estado ng mga taong may HIV sa Pilipinas at kung paano sila nakikisalamuha sa kanilang pamilya at gobyerno.

     “[HIV in the Philippines is getting] worse, more and more people are getting vulnerable to the disease,” sabi ni Gonzalez sa isang hiwalay na panayam.

     Dagdag pa ni Gonzalez, malaki ang naitulong ng Brown sa kanya at sa Unibersidad dahil maipapamahagi niya ang kanyang mga natutunan sa kanyang mga estudyante.

     Maliban sa paglahok bilang fellow ay may ibang oportunidad na binibigay ang BIARI. Matapos lumahok noong 2012, si Batan ay kumuha ng residency sa BIARI kung saan ay nanatili siya sa dito noong 2013 sa loob ng tatlong buwan. Siya ay naging international reviewer sa BIARI Alumni project 2014 kung saan ibinabahagi niya ang kanyang mga kaalaman sa Sociology of the Youth upang mapabuti ang mga pag-aaral.

     Samantalang si Abenir naman ay naging co-lead ng BIARI Alumni Project 2014 kung saan ay dumalo siya sa isang  komperensya sa Bogota, Colombia kasama ang mga kapwa niya fellows noong 2013. Ang kanilang mga pag-aaral ay patungkol sa Children and Youth na may layuning makapag-limbag ng librong rerepresenta sa boses ng Global South.

     Payo naman ng mga mananaliksik sa mga nag-aasam na makapasok sa BIARI at nagnanais maging matagumpay sa Akademya, “Research. Malaki ang nagagawa ng research sa buhay ng  tao. Kung marunong magresearch, tingin ko maraming problema ang masosolve sa mundo,” hikayat ni Batan.

     “Go out. Sometimes people get stuck (to the idea) that the world is within the four walls of this institution,” dagdag ni Abenir.

     “Find a topic that you’re passionate about and make sure it’s relevant,” ani Gonzalez.

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Thomasian innovation bested others in the Metro

A mere escape from summer boredom hailed two Engineering Thomasians victorious in the recent Manila Bay Cleanup competition, launched by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in April.

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     A mere escape from summer boredom hailed two Engineering Thomasians victorious in the recent Manila Bay Cleanup competition, launched by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in April.

     Fourth year Electronics Communication Engineering (ECE) students John Beljoe Abao and Ariel Manalaysay had outclassed seven other competing schools with their giant dustpan-like entry, which, according to them is based on simple logic and imagination, and practically out of the boredom during the vacation.

     “Nung summer walang magawa, and opportunity din naman ‘yon,” Abao said, referring to the contest.

     With the theme “Innovative Engineering Solutions to the Manila Bay Garbage Problem,” the contest encouraged student participants to devise creative contraptions that may eventually be improved and produced by the MMDA.

     “It (the prototype) is V-shaped and it has a hole in the middle where a concrete storage is placed,” Abao said.

     With big waves in the bay, floating debris and trash will be swept into the chute and into the tank, “just merely collecting the trash into the bin.”

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     The Thomasian duo took three days of brainstorming, a day to formulate the concept paper, and only a span of two hours to construct the model. But despite the short amount of time, they were “confident” about their prototype.

     “One down, one down,” Abao said when asked what did they feel when they saw other participants’ prototype. According to the duo, the edge of their prototype compared to others’ was the “feasibility to implement because of its simplicity.”

     The prototype brought to the defense is made up of only cardboard, masking tape, and illustration board while other participants’ proposals were more technical and even made use of mathematical computations.

     The real inspiration behind the innovation, according to Abao, is the fulfillment of seeing his idea being implemented to help improve the Manila Bay.

     “Kuha lang ng kuha. When the opportunity comes, grab without hesitation,” Abao and Manalaysay said, advising the Thomasian community to be ready when opportunity knocks.

     According to an article in Inquirer, Department of Public Works and Highway (DPWH) Assistant Secretary Maria Catalina Cabral said that in choosing the winning design they looked for “innovation and engineering.”

     “The concept is doable. We saw there was potential for this to be built and developed. MMDA and DOST will make more studies to develop and make more improvements on this proposal,” Cabral added in the said article.

     The duo received P25,000 cash prize along with Certificate of Recognition.

     Other participating schools included Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Manuel L. Quezon University and Mapua Institute of Technology.

By Mia Mallari and Romhelyn Benipayo
Photo courtesy of John Beljoe Abao

 

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UP is only PH school in Times Higher Education rankings

UST last appeared in the list in 2008, when it ranked in the top 500 along with La Salle.

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The University of the Philippines was the only Philippine university that made it in this year’s Times Higher Education world university ranking.

 

UP earned a spot in the 800+ bracket after getting a score of 13.5 based from the following indicators: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.

 

The University of Santo Tomas, Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle University did not make the cut.

 

UST last appeared in the list in 2008, when it ranked in the top 500 along with La Salle.

 

United Kingdom’s University of Oxford topped this year’s list.

 

In the 2010 Asian rankings, UST shared the 101st spot with Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and Thailand’s Prince of Songkla University. Meanwhile, Ateneo, UP and La Salle ranked 58th, 78th, and 106th, respectively.

 

Earlier this year, UST and La Salle made it in the 701+ bracket in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university rankings. State-run UP led the Philippine universities after bagging the 374th spot while Ateneo remained in the 501st to 550th bracket.

 

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings was first published in 2004 in collaboration with QS. In 2010, the annual publication partnered with mass media firm Thomson Reuters.

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