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ARINGAY, LA UNION – The backbone of the economy rests on the communities when they become productive, secured and enabled. Realizing the need to make our communities, down to the barangay units, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), for the past years, has pushed the Community Empowerment through Science and Technology (CEST program in the regions to make the citizenry self-reliant, capable of contributing to the development of their communities.

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Griffith University, Australia signed an agreement to implement a joint PhD scholarship program on 21 February 2023 at the DOST-Advanced Manufacturing Center in Taguig City, Philippines. The scholarship program aims to support up to 17 Filipino researchers who wish to pursue their doctoral degrees in Griffith University under the identified priority areas, namely, soil ecology and water management, ecology and other related fields.

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By Allan Mauro V. Marfal, DOST-STII

College students from Cebu, who are taking up Biology course, learned the rudiments of popular science writing and tips on creating compelling content about science using social media in a webinar organized by the Department of Science and Technology-Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII).

The learning sessions were conducted in partnership with the Cebu Association of Biology Students Inc. (CABSI) that was held on February 22-23 via Zoom.

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DOST Balik Scientist Dr. Julius Adam Lopez (far left), hosted by the University of San Agustin in Iloilo, trains Filipino researchers.

A Department of Science and Technology – Balik Scientist makes headway in drug discovery and development in the country by isolating antimicrobial compounds to be used in formulating new antibiotics.  

Dr. Julius Adam V. Lopez is a DOST Balik Scientist hosted by the University of San Agustin (USA) in Iloilo City.  His work focused on capacity-building initiatives in handling the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology among Filipino researchers in the Visayas and Mindanao region.  Through this initiative, he was able to isolate and elucidate the structure of novel and/or bioactive compounds from cultured marine actinomycetes in the biobank of USA using the NMR.