DOST-PCHRD celebrates 34th year, highlights int’l partnerships in research, innovation for health
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The Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) will celebrate its 34th anniversary celebration on March 17, 2016 at New World Makati Hotel.
With the theme “Going Global: Increasing International Partnerships in Research and Innovation for Health,” the event will highlight globalization of research and innovation for health and the growing interest for international research collaborations.
How the NAT was “won” with the help of DOST’s digital science library
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Dr. Victoria B. Roman Memorial High School in the municipality of Pilar in Bataan Province has reason to be proud.
The school, which formally opened in 1998 with only two regular teachers and 46 first year high school students, ranked number 1 among more than 30 public high schools in the province, in the National Achievement Test (NAT) for Grade 10 in 2014 and 2015. It was the school’s first time to grab the top spot. Previously, the school ranked no. 7 out of 33 schools in the NAT.
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Disaster preparedness, K-12 materials now in DOST’s STARBOOKS
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Resource materials on disaster preparedness are now included in the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) unique library project dubbed as STARBOOKS, or Science and Technology Academic and Research-based Openly Operated Kiosks.
STARBOOKS is the first digital science library in the Philippines and a recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Library Program of the Year Award by the Philippine Association of Academic and Research Librarians.
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Bataan schools with no internet connection receive DOST’s STARBOOKS
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Two schools in Bataan Province with no Internet connection in their remote areas have been provided with groundbreaking science and technology (S&T) research tools for their students, courtesy of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
Read more: Bataan schools with no internet connection receive DOST’s STARBOOKS