Faculty News

COE, COS faculty join US-based academy confab

Faculty members of the Colleges of Engineering and Science were paper and poster presenters in the 25th Annual Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) Meeting and Symposium held from June 24 to 27 at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City.

With the theme “Promotion of International Science & Technology Cooperation,” the conference was attended by scientists, academicians, medical professionals, engineers, researchers, and graduate students.

Presenters include COS Vice Dean Voltaire Mistades, Mechanical Engineering Full Professor Dr. Alvin Culaba, Manufacturing Engineering and Management Full Professor Dr. Elmer Dadios, Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Dr. Raymond Tan, and Physics Associate Professor Dr. Ma. Luisa Enriquez.

During the meeting, Culaba was elected vice president and president-elect of PAASE. He is set to assume the presidency in year 2007. Meanwhile, Tan, Dr. Andres Oreta, Dr. Susan Roces, Dr. Arlene Pascasio, and Dr. Blesilda Raposa were inducted as new members of the US-based academy.

DLSU-Manila is set to host the 27th Annual PAASE Meeting & Symposium in 2007.
PAASE was founded and incorporated as a non-profit organization in the state of Indiana, USA on April 23, 1980 by a small group of Filipino scientists and engineers. It aims to promote the advancement of science and technology and to encourage collaborative work among US and Philippine-based Filipino scientists and engineers in research and development.

Gripaldo presents paper on religion and culture in Jakarta

Philosophy Department Chair Dr. Rolando Gripaldo delivered his paper “Roman Catholicism and the Filipino Culture” during the International Conference on “Relation of Religions and Culture in Southeast Asia.” The conference was held last June 27-28 at the University of Jakarta in Indonesia.

Sponsored by the Council of Research in Values and Philosophy of Washington D.C. and the University of Jakarta, the conference was attended by scholars from the Southeast Asian Region.

In his paper, Gripaldo tried to show that the introduction of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines affected two fundamental influences namely westernization, which enabled native Filipinos to see and gradually adopt a different culture and syncretism where Filipino indigenous rituals and practices are made compatible to Catholicism.

The author likewise tried to argue that folk Catholicism – the net result of inculturation (bringing the Catholic faith to indigenous Filipinos) and acculturation (Filipino animists and pagans adjusting to the new faith) – is in general the Filipino way of expressing religion as a way of life.

APISA publishes articles of ISD faculty

Articles of International Studies Department faculty members Dr. Renato De Castro and Charmaine Misalucha were included in the recently published 2004 edited volume Asia in the New Millennium of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA).

Published by the Singapore-based Marshall Cavendish Publishing, the book came out with De Castro’s “Societal Forces as Sources of Military Doctrine and Posture: The Case of the AFP Modernization Programme, 1991-2003 and Misalucha’s “Control at Different Levels: Where Efforts to Curb the Diffusion of Small Arms and Light Weapons have Failed.” The two papers were presented during the APISA First Congress held in Sinagpore from November 27 to 30.
APISA is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization formed in 2001 to promote research, teaching, and publication of political and international studies in Asia.