The 1340th meeting of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) on 03 December 2018 was a very significant event for UP’s Research, Extension, and Professional Staff (REPS) sector.
For the first time in its history, the top two seats of the UPLB Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension (OVCRE) are occupied by full-time researchers.
In 2019, the Philippines recorded the first occurrences of Fall Armyworm and African Swine Fever – an insect pest and an animal disease that wiped out some of the country’s maize crops and swine population.
Have you ever wondered how many research projects in UPLB are on coconuts? Have you ever thought how many projects have been produced as publications or implemented as extension activities?
Getting your research published in reputable journals can be challenging, especially for early career researchers. It can be a long road ahead, but it is not an impossible task. Here are eight useful tips to increase your chances of getting in and out of the publication pipeline, as discussed by Cavite State University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Dean Melbourne R. Talactac during a webinar.
Modern jargons like ‘robotics,’ ‘drones,’ ‘bioinformatics,’ or ‘computational research’ are normally associated with floor-to-ceiling computers, advanced optical wirings, boards of complicated mathematical equations, and vast containers of servers. When hearing these, the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) hardly comes to mind.
Conducting research requires time, resources, and perseverance. But in the end, the search for grant or funding opportunities, laboratory experiments, literature reviews, and writing reports and journal article off-shoots, the meetings in between may all be worth it since your output would have public use. You find rest and peace of mind knowing that you have a meaningful contribution to knowledge and social action.
That is, if no one passes off your work as theirs.
We live in an interesting era wherein we are on the cusp of the third and fourth industrial revolution. This revolution, dubbed as Industry 4.0, is characterized by the confluence of physical systems and information systems through sensors and actuators that enable the creation of smart products, and smart machines that can learn and improve their processes on their own. Also, current developments are influencing the shift of industrial economies to knowledge economies driven by technologies that are based on the production and dissemination of information and knowledge (Powell and Snellman, 2004)1.
It has been five years since the concept of UPLB Interdisciplinary Studies Centers (IdSCs) were presented during ExSciTe, UPLB’s S&T Forum and Exhibit, at the SMX Convention Center.
When we were kids, we all learned about the scientific method. Our grade school science teachers did not rest until we have memorized the steps in order: make an observation, ask a question, formulate a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, analyze the results, and finally, accept or reject the hypothesis.
In a rapidly changing world, new data will always come in handy. Such is an important matter for a country like the Philippines which has overwhelmingly rich natural resources but is often troubled with overpopulation, wrong urban planning, and natural hazards that disrupt the environment and leave the people vulnerable.
Resilience. It is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties or challenges. It’s another moniker for toughness, and Filipinos are known all over the world for that trait.
