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Philippine Genome Center Mindanao, 2020

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Philippine Genome Center Mindanao reported on its mission from April 2020 onward to capacitate hospitals to do COVID-19 testing by training personnel on SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Since April 2020, PGC Mindanao trained 45 medical technologists, doctors, and biologists from six hospitals and institutions in Mindanao: the Dr. Royeca Hospital in General Santos City, the Lanao del Norte Medical Center, the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga, the Butuan Medical Center, the Davao Regional Medical Center in Tagum City, and the Cotabato Regional Medical Center. PGC Mindanao also reported the success of the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga and the Butuan Medical Center in acquiring the accreditation for COVID-19 testing from the Department of Health.
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Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Mindanao will offer a "Mindanao-wide webinar on Omics Research: Moving Past Pandemics” throughout October 2020. Omics are the branches of science in the various disciplines of biology that have names that end in -omics, such as genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, to name a few. The month-long webinar will feature omics in health, agriculture, and food research. PGC Mindanao is located at the University of the Philippines (UP) Mindanao in Davao City. 
 

UP retains rank in top 500

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UP retains rank in top 500 world university rankings, leads in ASEAN in terms of global research influence

Jo. Lontoc, UP Media and Public Relations Office

The University of the Philippines (UP) retains its spot in a roster of the top 500 universities of the world. According to the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE-WUR), UP remains in the 401-500 bracket, after being assessed alongside 1,527 research-intensive universities.

The country’s national university maintained its overall rank despite the number of universities ranked this year increasing from last year’s 1,396. Overall, UP is ranked fifth among noted universities in Southeast Asia (SEA): National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), University of Malaya, and the University of Brunei Darussalam.

UP garnered its highest score in the criterion of citations or global research influence, which accounts for 30% of its total score. THE-WUR comes out with the citation score by capturing the average number of times a university’s published work is cited by scholars globally. This year, bibliometric data supplier Elsevier examined 86 million citations from 2015-2020 across 13.6 million journal articles, article reviews, conference proceedings, books and book chapters published from 2015-2019. [View the Times Higher Education World University Rankings report for the University of the Philippines here.]

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Breakdown of ranking for the University of the Philippines. Source: Times Higher Education

According to the THE, citations are a way of measuring a university’s role in spreading new knowledge and ideas and its contribution to the sum of human knowledge.

The other performance indicators are grouped into the areas of teaching (30%), research (30%), international outlook (7.5%), and industry income (2.5%).

UP Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Carla Dimalanta notes that UP outranks universities in neighboring countries in terms of research citation. Its score of 86.7 outperforms the 81.5 of NUS and the 83 of NTU, the top two ranking universities in the ASEAN region. Singapore’s NUS and NTU are ranked 25 and 47, respectively, in the World University Rankings.

“Our citation score is still a high 86.7, albeit down by a not so significant 0.2 points,” UP Vice President for Academic Affairs Ma. Cynthia Rose Bautista tells UP News. “It has been our strongest criterion, propelling UP to be among the top 500 universities in the world in the last 5 years. Interestingly, UP was among the top 10 universities in the world in terms of its citation score in the clinical, pre-clinical and health disciplines in 2020. Its score was higher than that of the top 10 universities in this field—the University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Imperial College of London, Stanford University, University of Toronto, John Hopkins University, UCL UK, Yale University and Columbia University,” Bautista explained. THE’s 2021 world university ranking by subject has not yet been released.

UP is the first Philippine university to figure in the THE-WUR and the only one to break into its top 500. The national university first figured in the THE-WUR in its 2017 rankings where it placed in the 801+ bracket. It climbed to the top 601-800 in the 2018 rankings and to the top 501-600 in the 2019 rankings. UP then broke through to the top 500, within the 401-500 bracket, in the 2020 rankings.

UP’s jump into the top 500 has been powered mostly by its outstanding score in research citations or “influence in spreading new knowledge and ideas”. Its score leaped from 69.1 out of 100 in the 2019 rankings to 86.9 in the 2020 rankings.

De La Salle University is the only other Philippine university figuring in the THE-WUR, breaking into the top 801-1,000 in the 2019 rankings, before slipping to 1,001+ in the 2020 and 2021 rankings.

According to the THE-WUR website, “The University of Oxford tops the rankings for the fifth consecutive year, while mainland China’s Tsinghua University becomes the first Asian university to break into the top 20 under the current methodology.”

THE publishes some of the most influential rankings used by the global academic community, which include the Asia University Rankings, Asia-Pacific University Rankings, Emerging Economies University Rankings, and the World University Rankings by Subject.

Aside from the Elsevier data, responses from 22,000 scholars around the world are also used by THE, specifically in determining the academic reputation of universities. ###

Prof. Cayamanda, Vice-Chancellor for Administration

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118654066 4361628693909698 4470018683960362471 oThe Board of Regents, during its 1353rd meeting on 02 September 2020, formally confirmed the ad interim appointment of Assoc. Prof. Karen Joyce Cayamanda as the new Vice Chancellor for Administration, effective 1 September 2020, to serve at the discretion of the Chancellor.

Prof. Cayamanda was the former department chair of the Department of Humanities, and she succeeds Prof. Aurelia Luzviminda Gomez as the university's in-charge of operations.

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During the same meeting, the BOR also confirmed the appointment of Assoc. Prof. Raymundo Pavo as CHSS dean, effective 2 September 2020, as well as the formal conferment of degrees and titles to the graduating class of 2020.

Prof. Raymundo R. Pavo, CHSS Dean

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118621546 4361401423932425 7322092603089968688 oThe Board of Regents, during its 1353rd meeting last 02 September 2020, formally approved the appointment of Assoc. Prof. Raymundo Pavo as the new dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, effective 2 September 2020 to 1 September 2023.

Prof. Pavo was the former department chair of the Department of Social Sciences, and he succeeds Arch. Prof. Jean Marie Juanga as the chief executive of CHSS.

"Pagkilala sa UPMin Class of 2020"

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118423801 4357911297614771 6858332153566495908 oRZD40"Pagkilala sa UPMin Class of 2020":
the online tribute to the Graduates of Academic Year 2019-2020.
 
Also available in PDF and EPUB versions.
 
 
 
Video presentation will premiere on 7 September 2020, 07:00 PM in UPMin's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/UniversityofthePhilippinesMindanao).
 
Paglingkuran ang Sambayanan!
Mabuhay ang Pag-asa ng Bayan!
Padayon, UPMin Class of 2020!
 
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"Pagkilala" is a joint production by the Commencement Exercises Adhoc Committee, Office of the University Registrar, University Information Committee, BACMA Sibya Media Production Unit, Radyo Iskolar, and UP Salida.

 

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