UPLB to hold Science & Techology Forum and Exhibit

The University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) will hold a Science and Technology Forum and Exhibit on March 4-5 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, Metro Manila. The event, with the theme “making Science Work for Sustainable Development” aims to uphold and promote science and technology in the country as well as to showcase some of UPLB’s most innovative and cutting edge technologies.

Expected to attend are Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Jesus P. Paje; Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala;  Science and Technology Secretary Mario G. Montejo; Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla;  Budget and Management Secretary Florencio B. Abad; Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan; and Senator Pia S. Cayetano.  

Among the UP System constituent universities, UPLB is considered as the preeminent research institution due to the sheer number and diversity of various technologies it has developed as well as being home to some of the brightest scientific minds in the fields of natural sciences, agriculture, forestry, engineering and  environment, among others.  

Aside from the research outputs and technologies that UPLB has produced, the exhibit will also present 18 new and existing interdisciplinary studies centers thatfocus on the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge on important areas in which the country is facing challenges and problems.These are:

1) Biofuels Research Studies Center/Rural Economic Development Renewable Energy Program;  

2) Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Studies Center;  

3) Food and Nutrition Security and Safety Studies Center;  

4) Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Center; 

5) Agribusiness Center for Entrepreneurship; 

6) Bee Program; 

7) Computational Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories;  

8) Industrial Tree Plantation Center;  

9) Instrumentation Development Center; 

10) Nanotechnology Program; 

11) Natural Products Interdisciplinary Studies Center; 

12) National Organic Agriculture Research Development and Extension Center;  

13) Philippine Center for Tropical Forest Science; 

14) Rice Program; 

15) Southern Luzon Studies Center; 

16) University Pulse; 

17) Agricultural Mechanization Development Program and;

18) Agricultural Machinery Testing and Evaluation Center.

The forum and exhibit will also serve as a prelude to the UPLB’s 105th Foundation Day on March 6 and a venue to recognize the University’s most outstanding personnel for 2014.

For queries, you may contact:

DR. MARIA VICTORIA O. ESPALDON

Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension

Tel: (049)536-2354; (049)536-5326

Email: idsc.uplb@gmail.com

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