Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 22:40:58 +0000
Plant geneticist Emil Javier, who spearheaded the creation of the Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) that popularized high-yielding crops and disease-resistant varieties, is the country’s newest national scientist.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 21:16:20 +0000
SAN PEDRO CITY — The presence of top military commanders at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) on Monday was not meant to “militarize” or “red tag” student activists, a university official on Tuesday said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:31:46 +0000
SAN PEDRO CITY—Student activists at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) hailed as a martyr John Carlo Alberto, who was killed in a recent clash between New People’s Army (NPA) rebels and the Philippine Army in Laguna province.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:16:42 +0000
Colleagues and friends remember James Alvarez, a researcher at the University of the Philippines Los Baños-Museum of Natural History (UPLB-MNH), for his diligence and attention to details, the “sterling qualities” of a taxonomist-ecologist, his mentor said.
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