New Electrical Engineers, Master Electricians, Professional Electrical Engineers

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 1,101 out of 2,613 Registered Electrical Engineers; 429 out of 1,476 Registered Master Electricians; and 9 Professional Electrical Engineers successfully passed the Electrical Engineer Licensure Examinations given by the Board of Electrical Engineering
in Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi and Zamboanga this September 2009.

Complete results here.

Nominations for the 2009 Search for the CHED Research and Publication (REPUBLICA) Awards

The University of San Carlos has announced the following nominations for the 2009 Search for the CHED Research and Publication (REPUBLICA) Awards:

1. DR. DANILO T. DY (Department of Biology), “Temperature Tolerance of Some Species of Philippine Intertidal Echinoderms” published in The Philippine Scientist, Vol. 44, pp. 105-119, 2007 by the University of San Carlos Publication for Natural Sciences category.

2. DR. RAMON S. DEL FIERRO (Department of Chemistry), “Detection Time of Phentermine in Blood, Urine and Hair of Rats” published in The Philippine Scientist, Vol. 44, pp. 1-11, 2007 by the University of San Carlos Publication for Natural Sciences category.

3. DR. CONCEPCION S. MENDOZA (Department of Chemistry), “Some Metals in Airborne Particulate Matter in Metro Cebu Philippines” published in The Philippine Scientist, Vol. 44, pp. 13-24, 2007 by the University of San Carlos Publication for Natural Sciences category.

4. DR. FISCALINA A. NOLASCO (Department of Sociology-Anthropology), “Women’s Narratives of Past Illness Episodes in Paradise Island, a Philippine Cebuano Community” published in Anthropology and Health Journal, Issue 1 pp. 22-29, 2008 by Syllaba Press for Social Sciences category.

5. DR. HOPE S. YU (Department of Languages and Literature), “Memory, Nostalgia, and the Filipino Diaspora in the Works of Two Filipina Writers” published in Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, Vol. 36 No. 3, pp. 103-123, September 2008 by the University of San Carlos Publication for Social Sciences category.

PRC: New Guidance Counselors

The Professional Regulation Commission announces that 26 applicants were approved for registration without examination as Guidance Counselors after compliance with Section 14, Article III of R.A. 9258 (Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004), and Section 14, Rule III of Resolution No. 02 Series of 2007 (Rules and Regulations of the Guidance and Counseling of 2004), per Board Res. No. 11 dated September 4, 2009, Series of 2009.

List of approved applicants for registration without examination per Board Res. No. 11 dated September 4, 2009, Series of 2009.

1 ALBA, Ma. Christita Ruega
2 AQUINO, Rosario Abu
3 BALLOVAR, Jose Baylon
4 BALUYOT, Shirley Latoga
5 CALINGACION, Edna Gladys Teves
6 CAMPOPOS, Linda Bañaga
7 DAGOOC, Jerry Saniel
8 DE JESUS, Alma Rante
9 DE LEON, Jezamine Reyes
10 ESCARCHA, Isabel Dellosa
11 ESTRERA, Alma Gatpandan
12 GUASA, Evelyn Telen
13 INFANTE, Maria Estela De Los Reyes
14 KOPPIN, Maricar Trasmonte
15 LOPEZ, Rudy Baldoza
16 MEDRANO, Fe Fernandez
17 MONTAÑO, Hilda Clavel
18 MORALES, Resurrecion Sandoval
19 MUGOT, Lelinda Calinawagan
20 ORIÑO, Arnold Francis Nacianceno
21 RETAMAR, Teresita Perez
22 REYES, Rachel Castillo
23 REYES, Remedios Seludo
24 TAN, Ernesto Lao
25 TINONAS, Delilah Delfin
26 VESTAL, Philadelfa Espina

Non-working Holidays in September 2009

Subject: USC Non-working Holidays in September

As has been officially announced, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared September 7 and September 21 as non-working holidays.

Three Cebuano fiction books to be launched

The Cebuano Studies Center posted this report:

The Cebuano Studies Center will be launching three collections of Cebuano fiction with English translation this Friday, August 28, at 9 o’clock in the morning at the USC Buttenbruch Hall.

To be launched are two volumes of Sugilanong Sugbuanon, published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, and a collection of Gremer Chan Reyes’ stories called Men at Sea and Other Stories, published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

The stories in Sugilanong Sugbuanon were edited and translated by the same writers who prepared the Sugbuanong Balak collections: Resil B. Mojares, Erlinda K. Alburo, Vicente Bandillo and Simeon Dumdum, Jr. Mojares introduces each volume with a critical essay on the development of Cebuano fiction. Research for the project was funded by the Toyota Foundation of Japan.

Vol. 1 carries 13 remarkable texts from 1852 (Antonio Ubeda de la Santisima Trinidad’s La Teresa) to 1940 (Antonio Abad’s “Ang Kaguol ni Banogon”). Other works representative of the pre-war period are by Vicente Sotto, Escolastico Morre, Juan Villagonzalo, Amando Osorio, Vicente Garces, Vicente Rama, Pantaleon Kardenas, Flaviano Boquecosa, Marcel Navarra, Estrella Alfon, and Florentino Tecson. Vol. 2 collects stories representing the post-war years, by 15 writers from Fausto Dugenio (1946) to Ma. Victoria Beltran (2005).

Men at Sea, both edited and translated by Hope Sabanpan-Yu, is a collection of ten stories written by Gremer Chan Reyes which were published in the Bisaya and Bag-ong Suga.