Wednesday, November 19, 2014

UST Paskuhan 2014

UST PASKUHAN 2014

As posted in the current Collegiate Calendar, the Paskuhan 2014 celebration will be held on Monday, 8 December 2014 at the UST Grandstand and open field.

The theme of this year’s festivities is “PAGDIRIWANG NG PAGMAMALASAKIT: Tomasino Kaisa ni Papa Francisco at ng Simbahan sa Pasko.”


As in the past, everyone is encouraged to wear RED, GREEN, or YELLOW/GOLD get-ups to heighten the whole-day Christmas festive mood. The festivities will go by following schedule:

Raffle Draw (minor prizes)
Main building canopy
10:00 a.m.

Paskuhan Fair

Campus grounds
12:00 noon

Panunuluyan

Grandstand and open Field
5:00 p.m.

Eucharistic Celebration
Grandstand and open Field
5:30 p.m.
-Main Celebrant:
Very Rev. Gerard Francisco P. Timoner III, O.P.
Vice Chancellor

-Homilist:
Very Rev. Fr. Herminio V. Dagohoy, O.P.
Rector

Agape (free–food booths)
Employees’ Parking Area
7:00 p.m.

Raffle Draw (major prizes)
Plaza Mayor

Paskuhan Concert
Grandstand

Fireworks Display (Campus Grounds)
9:00 p.m


Let us make Thomasian Christmas 2014 another special one by remembering to continue sending help to those who need it most, as our share in the Holy Father’s prayer for Mercy and Compassion for the Filipino nation.

For the Offertory procession, the various Faculties/Colleges and Departments are enjoined to contribute donations in cash, which will be used in the regular projects on the Tulong Tomasino Program of the Simbahayan Community Development Office.

A Blessed Christmas to all!

Sunday, November 16, 2014

UAAP Season 22 Basketball Tournament High School Division First Round of Schedule

UAAP Season 22 Basketball Tournament
High School Division
First Round of Schedule

77 Seniors Volleyball Tournament (Men and Women) First Round Schedule

UAAP Season 77 Seniors Volleyball Tournament (Men and Women) First Round Schedule



ACY Peer Facilitators' Training Program

ACY PEER FACILITATORS’ TRAINING PROGRAM
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING DEPARTMENT


The Guidance and Counselling Department is one with the Archdiocesan Commission on Youth in its steadfast mission of shepherding the young people of today. A joint project entitled “ACY Peer Facilitators’ Training Program” was designed through the initiative of Rev. Fr. Ramon Jade Licuanan of the Archdiocesan Commission on Youth and the UST-GCD Community Development Committee. The UST counselors will train volunteer youth leaders from different parishes of Manila. The youth leaders will undergo four sessions of basic training and four sessions of advance training to become full-pledge Peer Facilitators. As Peer Facilitators in their respective community, they will be guiding their fellow youth in making more responsible decisions in life and in always choosing the way of Christ.



Career Seminar Series 2014

Career Seminar Series 2014
UST Guidance and Counseling Department


The Guidance and Counseling Department proudly brings you the Career Seminar Series 2014 for graduating students with the theme “Exemplifying the Thomasian Identity for World-class Employability”. Come and be equipped with the essential job hunting skills to land on your dream job.  It aims to broaden your perspective in exploring possible employment, opportunities for graduate studies and to keep you abreast with the current trends and demands in your respective profession. Meanwhile, successful alumni will be there to inspire you to pursue excellence in your career and instil in you a heightened sense of Thomasian pride and confidence.

All graduating students of A.Y 2014-2015 are required to attend this activity. The class presidents of graduating sections are requested to coordinate with their respective Guidance Counselor. 



Thursday, November 13, 2014

Four Papers for IUBMB and FAOBMB

SCIENCE NEWS!

Four papers from the UST College of Science were presented during the 15th International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and the 24th Federation of Asian and Ocenian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) International Conference at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan last 21-26 October 2014.

* Asymptomatic Immunoglobulin Epsilon Sensitizations to Tropical Grass Pollen-Derived Carbohydrates (Cabauatan CR, Lupinek C, Weiss R, Focke-Tejkl M, Bhalla P, van Hage M, Ramos JDA, Valenta R.)

* Allergenicity of selected legumepollen extractsin a panel of Filipino atopic individuals (Velasco RUD, Garcia MCZ, Miranda CFL, Paas GRG, Bajao JEM, Yap JMG, Sabit MB, Ramos JDA)

* The -2978C/G single nucleotide polymorphism of ADAM33 gene in a selected Filipino asthmatic population (Yap JM, Ching MW, Cabanilla CQ, Ramos JDA)

* Genotype and allele frequencies of eotaxin -384 A>G and interleukin 5 -703 C>T SNPs in selected pediatric asthmatic population (Ching MW, Santos KCP, Ong CM, JDA Ramos)

The UST delegation composed of participants coming from both the College of Science and the UST Graduate School: John Donnie A. Ramos (faculty); Jennifer Maries Yap (faculty); Joshua Evans Bajao (former Bio student / GS Msc student); Rainier Ulrich Velasco (former Bio student / GS MSs student) and Marciar Ching (GS PhD alumna).

The group was a part of a 16-man delegation from the Philippines.

Dr. Ramos is the current president of the Philippine Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PSBMB), a member of IUBMB and FAOBMB.
 




 

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

UST documents in ancient ‘baybayin’ script declared a National Cultural Treasure

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer | Edgar Allan Sembrano

AERIAL shot the UST Miguel de Benavides Library Building, which houses UST Archives

REGALADO Trota Jose with the ancient documents on his desk at UST Archives.

Owing to their outstanding cultural value, two 17th-century baybayin documents from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Archives were recently declared National Cultural Treasure (NCT) by the National Archives of the Philippines (NAP). Baybayin is the ancient Filipino syllabary in use during the Spanish contact in the 16th century.

The declaration was made during the Second Baybayin Conference on Aug. 22 at National Museum of the Filipino People at Agrifina Circle in Manila. The conference was held in conjunction with the Buwan ng Wika (National Language Month) celebration.

“This is the first declaration made by the National Archives and the first paper document to be declared as NCT,” said UST professor Regalado Trota Jose, director of the UST Archives and a former commissioner of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The formal declaration was made by National Archivist Ino Manalo.


Cover sheet of 1613 document
Jose said the recognition highlighted the age of UST and its status as Asia’s oldest university and an historic institution.

He explained the ancient scripts should assist in the understanding of the history of the university and the Philippine nation, and highlighted the importance of the collection of ancient documents in the UST Archives.
Significance
The UST Baybayin Documents, said Jose, represent the longest and most complete documents handwritten entirely in baybayin, a Philippine script in use since pre-colonial times up to the present.
The two records are also the oldest of their kind, both as being written in baybayin and as examples of early deeds of sale, showing insights into the use of baybayin by different individuals living in and around Manila in the early 17th century and in the legal affairs of early Spanish colonization.

1635 deed of sale
These documents, Jose explained, also provide insights into a particular stage of the orthographical and paleographical development of baybayin scripts and are very rare examples of 17th-century records in a fair state of preservation. The deeds of sale also highlight the role of women in ancient Philippine society as landowners and entrepreneurs. Jose said ancient women apparently had the same power as men to own and sell land. They provide insights on how much more prevalent was the use of baybayin then, since it was generally thought previously that baybayin was just limited to writing poems, accounting and signing of documents.

Deeds of Sale
“These two documents are deeds of sale of lands. The first one is 1613 (Document A); the second one is 1635 (Document B),” said Jose.

COVER sheet of 1635 document written in Spanish and baybayin.
He said Don Andres Capiit bought the land in Document A; married DoƱa Francisca Longar, who bought the land in Document B. Longar remarried after Capiit died sometime between 1613 and 1625. She married Don Luis Castilla, who sold some lands to UST in 1629. A contestation ensued, and Castilla had to show Documents A and B as proofs of ownership. The documents were passed on to the university archives after the acquisition of the land from Castilla. These deeds of sale were actually part of a book with baybayin documents, said Jose.

During the UST tricentenary in 1911 (the university was founded by the Dominicans in 1611), among the “treasures” exhibited by UST to the public were the baybayin documents. The two documents were first published in 1911 on Libertas, the daily newspaper published by UST.

Conservation


1613 document. The discoloration is water-damage from particularly heavy floods in the 1930s.
“We are recognized as custodians of the NCT, but there’s the responsibility for these to be taken care of,” said Jose about the declaration. “So we have to have good (environment) to take care of these. Not only these but all other documents [in the collection]. These are to be kept for posterity, for the next generations, for other people and other countries to use and study later on.”

“So we have to train our staff to know how to handle the documents,” added Jose, who also teaches in the Cultural Heritage Studies program of the UST Graduate School. The actual copies are not available for public viewing due to their fragile state. Replicas have been made and may be viewed at UST Archives bulletin board (5/F, Central Library). These will eventually be uploaded on the UST website along with important data.

‘Tagalog ABC’
The baybayin is a pre-Islamic, pre-Spanish Philippine script with 14 consonants and three vowels. It is wrongly referred to as an alibata or alphabet.

Baybayin, explained Jose, “is the term used in the alphabet. If we are going to refer to the old Tagalog dictionaries, baybayin is the ABC of the Tagalogs. So ’di tamang gamitin ang alibata (So alibata is not the correct word). Alibata is a term invented in 1914. So it is not a traditional word. It was just invented to refer to this.”
The baybayin is still being used today by the Palaw’an and Tagbanua ethnic groups of Palawan and the Hanunuo and Buhid Mangyan of Mindoro.

A number of baybayin artifacts have been recovered through archaeological diggings or by accident all over the country. These are the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (Laguna); Calatagan Ritual Pot (Batangas); Intramuros Potsherd (Manila); Monreal Stone (Masbate); Butuan Tin Paleograph and Butuan Ivory Seal (Agusan del Norte).

The first book printed in the Philippines, “Doctrina Christiana,” published by the Dominicans in 1593, was also in  baybayin, as well as in Spanish and Tagalog Roman scripts.
The new declaration may be the sixth recognition from the Philippine government for UST.

In 2011, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines declared UST a National Historical Landmark. In 2010, in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of UST in 2011, the National Museum declared four sites on campus as NCT: UST Main Building, UST Central Seminary, UST Arch of the Centuries and  UST Open Grounds.

Even much earlier, around the 1940s, the National Historical Institute installed a marker at the  UST Press (now the UST Publishing House), naming it a National Historical Site. The UST Press is the second-oldest press in the world, after the Cambridge University Press of England.

Source: http://bit.ly/ustbaybayin

UST Baybayin Documents as National Treasure

ANOTHER "FIRST" FROM UST

The National Museum has already declared the UST Main Building, the Central Seminary, the Arch of the Centuries, and UST’s open spaces (parade grounds) as “National Cultural Treasures” in 2010.


This is the first time for an educational institution to join the roster of National Cultural Treasures, with the majority of such structures being churches, and the rest being terrestrial landmarks, intangible cultural property, and movable objects.


Another first from UST is the formal declaration of Baybayin Documents of the University of Santo Tomas as a National Treasure held this morning ,13 November 2014 | 9:00 AM at the Miguel de Benavides Library (Ground Floor). It is the first archival document  declared as a national treasure. 


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Sunday, November 9, 2014

UST-CTHM STUDENT AWARDEE (1st TERM AY 2014 – 2015)


 STUDENT AWARDEES 1st TERM AY 2014 – 2015
UST College of Tourism and Hospitality Management

MAFBEX 2014: JUNE 11 – 13, 2014
                  COOKING DEMONSTRATION: GOLD
ELENA FAITH CARIƑO
                  BEST COFFEE CONCOCTION: SILVER
JEROME PAUL MISA, PATRICIA FAYE CANA
                  MOCKTAIL PUNCH: BRONZE
JAEMI ELEAZAR, NIKKA YABAO, GABRIEL PETERSON
                  TABLE SETTINGS: BEST NAPKIN FOLD
LARRY VENTURA, ANGELICA TONGOL, MIEL JOHN CAMPOMANES,
 JHON LAREVE PARRABA, JOHN PAUL CAPARAS
 
Ventura

2014 PHILIPPINE CULINARY CUP: AUGUST 6 – 9, 2014
                  YOUNG CHEFS TEAM CHALLENGE: BRONZE
                                    MARTIN ANTONIO TIOSECO, FRANCES CHARISSA ROXAS
 
Roxas and Tioseco
25TH TRAVEL MART COMPETITION: SEPT 7, 2014
                  PATIMPALAK NG KASUOTANG FILIPINO: GRAND WINNER
                                    JUSTINE NAVATO – DESIGNER
                                    MIYA MORELOS – MODEL
                  HIMIG NG KUNDIMAN: 1ST PLACE
                                    SHARLENE (FROM CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC)
                  QUIZ BEE: 3RD PLACE
                                    CAMILA DE GUZMAN

NATIONAL FOOD SHOWDOWN 2014: SEPTEMBER 23 – 24, 2014
                  AMUSE BOUCHE DISPLAY: GOLD WITH DISTINCTION
                                    FRANCES CHARISSE ROXAS
                  THE SOUP KITCHEN: GOLD
                                    CARLO VENTURA AND PAOLO SALTING
                  KLASIKA KULINARYA: SILVER
                                    CAMILLE GERONA AND JOMER LACHICA
                  MAIN COURSE DISPLAY: SILVER
                                    MARTIN ANTONIO TIOSECO
                  DIPS AND CHIPS: BRONZE
                                    JOHN PAUL CAPARAS
                  CUPCAKES: BRONZE
                                    KARREN FAYE YBAƑES
                  PLATED DESSERTS: DIPLOMA
                                    JENNINE BOADA AND MIKAELA TUAZON
                  COFFEE CONCOCTION: DIPLOMA
                                    PATRICIA FAYE CANA
                  MOCKTAIL MIXING: DIPLOMA
                                    JHON LAREVE PARRABA
                  EDIBLE ART: DIPLOMA
                                    SHANDALICA CARPIO
 
Gerona
Ybanes
Boada and Tuazon
Tioseco
Roxas
Salting

GRAND CULINARY CHALLENGE: AUGUST 29 – 30, 2014
                  FOODCART BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION: 1ST PLACE
                                    HYACINTH JEANED BARROS
                  CREATIVE BAR CHOW COMPETITION: 3RD PLACE
                                    KEVIN JOSEPH DE LOS SANTOS
                 
THE AMERICAN HOSPITALITY ACADEMY: AUGUST 27, 2014
                  AMERICAN HOSPITALITY ATTITUDE: STAR OF “AHA”
                                    ROME VOLTAIRE GOMEZ

Gomez



UAAP Season 77 Seniors Volleyball Tournament Schedule (November 22, 2014-March 11, 2015)



Friday, November 7, 2014

"Fall for Seoul: Be Captivated by the Season and Heart of Korea"


The Tour and Travel Operations and Management Class of 3T1 and 3T2 of the UST College of Tourism and Hospitality Management had an International Tour in Seoul, South Korea entitled, "Fall for Seoul: Be Captivated by the Season and Heart of Korea" from November 3-7, 2014.

The objectives of the aforementioned tour are as follows:
1. To gain first-hand experience which will help the students comprehend the procedures in managing and operating an international group tour;
2. To distinguish the roles of travel agents, tour operators, escorts and guides;
3. To evaluate the different travel components that are essential in tourism product development;
4. To appreciate South Korea’s natural beauty and cultural diversity which makes it a popular Tourism and Hospitality destination; and
5. To document the learning carried out from the international tour through personal journal.

The tour is participated by 91 Travel Management students coming from the above mentioned classes. Accompanying the group are Rev. Fr. Romulo V. Rodriguez, OP, JCD (College Regent), Asst. Prof. Fredeswindo R. Medina (Travel Management Program Chair), Atty. Gezzez G. Granado and Assoc. Prof. Amy Mia R. Turaray (Faculty-in-Charge).

Some of the sites and attractions that will be visited include: Nami Island, Mt. Sorak, The Great Bronze Statue, Wind Village, Everland, The Blue House, National Folklore Museum, Geongbok Palace, N Seoul Tower and Digital Pavilion. They will also see the famous Nanta show, have Taekwondo exposure and experience Kimchi and Bibimbap making and Hanbok wearing.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

The Spineless Collections



The University of Santo Tomas  is home to the first comprehensive collection of natural history in the country. Fr. Casto de Elera, OP, who was the second director of the UST Natural History Museum, amassed a huge number of specimens during the 19th Century. The UST Museum currently houses Fr. De Elera’s extensive assemblage estimated to be more than 10,000 specimens of various mineral, botany, and zoology collections. Most of the specimens in the collection have never been opened to any public exhibit since the 1800’s.
 As the first exhibit that will showcase invertebrate specimens that were acquired and catalogued by Fr. de Elera, the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School – Invertebrate Systematics and Evolution Class, in cooperation with the UST Museum and the UST College of Science will be holding an exhibit entitled “The Spineless Collections of Fr. Casto de Elera, OP: Reliving the Past”. This is a natural history exhibit to be held from November 13 to 21, 2014 at the UST Main Building Lobby, EspaƱa, Manila.
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The University of Santo Tomas Graduate School --- Invertebrate Systematics and Evolution Class, in cooperation with the UST Museum and the UST College of Science is pleased to invite you to “The Spineless Collections of Fr. Casto de Elera OP, Reliving the Past”, a natural history exhibit to be held from November 13 to 21, 2014 at the UST Main Building Lobby, EspaƱa, Manila.

This is the first exhibit that will showcase invertebrate specimens that were acquired and catalogued by Fr. Casto de Elera, O.P. who was the second director of the UST Natural History Museum.