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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) in partnership with DOH and other institutions,  plans to deploy at least 100 more RxBox devices by the end of 2016.

This was revealed in the second eHealth Summit held during the recent National Science and Technology Week celebration at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

RxBox is a device with built-in medical sensors capable of storing data in an electronic medical record, transmitting health information via the Internet upon the consent of the patient, and facilitating tele-consultations.  

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The number of slots for undergraduate scholarship offered by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) under its Science Education Institute (SEI), has more than tripled in five years, jumping from 1,250 in 2010 to 5,595 in 2015.

“We’re also now preparing the groundwork for recruiting new partner universities and introducing innovations into the program for us to expand by 100% in 2017, on our way to meet the required critical number of scientists,” stated DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo in his keynote speech at “In Touch with Excellence,” one of the events during the recent National Science and Technology Week.

In addition, DOST is now producing an average of 350 Master’s and 35 PhD graduates in priority science and engineering courses annually.

“Since 2010, we have been strengthening and enhancing our S&T ecosystem, an ecosystem that empowers our scientists and engineers to come up with innovative ideas to improve productivity, enhance delivery of government services, and address the most pressing concerns of Aling Maria and Mang Juan,” said Montejo during the event which feted DOST scholars who achieved academic excellence in schoolyear 2014-2015.

According to the Science Secretary, the most critical component of this ecosystem is its human resources, and their number is critical for the Philippines to become a Science Nation able to sustain its development.

“You are blessed with intelligence,” Montejo said, addressing the scholars in the audience. “It’s only proper to use this God-given intelligence to explore and understand nature.

Whatever God created in nature is for our benefit. Let us use this for our country’s own good.”

Meanwhile, Ernest Nathan L. Nogales, a scholar who graduated summa cum laude from UP Diliman with a degree in BS Chemical Engineering and one of the honorees, rallied his co-DOST scholars to “think about serving the people, not out of duty but out of love. I assure you there is lasting happiness there.”

In his speech, Nogales reminded them that some areas in the country remain marginalized – with no electricity, among others.

On the other hand, DOST Undersecretary for Scientific and Technological Services Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara called on the scholars to venture in entrepreneurship while completing their dissertation or thesis.  

Around  239 undergraduate, MS, and PhD scholars under SEI’s various scholarship programs were honored this year for their academic achievements in “In Touch with Excellence” held at the Philippine International Convention Center.

For more about the scholarships, log on to www.sei.dost.gov.ph and www.science-scholarships.ph (S&T Media Service)

 
DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo

 
DOST scholar Ernest Nathan L. Nogales, summa cum laude graduate from UP Diliman with a degree in BS Chemical Engineering (middle) and his parents with (from left) DOST Usec. Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, DOST Sec. Mario G. Montejo, and DOST-SEI Dir. Dr. Josette T. Biyo (far right).

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According to Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Asst. Secretary Raymund E. Liboro, librarians will no longer be the typical detached person inside the library with STARBOOKS around.

Instead, more students and library users will approach and rely on them for information they need from a technology such as STARBOOKS, or Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station, the first science digital library in the Philippines.

Liboro made this statement during the STARBOOKS Convention, one of the activities in the recent 2015 National Science and Technology Week at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

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From the previous number of 57 cocolisap hotspot areas, only seven remain in the Philippines as of December 2014.

“Our latest report is that, in fact, there are no more hotspots in CALABARZON and the remaining problem is only in Basilan,” stated Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Romulo N. Arancon Jr. during the recent Agri-Aqua Forum by the Department of Science and Technology‘s Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD).

The forum was one of the activities during DOST’s 2015 National Science and Technology Week from July 24-28, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.   
Cocolisap, or coconut scale insect (CSI), possesses specialized mouthparts for sucking the sap directly from the tree’s vascular system. This causes yellowing, wilting, premature nutfall, and eventually, low coconut yield.