26-November-2007 SEARCA GSD News Release
Eight faculty of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) were awarded the SEARCA Professorial Chair for Academic Year 2007-2008.
The awardees, their affiliation, and the titles of their seminars are:
- Dr. Christian Joseph R. Cumagun, Crop Protection Cluster, College of Agriculture, “Managing Plant Diseases and Promoting Sustainability and Productivity with Trichoderma;”
- Dr. Flordeliza A. Lantican and Dr. Corazon L. Rapera, both of the Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Economics and Management. The lecture topic of Dr. Lantican is “The Philippine Banana Industry: Market Performance, Constraints, and Policy Directions,” while that of Dr. Rapera is “Environmental and Economic Sustainability Implications of the Major Trends in the Material Flow Accounts of the Philippines, 1981 to 2006;”
- Dr. Inocencio Buot, Jr. and Dr. Maribel Dionisio-Sese, both of the Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). The seminar of Dr. Buot is titled “Assessment of Vascular Plant Diversity: Its Role in Understanding the State of Philippine Mountain Ecosystems,” while Dr. Dionisio-Sese will lecture on “Sustaining Rice Agriculture through Physiological Profiling of Rice Cultivars for Salt Tolerance;”
- Dr. Corazon B. Lamug, Department of Social Sciences, CAS, “A Critique of the Social Research Designs of Studies on Community-based Natural Resources Management;”
- Engr. Rex B. Demafelis, College of Engineering and Agro-industrial Technology, “Waste Management in Emerging Philippine Biofuel Industry;” and
- Dr. Serlie B. Jamias, College of Development Communication, “Communication for Behavior Change: Lessons Learned from Development Communication Research in Agriculture, Environment, Biotechnology, and Emerging Fields.”
The eight new awards bring to 230 the total number of SEARCA professorial chairs awarded to UPLB faculty.
Since 1974, SEARCA has awarded a total of 230 professorial chairs to UPLB faculty, 84 of which were granted under the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources. (LLDDomingo, GSD)
