November 2022

UST Passing Rate: 91.83%

National Passing Rate: 62.43%

Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination

October 2022

UST Passing Rate: 63.90%
National Passing Rate: 25.84%

Physician Licensure Examination

October 2022

UST Passing Rate: 90.43%

National Passing Rate:

Kim Zapatos Sia 4th – 87.67%

Nutritionist-Dietitian Licensure Examination

October 2022

UST Passing Rate: 97.87%
National Passing Rate: 64.54%

Chemist Licensure Examination

October 2022

UST Passing Rate: 48.53%
National Passing Rate: 38.85%

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“Listen to the Voice of Creation (Makinig sa Tinig ng Sangnilikha)” is the theme for this year’s celebration of the Season of Creation (Panahon ng Paglikha). As defined by the Season of Creation Organization, it “is the annual Christian celebration to listen and respond together to the cry of Creation: the ecumenical family around the world unites to pray and protect our common home, the Oikos of God.” It was in 2015 when Pope Francis first declared September 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, as the start of the Season of Creation. This year, the Season ended on October 4 which coincides with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and environment.
Rev. Fr. Victor Calvo, O.P., the Promoter for Justice and Peace for the Province and for the Asia Pacific, delivered the opening remarks.
During the talk, Rev. Fr. Cris Pine, O.F.M., highlighted the worsening condition of the environment, which is validated by the report of scientists from the World Meteorological Organization and the various natural hazards currently experienced in different parts of the world. As Earth’s keepers, humans should be caretaking for nature and respecting the symbiotic relationship because it is God’s instrument of salvation. He ended his talk with a quote from Pope Francis, “Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.”
Furthermore, representatives from the Save Sierra Madre Network Alliance, Inc., stressed the importance of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range to them as Agta-Dumagat-Remontado. Their discussion tackled the adverse effects of the construction of Kaliwa Dam. Negative effects in biodiversity will critically affect the communal and sacred ancestral lands, as well as migratory fish. It could also weaken the protective barrier of Luzon against tropical cyclones, just to name a few.
Ms. Joan Castor of NSTP (CWTS/LTS), as the third speaker, presented their initiative with NSTP students and FCCAI. The students were engaged in planting trees, formulating organic pesticides and fertilizers, and urban gardening. These showed that even simple acts have a long-term impact on the environment.
Aside from the talks, BA Sociology student Ms. Joan Evangelista, College of Science faculty member Mr. Elfritzson M. Peralta, and the Center for Campus Ministry Director Assoc. Prof. Ma. Sanita A. Quilatan, Ph.D., shared their reactions and personal endeavors to commit to a more eco-friendly lifestyle. This was followed by the invitation of AlerTomas Cluster Head Asst. Prof. Juliano S. Pereña, Jr. and Mr. John Din of the Laudato Si’ Movement Pilipinas for their separate upcoming activities.

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Various pieces of assistive equipment for PWDs were purchased and distributed onsite by Dr. Robert Montaña, community development coordinator of the UST Graduate School, in coordination with PDAO and barangay officials.

This activity is in accord with the service-learning component of GG-CSR and the community development commitments of the UST Graduate School. Further coordination and dialogue with the Municipal Mayor of Boac Hon. Armi DC. Carrion were also made to formalize the inclusion of the PWDs and farmers of the municipality as a community development program beneficiary of UST Graduate School through a forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding.

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This activity served as the biannual Community Service Day of SIMBAHAYAN and was held in coordination with the Office of the Vice-Rector for Religious Affairs, National Service Training Program (NSTP), Human Resource Department (HRD), UST Alumni Association Inc. (UST AAI), and Thomasian Employees’ Credit Cooperative (ThomECC).

SIMBAHAYAN Director Asst. Prof. Froilan A. Alipao highlighted in his opening remarks that tree planting is comparable to building a statue of charity, heroism, and piety because it is a manifestation of the contributions to Mother Earth. He also emphasized the interconnectedness of the environment and the indigenous people, as well as the connection of the environment to development.

Before the actual planting, an orientation of the program was given by the SIMBAHAYAN Assistant Director Assoc. Prof. Evalyn B. Abiog, Ph.D. It was followed by an overview of the community and a demonstration of the proper method of planting seedlings, given by the NSTP Facilitator Christian Joseph J. Revil and the President of Samahan ng Manggugulay sa Sto. Niño, Inc. Mr. Bino Rellama.

Ms. Emily Rellama and Mr. Jerome Magana also served as guides in navigating the tree-planting site.
This event is part of the series of activities conducted by the UST SIMBAHAYAN for the celebration of the Season of Creation 2022 with the theme, “Listen to the Voice of Creation.” The participants were from the Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Health Service, HRD, NSTP, ThomECC, UST AAI, Tomasino Innovation Center, Educational Technology Center, Miguel de Benavides Library, Faculty of Arts and Letters, College of Fine Arts and Design, Senior High School, College of Commerce and Business Administration, UST AMV-College of Accountancy, College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, College of Information and Computing Sciences, Graduate School, Institute of Physical Education and Athletics, Institute of Religion, College of Nursing, College of Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, and Holy Family Social and Education Center-Religious of Mary Immaculate.

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            In his welcome remarks, Prof. Alejandro emphasized that OGR sponsors seminars/webinars for graduate students to widen their perspective on the research process and increase research outputs through journal publications as this is an important thrust that OGR hopes to strengthen.  The webinar was offered to help students understand the dynamics and importance of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of the Clarivate Analytics. Prof. Alejandro also highlighted that the research work must not only be published in journals with high impact factors, but must also be categorized under Quartiles 1 or 2 rank set by the Journal Citation Reports (or JCR) of the Clarivate Analytics to promote quality in academic publications. The JCR is also the basis for the “Best Published Paper” awarded each academic year to 4 different clusters.

GS Science cluster faculty member Prof. Allan Patrick G. Macabeo, Ph.D., discussed information and perspectives on how to prepare manuscripts for submission to high impact journals indexed in Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science and Scopus. He emphasized that one particular talent critical to the success of a graduate student is the ability to publish, especially if the career goal is to become an academic or research scientist. Publishing topnotch research not only allow academics to propel and advance new scientific knowledge, but also forms the basis of a future research program and a groundwork for a successful profession as a research scientist. Further, he pointed out that submitting and publishing manuscripts in a high impact journal entails many considerations such as relevance, reputation, indexing, peer review service, cost and scope. Therefore, focused preparation and technical soundness and completeness are gateways toward high impact publication.

Edward H. Puzon, Head Librarian of the UST Miguel de Benavides Library’s Graduate School Section provided instructions on how to access and navigate the Library’s electronic resources. The presentation moved along with the steps for accessing Web of Science (WoS), particularly Journal Citation Reports (JCR), where the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and the Quartile Ranking were discussed. Mr. Puzon also presented a useful feature of another WoS product, the Master Journal List, which is the Match Manuscript, whereupon inputting one’s research title and abstract, one would be able to generate a list of journal titles as options for potential publication submission.

Prof. Michael Anthony C.  Vasco, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School, delivered the closing remarks. He stated that a successful publication in a high impact journal is a mark of quality acceptance of a research output and it will attract other researchers to cite the contribution of your research. With the publication requirement instituted by the Commission on Higher Education to both the masters and doctorate students beginning AY 2023-2024, it is imperative that graduate students and faculty advisers should ensure that research works are published only in high quality academic research journals.

The webinar was attended by administrators led by Dean Michael Anthony  C. Vasco, faculty members, and more than 140 graduate students across disciplines enrolled in thesis and dissertation writing this term.

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Atlas, who was a former biostatistician of the University of South Australia – School of Health Sciences and the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence, emphasized that research data management encompasses the organization, storage, preservation, and sharing of data collected and used in a research project. Good management helps prevent errors and increases the quality of analyses. He also shared professional and personal experiences on how to deal with data management. He also underscored the development of a living data management plan to support successful research projects.

This special lecture was supported by DOST-PCHRD. It was attended by the current students of the Ph.D. in Health Research program, as well as the team of Prof. Consuelo G. Suarez, M.D., Ph.D., program consultant.

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The four-day event strengthened the continuing interaction between Filipino and Filipino-American scientists and engineers at various stages of their research careers. Academic researchers, graduate and undergraduate students of science and engineering programs of Philippine and foreign-based institutions, presented their research findings through plenary lectures, research posters, and parallel lecture sessions organized into 15 research expertise clusters (RECs).

Among this year’s plenary speakers were National Scientist Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, S.J., a renowned mathematician and former President of the Ateneo de Manila University; Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz of the Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy Research and Education; and Thomasian alumni including Prof. Edralin Lucas, Ph.D. (Oklahoma State University), Prof. Pedro Jose, M.D., Ph.D. (George Washington University), and Carmela Centeno, Ph.D. (United Nations Industrial Development Organization based in Vienna, Austria).

These alumni were joined by Prof. Grecebio Jonathan Alejandro, Dr.rer.nat. (Director of the Office for Graduate Research of the Graduate School and a Professor at the College of Science and the Graduate School), who also delivered one of the plenary lectures. Other notable Thomasian lecturers included College of Science alumnus Dr. Warren Vidar of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Asst. Prof. Karen Katrina Trinidad, Ph.D., (Chair of the UST Department of Psychology) who delivered lectures in their respective RECs.
PAASE also presented the winners of the Severino and Paz Koh Lectureship Award, namely, Dr. Rosalia C.M. Simmen and Dr. Elmer P. Dadios.

PAASE likewise recognized the best poster papers submitted for this year’s conference. The winners are Cristel Joyce Mallari of the Pampanga State Agricultural University (1st Place), Janelle Anne C. Gonzales of the Philippine Textile Research Institute (2nd Place) and Hidenori Tomimatsu of the University of Santo Tomas (3rd Place).

The 42nd iteration of the annual meeting of PAASE was made possible by the collaboration between the PAASE Board of Directors led by its president, Dr. Mariano Sto. Domingo of the University of Maryland in Baltimore County and the local organizing committee led by Academician Prof. Emeritus Fortunato Sevilla III, Ph.D. of the University of Santo Tomas.

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The lecture titled “Between steel and the soft beating heart: Comparing and contrasting visions of the nation through literary Indonesia” explores Indonesian vision of a modern nation beginning with the final years of the Suharto regime and as she becomes the object of the construction of two worldviews of nationalism: the integralist view by the state and the imaginative – albeit non-official and oppositional- views by the poets. The interdisciplinary approach used by Leong elicited quite a number of questions from students of Literature, Communication and Marketing Communication and from faculty and guests as they sought to establish connections and comparisons between the Suharto regime of Indonesia and the Martial Law regime in the Philippines. Leong concludes that there have been quite a number of disparate constructions of nations sponsored by the statist-integralist sectors and by the culturalist-performative group of poets.

            Leong finished his degree from the National University of Singapore and has been previously educated in the United States and the United Kingdom. A researcher interested in human rights and how people cope with the trauma of violence, Leong deploys memory studies as his key framework in his publication projects. His bionotes make an emphatic claim, namely: “With a keen interest in the burgeoning field of memory studies, Dr. Leong’s research is prompted by how it intersects with the history and culture of the region.” He recently visited the Philippines in order to investigate how victims of extrajudicial killings during the Duterte era cope with trauma and how this could be externalized through rituals connected to the dead and their memorialization. Corollary to that, his bionotes further state that “trained in Southeast Asian Studies and political science, he has an abiding interest in the linkages between the region and human rights.”

            The Literature, Communication, and Marketing Communication cluster has been consistently holding international lectures in recent years, attentively covering the disciplines and sub-fields in its program of studies. The October 8 lecture also featured the Welcome Remarks of GS Dean Prof. Michael Anthony C. Vasco, Ph.D., and the Closing Remarks of Program Lead Prof. Joyce Arriola, Ph.D. The lecture was hosted and moderated by Dr. Jennifer Ortuoste.

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The paper presented by Mr. Mendoza was just one of the three case studies making up his Ph.D. thesis. Nonetheless, he is optimistic that the findings of the entire thesis will stimulate further academic discourse on vaccine scandals both in the Philippines and abroad as he believes that these events can teach us more than just lessons for vaccine hesitancy and health communication.

His presentation discussed “how a Western journalism trust culture finds itself expressed in the way journalists align themselves with the competitive model of democracy that facilitates their internalization of a contradiction between how they understand and perform their role as challengers of the dominant narrative.”

Mendoza found that, “Far from being moments of professional disruption then, the news coverage of the Dengvaxia scandal was an occasion where ‘more of the same’ got reproduced. Yet, rather than being legitimized from the practical, local, or organic contexts of their application, this ‘more of the same’ got justified ‘from without’ by journalists.”

The conference was first organized in 2016 by the Scandalogy Research Initiative led by Dr. Hendrik Michael and Prof. Dr. André Haller. The Scandalogy Research Initiative aims to foster a network of international academics from a variety of disciplines, including political communication, journalism studies, public relations, digital communication research, and cultural studies. Most of its scientific output is presented at bi-annual conferences and collected volumes.

As stated on its website, the range of academic fields that study scandals as social phenomena justifies designating “Scandalogy” as a separate area of study. In this regard, Scandalogy seeks to deepen our comprehension of the connections between scandals and the media while examining their effects on society.

Mr. Mendoza, currently teaching in UST under the Department of Communication and Media Studies, is in his last year of Ph.D. studies. Upon finishing, he intends to continue working for UST in the hopes of cultivating a new generation of social scientists who will work with him in studying Filipino political culture and communication.

The full video recording of his paper presentation can be accessed at: https://www.academia.edu/video/kVRBJk

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