2010 uplb annual report

Introduction

Strengthening Our Niches

Increasing Our Absorptive Capacity

Sustaining Our Contributions to Nation Building

Strengthening TEAM governance

Improving Administrative Efficiency

Establishing a Sustainable Resource Base

Promoting an Enabling Environment

Celebrate Our Centennial Years

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The challenges of our times require fostering interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship to effectively address problems and respond to profound transformations in the socioeconomic, political, and biophysical landscapes. UPLB as a national university (RA 9500) has boldly adopted a framework of operation using the transdisciplinary approach as a platform to facilitate collaboration among the scientific and scholarly disciplines with the realm of practice.

Such collaboration has provided a higher and more comprehensive level of integration of scientific knowledge and human action oriented towards present-day challenges, the solutions of which transcend scientific disciplines. With this paradigm shift, we have been guided by the need for a common conceptual framework in addressing challenges in the basic sciences, education and human development, culture and arts, food and nutrition safety and security, integrated natural resources and environmental management, energy systems, development and governance, biotechnology, ICT and engineering, and climate change and aggravated natural resources.

As such, we have taken a hard look at our curricular and R&D programs and have upgraded some of them to address the need for human resource in various areas where we have a strong potential for producing. For instance, BS Agricultural Biotechnology addresses the food needs of our burgeoning population. It is also a field for which we have an excellent pool of experts. Technopreneurship has

been demanded by the times with the need to accelerate commercialization of agriculture technologies, promote an entrepreneurial culture/mindset and generate jobs. To help foster interdisciplinarity in R&D, we have initiated the setting up of the UPLB Biomathematics Initiative, and possibly, the Low Carbon Research and Development Center.

Moreover, while taking this integrative mindset, we have brought ourselves to the realization that we may have the best qualified mentors and the latest to impart from the scientific disciplines. Learning, in order to be effective, must be learner-centered and should not be so much the delivery of instruction as the production of learning, and should therefore elicit student discovery and construction of knowledge.

We have also gone full throttle into the implementation of the large class size policy that has allowed us to respond to other concerns such as the shortage of seasoned teachers, bottleneck courses, continuing education for teachers, and the need for them to produce scholarly outputs. We gave full material support to the large class size policy.

Our graduates have consistently proven themselves to be worthy contributors to development through their excellent performance. In courses that require licensure examinations to be professional practitioners, our students have consistently performed well, giving UPLB the distinction of being the number one school in these fields.

Commercialization of our technologies continues while our scientists churn out important information, discoveries, and inventions. We got a boost in commercialization with two patents given to UPLB, namely, “Method for Extending the Marketable Life of ‘Carabao’ Mangoes” and “Microbial Inoculant for Use as Biofertilizer, Crop Growth Promoter, and Biological Control Agent.”

We have partnered with industry, government, other SUCs, and international funding agencies to implement R&D projects and to set up a venue for our expertise to be tapped by sectors that need them. Moreover, we weighed in on policy formulation and tried to influence policy and governance through our policy advocacy initiatives.

Meanwhile, our town-and-gown activities have continued to integrate us into our nearby communities with UPLB providing technical assistance and opportunities for continuing education and training. While we were at this, we also took care of maintaining a solid UPLB team, along with our alumni and supporters, through a strong TEAM governance approach.

It has truly been an eventful and productive year. Together, we look forward to 2011 when we can fully consolidate and nurture the gains that we have made in distinctive excellence.

Introduction

Initiatives on the findings of the UPLB External Program Evaluation and Management Review

Declining enrollment in forestry is a global phenomenon but something that we should arrest as we need foresters now more than ever. We intend to do this through a 5-year strategic plan in forestry education that will address the inability to attract more and good quality students, increasing degree-employment mismatch, declining government support to forestry education, research, and extension, among other developments that impinge on our ability to increase our output.

The same situation behooves us to adjust our agriculture curriculum by institutionalizing “sunshine” and “cutting edge” disciplines. Although we have witnessed renewed interest in agriculture through our BS Agricultural Biotechnology program, we have been holding continuing

conversations to come up with a new agenda for agriculture education. Among these conversations were six centennial professorial chair lectures, namely, “UPLBCA Agenda for 2011-2035,” “Livestock and Poultry Sector,” “Land Resource Utilization,” “Crop Postharvest Sector,” “Crop Production Sector,” and “Food Processing Sector.”

The crucial elements of scientific research in the next decade are creativity and innovation. In the arts and sciences, we have modified our approach to instruction to be more learner-centered: from delivery of instruction to the production of learning; from offering programs to creating powerful learning environments. This calls for improving not just the quality of instruction, but the quality of learning, by eliciting student discovery and construction of knowledge. The framework for this paradigm shift was presented at the UPLB and UPLBFI Management Planning Workshop on July 29, 2010.

Mobilization of experts and funding the development of programs to showcase distinctive excellence

We mobilized experts to develop programs and projects showcasing excellence in sustainable rural development and research/manpower support to CALABARZON through Collaborative Research, Development and Extension Services (CRDES). The CRDES has launched programs on extension delivery system in CALABARZON and Bicol; enhancing farm productivity and income through rice-based farming system, and market-oriented organic vegetables; site-specific nutrient management for maize; enhancing demand for agriculture forestry and natural resources graduates; and food security. The CRDES team was mobilized to investigate the armyworm outbreak in Quezon and to recommend actions to manage the outbreak/infection.

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StrengtheningOur Niches


We have set up a native animal farm to conduct researches on climate change and breed development. In food science, we focused on food safety, climate change, and health-promoting phytochemicals from local food plants and the like.

CHED review concerns and recommendations

We are working for the second phase implementation of agricultural engineering in UPLB as a CHED COE and have developed the proposal, “Research, Development, and Extension Excellence in Agricultural Engineering through Machine Vision and Infrared Spectroscopy” for this.

UPLB has obtained funding from the CHED Center of Excellence in Mathematics Grant to reinvigorate research initiatives in mathematics. Among the activities that have been held are a) giving awards of excellence to undergraduate and graduate research in mathematics; b) holding of a research summer school in algebra and combinatorics attended by 84 tertiary level teachers; c) the creation of the mathematics research library; d) hosting of the first national conference on semigroups, groups, graphs and codes; and e) the publication of the Philippine Journal for the Mathematical Sciences.

We aim to become a center of excellence in environmental science and management, after having been awarded as a center of development for excellence by the Commission on Higher Education. The primary success factors that we will build on are relevance to current societal needs and interdisciplinarity - a strength that has attracted students to take our degree programs.

We have repaired and upgraded laboratories as part of the important requirements that we have to meet in order to justify our bid to become a Center of Development on Nutrition and Dietetics. Our high passing rates in the licensure examination for nutrition-dietetics is one of the strong justifications that we have already met.

Dynamism in the GE program

We continuously looked out for opportunities to inject dynamism into our general education program through the institution of new courses and improvement of existing ones as well as adjustments in its implementation. This year we institutionalized Humanities 3 (Reading film, TV, and the Internet) under the arts and humanities domain. All our GE courses

except those that have just been institutionalized are now offered in the large class mode.

We took part in the UP System GE Council to assess the GE framework and program. It was decided that we will continue to require 15 GE units for each of the three domains (arts and humanities, social sciences and philosophy, mathematics, science and technology) of which 6-9 units/domain will cover courses that the students are free to decide.

Strengthening our growth areas

Curricular program development

• Offering of the BS Agricultural Biotechnology program starting in 2010-2011

• Approval of pollution engineering as a new specialization under the MS Chemical Engineering program

• Streamlining the curriculum of our undergraduate and graduate degree programs in development communication

• Revision of the BS Nutrition curriculum in line with UPLB’s niches and themes under the Instruction, Research, Developement, and Extension (IRDE) Framework

New directions

Enhancing technopreneurship has been one of our focal areas of development. PCASTRD and PCARRD-DOST supported us in projects that promote an entrepreneurial mindset among UPLB students, faculty and REPS, and SUCs; accelerate commercialization of UPLB technologies, and promote the entrepreneurship option among Agricuture, Forestry, and Natural Resources (AFNR) and allied courses students.

We held many conversation activities that aimed to enhance academic teaching in economics. Among the issues that we discussed were food insecurity, stated choice analysis, experimental economics in product valuation and marketing, nutrition, obesity and health policies, using websites as academic homepage, and projections on the need for AFNR human resources in the country.

We brought learning out of the four walls of the classroom by involving our human ecology and nutrition students in the conduct of community profile studies, barangay integrated development and comprehensive land use plans, and in capability building of local nutrition and day care workers.

We successfully reintegrated the Agricultural Credit and Cooperatives Institute from the CPAf to CEM and renamed it as the Institute of Cooperatives and Bio-Enterprise Development or ICOPED.

In response to the fast emerging importance of systems biology as a research area, we set up the UPLB Biomathematics Initiative to foster the conduct of interdisciplinary researches to solve problems in biology and related fields through quantitative means.

We launched an online news platform, the Los Baños Times Online, to establish ourselves in the field of community online journalism.

We reformulated key RDE themes and areas under public affairs to the following: 1) institution, governance and delivery systems; 2) innovation systems for community development/strategies for CD social development and innovations; 3) social development and innovations; and 4) science and technology policy.

We will be establishing the Low Carbon Research and Development Center, which will include a project on lignocellulosic mapping and the Food Engineering Center.

In mathematical sciences and physics, we are revising our core staffing pattern to include emerging specializations (mathematics of

finance, mathematics for the life and social sciences, and biological and environmental physics).

We have provided P1 million to acquire instruments for a modern physics laboratory for applied physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, and mathematics and science teaching students.

A priority project for CY 2010 is the construction of the three-storey Mathematics Building (P60 million). We will convert two large classrooms in the Mathematics Building into air-conditioned mini-lecture halls equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual systems and internet-ready computers.

We are constructing the Information and Technology Building and other priority projects at our laboratory high school, the UP Rural High School, improve its agricultural shed and demonstration area for agriculture classes, subsidize the school’s MOOE, and provide its instructional equipment needs.

S&T Park (STP) accreditation

We continued to work with the local government unit of Los Baños



for its endorsement to the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and with the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region IV-A to complete the boundary survey of the UPLB STP.

We developed and implemented three major proposals for institutional development:

1) “Support for the UPLB Technology Business Incubator (TBI).” This was approved for funding by the DOST on June 2010. The TBI aims to create sustainable enterprises among graduates in agriculture, forestry, ICT, and agribusiness, as well as UPLB researchers to encourage the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.

2) “Feasibility Study on Establishing the Knowledge Enterprise Incubation Center (KEICEN) at the UPLB STP.” Results showed that KEICEN can support 12 incubatees during the first year of operations. The target market-locators at the IT park are IT-oriented companies in the country, start-ups and spin-offs which may be interested in establishing operations in the area.

3) “Establishment of the Information Technology Hub at the UPLB STP.” This is aimed to facilitate the commercialization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) through spin-offs and growth of knowledge enterprises.

Distinctive excellence challenge

We completed infrastructure projects worth P7.42 million to be used in instruction and research in veterinary medicine.

We reformulated key RDE themes and areas under public affairs to the following: 1) institution, governance and delivery systems; 2) innovation systems for community development/strategies for community development; 3) social development and innovations; and 4) science and technology policy.

With the DE grant, our civil engineering faculty participated in various areas of research related to climate change, sanitary engineering, and construction materials engineering and management.

The facilities of the Innovative Engineering Materials Laboratory (InEM) were upgraded, bringing immediate positive impact on the research activities in civil engineering with the implementation of research activities on strength and durability of construction materials.

In the arts and sciences, we

sought to nurture distinctive excellence in the fusion of arts and sciences to bridge the gap triggered by disciplinal boundaries through three components, namely, Sabangan, Dulang and Hugnay.

Sabangan features various disciplinal perspectives and expertise and fosters collaboration through a series of lecture-discussions and collaborative workshops/exhibits. Dulang is a venue where students and faculty members can showcase their thesis or final projects that portray the artistry in a scientific project or the scientific reasons behind an artistic output. Hugnay is the staging of arts-science fusion. It seeks to integrate the different art forms: poetry reading, photography, multi-media performances, modern/street jazz or dances, and film production in staging scientific ideas or texts that are inspired by the principles of science and technology.

Linkages

We have forged linkages through 50 MOAs/MOUs with 48 foreign institutions. Eight of these MOAs were forged during the review period. We played host to 25 foreign exchange students, 8 from Korea in the second semester of SY 2009-2010 and 17 students from Korea (7), Japan (1),

USA (8) and Canada (1) during the first semester of 2010-2011. We sent 15 students on student exchange programs to Michigan State University (2), University of British Columbia in Canada (3), University of Tsukuba in Japan (4), Tokyo University of Agriculture (1), Kyungnam University in Korea (1), Catholic University of Korea (1), and Far East University of Korea (3).

Similarly, linkages with various institutions and universities have been complementing mechanisms for our instruction, research and extension initiatives. We have linkages

with SEARCA (natural resource management trainings, agricultural development conversations and fora, policy advice, microfinance), SANREM (research and trainings), UNDP (research and development), FAO (research on environmental animal health and advocacy), IRRI (research, training, instruction), APN (research), IGBP, IHDP (trainings and conferences), Chiangmai University (workshop, training), Cantho University (instruction, training), Wageningen International (training), World Agroforestry Center (research), and Worldfish (research, publication).



To increase our absorptive capacity, we have implemented the large class size policy. Pursuing this has also shown us avenues for responding to other University problems such as the shortage of seasoned teachers who can effectively teach general education courses, the slow uptake of enrollees in bottleneck courses, and the need for teachers to pursue continuing education, conduct research, and publish their work in reputable publications.

To ensure successful implementation of the large class size format, we poured resources into infrastructure, facilities, human resource development and education activities, and materials development. Among the education activities were the First University-wide Seminar Workshops on Teaching Large Classes on April 12-18 where the principles and techniques of teaching management, administration and assessment, and evaluation of large

classes were taught. We capped the seminar with the Large Class Plenary on May 31.

Incentives for large classes in the amount of P20,000 for the development of lecture materials and course syllabus were made available under the program to faculty members with proven teaching competence and who are capable of developing interactive and self-instructional learning materials to supplement the lecture.

In development communication, we upgraded and optimized the use of key laboratories, classrooms and other

instructional facilities to ensure the success of the large class mode.

In forestry, we are actively sourcing scholarships to provide full support until graduation to deserving scholars enrolled in BS Forestry.

Our civil engineering students will benefit from a P3 million grant to be used for classroom expansion. One of the classrooms can accommodate up to 60 students while the other one can accommodate up to 100 students. We will have increased our capability to hold large classes in industrial engineering with funding of another P3 million for the construction of two classrooms.

IncreasingOur Absorptive Capacity

Public service

Through our public service arm, we conducted and monitored 14 short, non-degree/extension trainings, all of which aimed at capability building of underserved sectors. We also implemented three externally funded long-term projects in educational enhancement and health/nutrition intervention, targeting public school elementary students. We were able to enlist 268 faculty members and

student volunteers who carried out these activities.

Commercialization of mature technologies

Two patents were granted to UPLB, namely, “Method for Extending the Marketable Life of ‘Carabao’ Mangoes” and “Microbial Inoculant for Use as Biofertilizer, Crop Growth Promoter and Biological Control Agent”

Full commercialization of BIO-N. Around 64 BIO-N mixing plants have been established in different regions of the country. A number of licensing agreements with private companies and universities have been forged and there is an on-going negotiation with an Indonesian company to market BIO-N in Indonesia. As of June 2008, BIO-N has generated sales amounting to P30.6 M since it started commercialization in 2002.


Sustaining ourcontributions to nation building

Providing government and industry with high quality graduates

Performance in Licensure Examinations


Commercialization of BIOCON. BIOCON is now commercially produced by TRIBIO Inc. through a licensing agreement with UPLB. As of October-December 2005, royalties amount to P 0.23 M.

Commercialization of MYKOVAM. Adam Farms and Agricultural Resource Management Services Inc. is currently marketing the product. As of 2007, this technology has generated royalties amounting to P .74 M.

Sinta Papaya commercialization. From the renewed franchise agreement with East-West Seed Company, UPLB will benefit from the increase in the price of parent material and a royalty rate of 7%. As of 2007, Sinta Papaya has generated royalties amounting to P1.43 M.

New and improved crop varieties. IPB Var 8, IPB Var 9, IPB Var 11, IPB Var 13.

Other technological breakthroughs

We evaluated the toxicity and mutagenecity of trichosetin, an antibiotic produced from the dual culture of Catharathus roseus Callus

and Trichoderma harzianum. This antibiotic is a potential alternative to vancomycin-intermediate resistant S. aureus (VISA), as well as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA).

The field evaluation of a lahar barrier technology vs. termites is already on its fourth year and so far has been proven to be effective leaving little doubt of its commercial application. Moreover, the University has successfully proven that chicken feathers can be used to fabricate composite panels using cement. The potential for this technology to put to use the millions of kilograms dumped year after year by commercial poultry processing plants is enormous.

The multi-crop pneumatic seeder with fertilizer applicator is a machine that can furrow a prepared field, apply basal fertilizer and seed in one operation. It is mounted to a four-wheel tractor and can be used for planting corn and legumes.

The AMDP mini corn mill consists of the main milling assembly, grit polisher, oscillating screen, and centrifugal cleaning fan. The value-adding potential of the mini corn mill

makes it an important component of village-level corn processing enterprises. A manufacturer from Pila, Laguna is manufacturing the mini corn mill to bid for the requirement of the DA as a component of the Village-type Corn Processing Program.

The AMDP-IAE Windmill for Irrigation of High Value Crops is used to generate power from the wind to pump water for irrigating vegetable crops. An existing tube well is the main source of water. The windmill can pump 135 L/hr with wind gustiness of 2,700fpm, and 6 inches stroke length of the pump. The windmill is currently installed in a high value commercial crops farm in SIlang, Cavite.

Hybrid Rice. We started to commercialize the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC)-approved TGMS-based on two-line varieties, PRUP 7 and PRUP 9, which were developed in cooperation with the Philippine Rice Research Institute.

Corn. Seed production of Obatanpa or IPB Var 6 (NSIC Cn2008-224) now covers 165 hectares, with a

total of 6,572 bags distributed to different regions as of October 2010. Obatanpa has high yield potential, resistance to lodging, excellent ear-fill characteristics, deep kernels, and high lysine content.

Cassava. NSIC also accredited for commercial release an improved cassava variety developed at UPLB. The new NSIC-registered variety, NSIC Cv-47 (Pedigree Code: CG02-01-01; Popular Name: Sultan 12), was recommended for release as an industrial variety following 12 valid tests in seven regional stations for two testing seasons.

Mango. We developed a protocol for the tissue culture of Carabao mango to rapidly propagate it and to improve the traits – thicker skin for stronger resistance against pests, longer shelf life for longer storage, and bigger size for superior eating satisfaction.

Abaca. Abaca with resistance to abaca bunchy top virus (AbBTV) is the first abaca variety developed in the country through conventional breeding, with resistance to the major disease of abaca. This will help in rehabilitating abaca areas previously wiped out by the disease and

therefore will help boost our abaca industry especially the pulp and paper sector.

Papaya. Papaya resistant to papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) is the first papaya variety developed through conventional breeding and will boost papaya production especially in Luzon.

Transgenic Papaya. Papaya with delayed ripening trait and thus, with extended shelf life. Transgenic papaya will help boost our papaya industry because of good quality fruit even on extended transport period.

Dairy. We produced cream cheese from goat’s milk, a technology that has been adopted by commercial dairy farms.

Food Processing. We have perfected the processing of instant ubi, fruit wine and calamansi.

Crop Protection. Our mature technologies include mass-produced parasitoid Trichogramma evanesceus Boucek, released earwigs against corn borer, the Black earwig Chelisoches morio Fabr. against pests of banana and coconut, mass-produced Metarhizium anisopliae/ Beanveria bassina against rice black bug,

leafhoppers and diamond backmoth, Spodoptera nuclear polyhedrosis virus (SNPV) against cutworm, Rapid Test Kit for detection of pesticide residue, butterfly farming and ranching, and mushroom cultivation and growing.

Partnering for technological development

The DA Rural Development Administration of Korea funded a BIOTECH project that aims to improve corn and legume productivity through the use of biofertilizers.

The University is now tapping the vast potentials of algal fuel (Chlorella vulgaris) as a third generation biofuel feedstock. We have developed two variants of a photobioreactor that enables the microalgae to produce large amounts of biomass and usable oil.

With San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corporation, we are conducting a project aimed at manufacturing wood plastics composites that will be used for the production of pallets. We have already optimized the parameters for wood plastics composites using recycled plastics reinforced with rice hull, sludge, and other fibrous materials.



In support to the government’s program on alternative sources of green energy, we have embarked on R & D to package technologies and systems for harvesting and post-harvest mechanization of Jatropha curcas L. Thus, we have established the thermo-physical and mechanical properties of the jatropha fruit and seeds as bases for developing mechanization technologies. We have fabricated a jatropha dehusker, a seed sheller prototype, and a manual jatropha fruit dehusker for small-scale jatropha production.

We have also developed a hand-held corn sheller and a plow-mounted corn seeder for the small-scale corn farmers under the Farmer-Scientist Training Program that has recently been developed into a nationwide program.

Disease indexing, post-entry quarantine, and germplasm conservation and maintenance of sugarcane collections are being undertaken with the Philippine Sugar Research Institute.

With the Luzon Federation of Sugarcane Growers’ Association, we implemented a five-year project entitled “Sugarcane Breeding:

Sugarcane Planters-Researchers Partnership in Developing Sugarcane Varieties for Luzon Areas.”

We implemented seven projects funded by PCIERD-DOST and DA-BAR including the commercialization and packaging of instant ubi powder, wine processing, spray-drying of fruits and vegetables, and thermal processing of food.

Providing technical assistance for government and private sector programs

UPLB hosted the last leg of the sub-regional consultation workshops for the provinces of Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, Rizal and Quezon (CALABARZON) and Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan (MIMAROPA) on the formulation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 on July 26.

In cooperation with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), and the Natural Resources Committee of the House of Representatives, we held the Policy Conference and Workshop

on Restoration/Rehabilitation/ Management of Forestlands Affected by Mining on Oct. 20-21 at the House of Representatives in Quezon City.

We brought to the fore the topic on cooperative insurance and the cooperative insurance system of the country that is considered a revolutionary step for servicing the marginalized small insurance market which mainstream companies has not served since 1974.

We provided technical expertise in our niche areas in the following programs: 1) formulation of the “Sustainable Watershed Development Plan of Bauko, Mt. Province: A Participatory Approach” and 2) “Social Analysis and Settlements Plan, Agriculture Development Master Plan, Casiguran, Aurora.”

We have partnered with Sipag, Ipon at Kaalaman Aming Puhunan sa Kaunlaran (Industriousness, Savings, Skills, our Investment to Progress) - Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement (SIKAP-BIDANI) Development Foundation, a nongovernment institution engaged in providing microfinance assistance, in pilot testing the Participative Nutrition

Enhancement Project (PNEP) in the Municipality of Rizal, Laguna. We have also partnered with prominent foundations like the Zuellig Family Foundation, and the Enrique Zobel Foundation.

With the PNP-Batangas, we conducted a community-based peace and safety program seminar entitled “Engaging Local Communities in Strategic Peace and Safety Program Planning.” The seminar aimed at developing a community action plan for peace and safety as a requisite to local economic growth and development. We implemented the Students’ Transformation and Enrichment for Truth-Values Integration and Promotion (STET-VIP) for 36 officers and members of the Philippine National Police from 27 municipalities and 3 cities of Laguna.

In development communication, we have provided technical assistance to public elementary and high schools, DENR, DA, POPCOM, Philippine Rice Research Institute, CHED-2 Zonal Center, and several UPLB units, in various activities pertaining to environment and food security,

health, and many other development concerns.

Being the premier veterinary medicine educational institution in the country, the government has looked to us for expertise in the field. Thus, we have fielded our experts to serve in committees and subcommittees of government line agencies such as DA, DOST, and CHED.

Our faculty members/researchers in forestry have continuously provided technical assistance to government bodies such as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA), DOST, and DENR.

Notable inputs to government and international bodies that our faculty members/researchers have and will be making are the following: 1) as bureau head, responsible for sourcing development projects worth P5 Billion for the DENR; 2) as resource person in committee meetings of the House of Representatives for the passage of the “Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management Bill;” and 3) as coordinating lead author for the

working group for Chapter 12 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report.

We trained 48 agricultural stakeholders representing local government units, Provincial Agriculture Office, Municipal Planning and Development Office, Municipal Agriculture Office, and State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Ifugao and Benguet to transform them into trainors on climate change vulnerability and in using impact assessment tools that help determine and assess exposure to climate change hazards.

As part of a project to develop spatially explicit tools for monitoring and communicating climate risks around the Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve, we have completed its GPS mapping and created its 3D diorama. The map will indicate the hazardous areas in Mt. Makiling and will also show possible landslide- and flood-prone areas

Our engineering faculty members have provided technical assistance to DA-BAR on biofuels, as resource



persons of the DA and of the PNOC.Under the UPLB-based National

Farmer-Scientist Training Program, 270 corn farmers are now farmer-scientists. New program areas cover Region 8 (with four towns in Leyte and Samar) and Region 9 (three towns in Zamboanga del Norte).

A Memorandum of Understanding between the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental and UPLB has been signed with the aim of helping developing agriculture in the province.

As part of our extension program, we provided technical assistance on herbal medicine and mushroom culture in collaboration with the UP Manila College of Medicine’s Community Health Program in San Juan, Batangas.

We conducted two trainings on seed production of open-pollinated corn for DA corn coordinators, researchers, and technicians from the DA’s regional offices and micropropagation and disease elimination of Musa for the provincial agriculturist and agricultural technicians of Sinait, Ilocos Sur. In Agusan del Norte, trainers including

representatives of local state colleges and universities, government units, and the DA, as well as shippers and staff of the Philippine Ports Authority underwent training courses on postharvest handling of bananas. Meanwhile, LGU staff members and DA extension workers had a short course on postharvest handling of fresh fruits, vegetables and cutflowers.

Influence policy and governance through active policy advocacy

We proposed the National Strategy for Financial Literacy on Microinsurance together with the Department of Finance, German Technical Cooperation, Asian Development Bank, and the Technical Working Group (TWG) members from the private and public sectors.

Our climate change experts conducted vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) assessment to the impacts of climate change in the province of Albay. The results will be useful in coming up with the revised Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of Albay. Research outputs will be presented to the Climate Change Commission by way of advocating for

the inclusion of V&A assessment as a requirement for the preparation of CLUPs.

We were the primary moving force in a symposium entitled “Facing the Challenges: Agenda for Action for the Philippine Agriculture Sector” that presented the highlights of policy papers on current issues besetting the Philippine sector. The policy recommendations from the papers presented in the symposium, dubbed as “Greenbook II” could serve as bases for the government to craft an agenda for action that will increase agricultural productivity and enhance competitiveness of Philippine agricultural and fishery products amidst rural poverty, climate change, and income inequality. Greenbook II will be disseminated to policymakers in the Senate, House of Representatives, and relevant government agencies and offices.

The House of Representatives and Senate invited our agriculture experts as resource persons on proposed bills like the creation of the Philippine Cereal Institution and the Revitalization of Agricultural Extension, and discussions on proposals like

the development of the fruit and vegetable industry in Casiguran, Quezon. We also actively contributed to CHED programs on agricultural education through our membership in the TPAE and other technical working groups.

Some of our researchers/experts served as members of the National Seed Industry Council’s Technical Working Groups on rice; corn and sorghum; field legumes; vegetables; root crops; fruit crops; sugarcane; seed production; seed extension, promotion and marketing; plantation crops; ornamental crops; and fiber crops.

Nine staff members served as Plant Variety Protection Examiners of the Department of Agriculture, while some experts have been tapped as evaluators of research projects funded by the DA’s Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) and DOST’s Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research Development (PCARRD).

Food science experts served as members of the DA-BAR Technical Committee on Applied Biotechnology Research Program, DOST-PCIERD’s National TWG and Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension’s TWG.

We contributed to ensuring peaceful and clean elections in 2009 through DZLB Bantay Halalan, a two-part program - a talk-magazine show and a two-day live coverage of the first automated national elections. The program was also streamed live and it reported 1,754 viewers from 10 countries all over the world.

Establish a mentoring program for other SUCs and private schools in the country

We are now working on reviving the BIDANI network with UPLB as the main hub and SUCs as satellites. So

far, we have had encouraging results and already, some of them have identified pilot areas on which they will collaborate with UPLB.

Development Communication professors have initiated the creation of the Consortium of Development Communication Educators and Practitioners in answer to the need for a professional organization that will promote the field.

We have shared to other SUCs our knowledge in writing articles for publication in refereed journals in workshops conducted for faculty members of the Isabela State University, Cagayan State University, Quirino State University, and Nueva Vizcaya State University.

Through the CHED-sponsored “Adopt-a-School,” we are mentoring the following schools to help improve their teaching and research capabilities: Batangas State University, Southern Luzon State University, and University Rizal System.

We have always been tapped as reviewer of some SUCs in connection with the Licensure Examination for Agriculturists.

We accommodated students from the Quezon National Agricultural School (Malicboy, Pagbilao, Quezon), Nueva Vizcaya State University (Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya), Batangas College of Arts and Sciences (Lipa City), Trace College and the Laguna State Polytechnic University (Los Baños, Laguna), Pampanga Agricultural College, and Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation for on-the-job training (OJT).

The Food Science Cluster (FSC) provided supervisory and technical assistance in eight research studies/projects of students from UP Rural High School, San Pablo National High School, Southern Luzon State University (Quezon) and UP Diliman; and to RIC and agricultural extension workers.



Generating and disseminating novel ideas and research results

We continued to disseminate

information about technologies developed at UPLB. On Jan. 27-31, 2010, we participated in the 2nd Laguna Business and Investment Exposition at the Enchanted Kingdom in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna.

We held the UPLB Technology and Products Exhibit on Oct 9-10 at the EB Copeland Gymnasium as part of the 92nd Loyalty Day and Alumni Homecoming Celebration.

From November 2009 to October 29, 2010, the number of users of UPLB Journals Online ballooned to about 1,000. The abstracts were viewed online more than 18,000 times while nearly 15,000 PDFs downloads have been recorded.

The UPLB Research, Development and Extension portal has been gaining internet exposure. As of review date, there were 280 articles posted in the website, written by the Research Utilization and Dissemination Section staff, UPLB contributors, and journalists covering science, technology, agriculture, and university beats. The website has received nearly 221,000 content hits since its launch. The website has a daily average of 100 readers and a total of 30,000 site visitors (November 2009 - October 2010). About 25% of the website’s traffic is due to direct visits or referral by other internet sites. Content pick-up of other sites from the news service is encouraging. Articles posted in the site were re-posted automatically to blogsites, newsites and other websites.

Our newest web facility, the ‘UPLB Research Videos,’ is an online repository of scientific presentations and discussions of faculty and researchers. The site currently features 25 video presentations, fully edited and synchronized with the presentor’s

slides. The best feature of this website was the availability of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system which enabled the digital content to become citable for use in scientific publications. As of October 2010, the total video views almost reached 10,000.

We trained selected website managers of units conducting research and extension on content management using Joomla!, an open source content management system that enables creation of websites and applications. It is currently the framework behind the websites being developed and deployed by UPLB.

Students and researchers as well as Internet users from across the globe can now watch presentations and discussions on the latest scientific investigations conducted in UPLB through the web. Currently, 17 videos are available with more being prepared for uploading.

To promote UPLB technologies,

services, and events related to research and extension, we published a newsletter, “The UPLB RDE Digest,” which is released every April and October. The digest contains news, articles, and photos which have been featured in the UPLB RDE News Service website, as well as full length features

on research programs, technologies, and others. UPLB RDE Digest Vol 2, No 1 (April) and UPLB RDE Digest Vol 2, No 2 (October) have already been released and distributed.

The newsletter is also available

online in PDF file through a third-party hosting account. As of October 2010, the uploaded newsletters have been viewed/read online more than 2,000 times.

The multimedia DVD entitled “UPLB: The Philippines’ Premier Research University” has been converted and formatted as a digital object for online viewing through the Internet. The digital objects (Chapter 1 to 5) have been viewed nearly 2,000

times. Fifty copies of the DVD were given to partner member agencies of the Southern Tagalog Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium.

We have also assisted in the video documentation of the broadcasts of the Tinig ng Agrikultura sa Barangay (TAB), a 60-minute agriculture magazine show airing at Radyo DLZB 1116. The program disseminates agricultural and developmental information relevant to the present needs of the rural and urban communities, provides communication support to UPLB’s extension programs, and promotes modern agriculture as a viable community development enterprise. The 12-man TAB team won the 2010 PCARRD Professional Broadcast Media Award (3RD place) in the National Symposium on Agriculture and Resources Research and Development (NSARRD) and Awarding Ceremony on November 10, 2010 at the Dusit Thani in Makati City. The TAB broadcasters were recognized for their relentless efforts for wider and faster dissemination of new and appropriate technologies of the Southern Tagalog Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium in the areas of food, agriculture, biotechnology, engineering, and other developmental concerns.

From November 2009 – November 2010, we endorsed 141 ISI-Indexed journal articles: 92 were locally published while 47 were internationally published. A book and a book section were endorsed for International Publication Award.

Our database on intellectual productivity documented a total of 472 publications: of the total 119 articles published in refereed journals, 71 were published in local refereed journals, and 48 in international refereed journals. There were also 40 books published.

As part of a mentoring program, we held the “Developing and Packaging Successful Research Proposals” on June 7 and 8 for young researchers who will form the core of our research manpower in the future. This will strengthen our capacity in developing research proposals that can generate funding. We have also started a comprehensive training program on patenting with the seminar-workshop “WYSK about Patents.” It focused on the process of patent search and provided participants the knowledge and tools needed to determine patentability of inventions.

We have also been holding a series of workshops on Mentoring on Scientific Paper Writing for Publications since 2006 up to the present. This is for the benefit especially of those among the constituents who want to publish their papers in refereed journals.

We conducted blended training workshops entitled “Content Management System” on Oct. 14 and “Instructional Design and Content Development” on Oct. 15-22 to impart to the participants knowledge on instructional design and content development, and teach the use of Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE). MOODLE is a content management system designed to

help educators create effective online learning communities. These training workshops will enable the participants to implement blended learning and manage their courses in the web.

A total of 259 papers were presented in international (47) and

local conferences (212). Fifty papers were published in proceedings of conferences: 34 of which were national in scope while 16 were international conferences. About four (4) other publication forms were published.

The Philippine Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering ), Vol. VIII, No. 1, was declared by a team of technical experts as a CHED accredited research journal.

We also published the Philippine Agricultural Mechanization Journal which is a semi-technical bi-annual publication and a non-refereed journal.


2010 Intellectual Productivity Database


Some of the books published include:

1) “Farm Management: Approaches and Tools in a Changing Environment” by CEM-DAE provides a standardized source of farm management knowledge to those interested in farm management.

2) “An Assessment of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program and its Impacts on Rural Communities: Micro Perspective” by CEM-DAE; and

3) “Economics: An Introduction “ – to be used in introductory and intermediate economics courses.

Four quarterly issues of the Philippine Agricultural Scientist (PAS), an ISI-accredited journal publication, have been published in 2010. Included here were 41 full-length articles and 13 research notes.

Some of our experts served as editor and authors in the book on “Poultry Production in the Tropics”, while a faculty member served as writer for the manual, “Duck Egg Production,” which was published by B-Meg. Research and extension personnel contributed to the PCARRD publications including a booklet on “Profitability of 25-dairy cow module” with a “Fact Sheet” and a leaflet on “Investment Brief.” The FSC produced a chapter entitled ‘Fruit Processing’ in the book, “The Mango Botany, Production and Uses.”

Resource generation for R&D

We generated a total of P233,471 million in research and development funds in 2010 . This was 17.6 M (7%) lower than in 2009. This was due to the decrease in funds from the government funding agencies of P64.9 M (-32.3%). However, there was an increase in funds from international funding agencies (101%) and the local /private organizations (71%). The total funds reflected in 2010 included the combined R&D funds monitored by OVCRE and the UPLB-FI.

UPLB got the highest research grant of P 106,925 M from government agencies for 172 projects. International organizations allocated research grants for two projects; and local/private organizations provided for three projects. Among the government agencies, PCASTRD provided the highest project support (P 21,857 M) followed by PCARRD-DOST (P18,990 M). Among the international organizations, International Atomic Energy Agency gave the highest R&D fund grant of P 290,000; from local/private organization, the Federation of Free Farmers gave a grant of P 35,000.

Strengthening our “Town-and-Gown” partnership

We held a seminar on climate change and disaster risk management with Dr. Carlos Primo David, professor at the National Institute of Geological Services; Dr. Giovanni Tapang, national chairperson of Samahang Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya and associate professor at the National Institute of Physics; and Forester Jess Javier, head of the Forestry Division of the Forestry Management Bureau. This was attended by representatives of LGUs around UPLB.

We have supported the LB municipality through program collaboration and provision of technical assistance to the Laguna de Bay-Mt. Makiling Watershed Development and Management and the Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve Protection and Ecosystem and Solid Waste Management. We have also demonstrated strong solidarity with LB by participating in the 395th Los Baños Foundation Day celebration and in distribution of relief goods under the Sagip Kapamilya Program of a TV network.

Combined Total R&E Funds 2007-2010 (in ‘100)*

Research Funds

Through our Adopt-a-School Program, we provided support to the Los Baños Central Elementary School by setting up exhibits, donating class-produced learning materials, and participating in a clean-up project.

We launched an online news platform, the Los Baños Times Online (www.lbtimes.ph) in April. Aside from establishing the University in the field of community online journalism, the Los Baños Times Online will enable different local government offices of Los Baños to disseminate updates in their respective jurisdiction.

We also continued to maintain Radyo DZLB as one of our extension arms. DZLB regularly airs 13 community-based radio programs developed by partners from different government and nongovernment organizations in the province.

Leader Ka K!, a youth magazine program, on the other hand, was awarded a special citation “for encouraging the youth to take direct action in effecting change and progress in the country” in the 32nd Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) held on October 13 at the University of Sto. Tomas.

We are now validating a protocol for rapid assessment and monitoring of LGUs’ compliance to the provisions of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.

We supported the initiatives of the local government units by providing technical assistance in carrying out the Magna Carta of women and its institutional mechanisms in planning and advocacy work.

We conducted a seminar and an outreach activity on rabies and responsible pet ownership, the latter in partnership with the NRCP.

We provided knowledge enhancement training to public school teachers in evolutionary biology on April 22.

We provided technical assistance on corn production-processing mechanization to the Calamba Upland Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (CUFAMCO). An upland barangay in Calamba also benefited from a package of technologies developed by our agricultural engineers. These technologies are the AMDP upland power tiller with steering clutch mechanism, AMDP manual and motorized corn sheller, UPLB hand

jabber, rolling injection planter, forage cutter, and the UPLB corn-cob-fed furnace corn dryer.

A significant positive impact of these interventions was that the farmers have realized the benefits of mechanizing farm operations. Another off-shoot of the AMDP intervention in Calamba was the installation of a drip irrigation system in a small-scale corn-based farm in Kay-anlog, Calamba City. The project gave us an opportunity to showcase how drip irrigation system works in the area and hopefully make other farmers adopt the technology. We have also formulated a soil and water conservation plan for one of the farms in the area.

To strengthen our “town-and-gown” partnership, we provided technical expertise to science students from different high schools in Los Baños and San Pablo City, and allow the use of the IBS facilities and resources for the conduct of the students’ science projects.

Meanwhile, we continued to implement the Community Aerobics every Saturday at 6:00 AM. The target beneficiaries are residents of Los Baños and neighboring towns.



The CA has an Out-of-School Youth Program in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Municipal Agriculture and Fisheries Council (MAFC) of Los Baños. This includes a seminar series on “Basic Agriculture Concepts and Practices for Next Generation Farmers of Los Baños” aimed at generating awareness and appreciation on the arts, science and business of agriculture; encouraging the next generation of agriculturists to sustain the agricultural industry in the community; providing practical and technical know-how on the various facets of agriculture; and organizing the participants into a cohesive and committed group of agriculture advocates and practitioners.

Fruit planting materials were donated to the Municipality of Los Baños and to Bgy. Paciano Rizal, Bay, Laguna for tree planting activities. Moreover, assorted vegetable seeds were provided to Barangay San Antonio, Los Baños Laguna for distribution to participants of the backyard and community gardening activity of the barangay.

Promoting the TEAM spirit

We held the Palarong UPLB 2010 on Jan. 28-31 with the theme “Palarong UPLB Attaining T.E.A.M. Work Through Sports.” We also showed team spirit when we banded together to overwhelm the IRRI sports contingent in a dual meet on July 24. On December 8, we held the Faculty Follies, an annual program where faculty members, staff and students unite and stage performances. Over

the past months, UPLB has also seen many sports competitions, especially marathons that have been held in the campus. Our faculty members and staff and students have consistently participated in these events, some of which were sponsored or co-sponsored by the University. Through all these events, the UPLB spirit of oneness and unity has never before been made more important than it was in the past.

We have also been practicing information sharing among the faculty and REPS to update everyone on developments in the field of human nutrition. Moreover, brown bag sessions have occasionally been held in some units and junior faculty members have been mentored by ensuring their participation in departmental instruction, research, and extension activities.


StrengtheningTEAM Governance


Harness our IT infrastructure to continue streamlining administrative processes

Memoranda and announcements are now being sent electronically after the Office of the Chancellor issued Memorandum No. 041 directing the same.

UPLB has gone mobile with the use of a service provider’s communications technology, specifically its infoboard web-based platform, to make use of various SMS facilites with different functions and capabilities to cater to the needs of our constituents. These include providing general information, advisories, and announcements to pre-registered subscribers, and a feedback system.

We video conferenced the UPLB centennial lectures that were delivered by our centennial fellows, as well as, the 2010 UPLB Commencement Program and the UP President Nominees Forum. We are maintaining Wi-Fi Internet access in the following locations: ICS, CDC, Carillon, New EE Building, UPLB Main Library, ACCI Auditorium, ADCS (Villegas Hall), Hall, and CEC.

We continue to peer with the UP Diliman VOIP server for both incoming and outgoing calls and for direct outgoing call to other Metro Manila areas. Peering with DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) has also provided us with faster Internet access through an additional 2-6 mbps to our existing Internet bandwidth. Continued peering with DOST-Asti has also enhanced our research and academic networks with UP Diliman, Asia-Pacific Advance Network, Internet 2, GEANT, RedClara, and TEIN.

To facilitate our bid for streamlined systems, we

have conducted free training courses in the use of our Document Tracking System for 176 users, Ubuntu for 31 users, and Joomla! For 28 content managers.

Administrative EfficiencyImproving

We have implemented the project “Transforming Marginal Uplands into Productive Areas through Planting of Non-Traditional Indigenous Biofuel and Timber Species” that aims to establish and demonstrate the economic, financial, environmental, and social feasibility of a mixed biofuel and timber plantation using indigenous non-traditional species in marginal upland areas.

To preserve the remaining resources of the UP Sierra Madre Land Grant, we conducted the DBP Forest Project entitled “Watershed Rehabilitation and Protection of the UP Sierra Madre Land Grant.” This project aims to protect the remaining natural forest, encourage non-destructive/pro-environment land uses in secondary

forests, and promote sustainable land uses/practices in deforested and areas. Around 144 hectares have already been planted with indigenous and ecologically important tree species, particularly high-valued dipterocarps for rehabilitation. Nurseries have been established near the field station to ensure good quality planting materials.

We have ventured into the cultivation of citronella (Cymbopogon spp) to generate income from citronella essential oil and to increase the vegetative cover in some areas of the LQLG. We started with 5 ha and will expand by 20 ha. The annual net revenues for each hectare is P0.38 million assuming a quarterly harvest of 42,000 kg raw grass/year.

In line with our stewardship of the Makiling Forest Reserve, we continue to conduct programs to demonstrate appropriate restoration technologies to maintain the ecological integrity of watersheds, specifically, indigenous tree seedling production, reforestation/plantation establishment and development, and maintenance of experimental and demonstration areas. One other program is aimed at enhancing the people’s understanding, appreciation and conservation of mountain biodiversity through the management of the Makiling Botanic Garden.

We have also been conducting a special program, specifically a youth summer program for MFR conservation and development, and an


Establishing a Sustainable Resource Base


environmental education project that includes an awareness campaign, tree planting, film showing, and community broadcasting.

Another program is aimed at executing plans and activities to protect, regulate use, and uphold control of the MFR. This involves monitoring and forest patrolling to ensure law enforcement and filing of court cases against violators. We are also conducting a mountain information and institutional development program to establish and maintain databases, and review and implement policies pertaining to conservation. To augment our budget, we establish linkages and collaboration to implement RDE projects on Philippine mountain ecosystems. Lastly, we control the entry of illegal settlers, but at the same time, implement a program to promote the socio-economic development of mountain communities.

In coordination with the various college clusters and other UPLB units, the CA rehabilitated the AgriPark as a potential income-generating and self-sustaining project. The opening of the ADSC Meat Shop where various locallyprocessed meat products are sold and toll processing in the dairy plant and analytical service laboratories served as sources of income for the Animal and Dairy Sciences Cluster. The FSC has three

income-generating projects on instant ubi powder, fruit wines and calamansi juice.

For the period July 2009 to September 2010, our income from staff housing occupancy fees and private housing and allied agencies’ land use rental amounted to P5,838,343.07. As approved by the BOR in 2008, 60% of the amount is allotted for maintenance of the housing units and other operating expenses and 40% will be turned over to the UPLB Housing Trust Fund. We have therefore invested P1,884,965 for capital build-up in the UPLB Housing Trust Fund. To date, the University has a total of 258 staff housing units, 76 of which underwent repairs in 2009-2010 using some of the construction materials bought with money from this fund.

With BOR approval at its 1261st meeting, we created the UPLB Student Housing Trust Fund to which income of the SHD will be remitted and part of which will be used to fund major repairs and construction of new dormitories. Three dormitories were repaired and opened for occupancy in the 1st semester of SY 2010. These include the ATI and ACCI dormitories.

To provide better health services, we had some hospital equipment and the University Health Service building repaired. We also had a

generator house built. Funding came from collections of the UHS including accounts receivable and payment of services rendered to agencies outside UPLB.

Meanwhile, we have entered into

a lease agreement with the 7-Eleven 24-hour convenience store for a portion of the ground floor of the SU building. We have also improved and refurbished our bowling lanes to encourage more constituents to patronize the sports facilities at the basement of the SU building.

To stem wastage of resources and promote conservation, we have strictly adhered to the limited use of office air conditioners from 9AM to 4PM and have closely monitored the maintenance of street lights. We have also upgraded our pump houses to new units that are more efficient and use less electricity. In designing new buildings, we have been proactive and have pushed for the use of green architecture.

As a cheaper alternative to outsourcing, in-house architects have been designing our new buildings, reducing the architectural fee which represents 7% of the project cost. Annually, we spend around P2.5 million for the salaries of architects, engineers, and autocad operators who are hired on contractual basis to do the in-house architectural designs

and construction supervision. These contractual employees, however, have done the following jobs that would have cost much more than the amount paid to them.

UPLB saved P48,267,439.37 from architectural fees and P397,490.77 from contractor’s profit and taxes in one year since the design and administration of various projects were done in-house. Compared to the P2.5 million salaries paid to the contractual employees, the University saved around P40 million. We have also been aggressively adopting the “by administration” option in conducting repairs and minor construction work to save on contractors’ fees.

We have purchased tools and equipment worth P1,448,994.93 to improve the delivery of our maintenance function. The use of proper tools and equipment shorten working time and enable us to save on human resource cost.

To improve our electrical system, we have converted 14 units of indoor transformers with low secondary voltage, replaced creosoted wooden primary electrical poles with concrete poles. To come up with baseline information towards adopting energy

conservation measures, we have installed electric meters in buildings in the campus.

As part of our efforts in stewardship of our resources, we have continued to implement the UPLB Termite Management Program to monitor UPLB buildings and properties and implement preventive measures such as using soil barrier treatment and conducting above ground spot treatments. We treated 44 academic and administrative buildings for a total perimeter of 6,495 lineal meters. We also conducted preventive treatment for newly constructed structures and regular demolition operations of termite mounds.

For check and balance, we had been assiduously conducting internal audit despite the limitations of human resource at the Internal Control Office. During the year under review, we audited and examined the operations of the following income generating units and activities: Dairy Training and Research Institute, Business Recreation and Services Unit, Stickers and Ticket issuance, Soil Test Kit and Soil Testing, BIOTECH Water Analysis, University Health Service, dormitories, and the National Seed Foundation.

In compliance with the new UP Charter, we have actively been consolidating our land resources and ensured that these are properly documented. We have assigned a full time staff to facilitate the titling of the following UPLB properties: RS-1019 – 364.472 ha. at the lower campus; PSU 2053 – 32.84 ha. at the UPCO area up to the CFNR gate, Limnological Station- 4.08 ha., and three farm lots with a total area of 9.02 ha in Maahas. The request for titling of the above properties are now with the DENR Region IV-A for evaluation and awaiting the certification/clearance from DOH and DPWH.

Our public service arm, the Pahinungod, was able to generate approximately P1,313,844 from proposals to private funding institutions and through resource sharing arrangements with local governments and community partners.

UPLB has continued its partnership with the locators of the Science and Technology Park. From January to November 2010, the CTTE’s earnings from the lease of locators amounted to PhP 1,299,514.49.


Comparison of Project Expense when Conducted by Contract and by Administration


Upgrade and strengthen our academic support system for our students and faculty

The CTTE proposed revisions and new policies related to intellectual property and technology commercialization which were presented to the UPLB Management Committee last September 23, 2010.

These proposals were the following:

• Policy on Royalty Rate and Royalty Sharing

• Policy on Invention Disclosure through the Invention/ Patent Agreement

• Policy on Paper Presentation and Evaluation for Patentable Inventions

The CTTE is currently finalizing

the policies based on the comments and suggestions of the MANCOM. The proposal on royalty rates and royalty sharing is being finalized for public

consultation among researchers and other constituents of the university.

Likewise, the MANCOM agreed that the invention patent agreement will be required for new employees only. In addition, evaluation of research papers by the Intellectual Property Office for presentation in scientific conferences was agreed to be voluntary only. However, the IPO will still render

assistance for those researchers who want their papers to be evaluated for patentability prior to presentation.

Scholarships and financial assistance

We administered a total of P2,189,566 for the two semesters during the period. This includes scholarship coursed through UP Diliman. State subsidies in tuition fees

Promotingan Enabling Environment

were enjoyed by 2,750 in the Second Semester of SY 2009-2010 and 3,150 in the First Semester of SY 2010-2011. Data show that most of our STFAP grantees belong to the lower brackets, specifically 5-8 and C-E1.

During the period, 1,726 of our students availed themselves of the student assistantship program of the University to receive total salaries of P4,079,390.20. A total of 3,932 availed themselves of tuition loan, emergency loan, and CHED SAFE loan that aggregated at P78,123,501.45.

Counseling and testing

Over the three terms, 10,096 availed themselves of counseling and testing services, specifically counseling and consultation (3,611), group guidance (3,562), psychological assessment (1,255), readmission (740), tutorial (86), graduate placement (529), and extension service (313).

We held the Summer Bridge Program to prepare our incoming freshmen students for their college studies in UPLB, especially the ones who scored low in mathematics and English in the UPCAT. We also helped prepare our graduates for the world of work through a pre-employment seminar and brought together prospective employers for a job fair in which many of our graduates participated.

By way of welcoming the new freshmen and preparing them for life in UPLB, we held pre-college orientation, a parent’s orientation, and the opening convocation. We also celebrated the crystal anniversary of the STET-VIP, a program that originated at OSA.

Student organizations and activities

To balance academic life, we allow our students to engage in extra-curricular activities within the bounds

of University rules and regulations. Majority of our student organizations are academic in nature while the rest are varsitarian, religious, cultural, sorority/fraternity, civic, and sports. Students implemented various activities depending on their group’s advocacies or the reason for their alliance.

Improved facilities and services

We opened a new Veterinary Pathology Resource Facility, the first of its kind in the country, to allow more accurate veterinary diagnosis. This was made possible through a partnership with the Veterinary Comparative Pathology Society of the Philippines, Philippine Veterinary Medical Association-USA, the Charles Louis Davis Foundation, the UPCVM Alumni Association, and the UPLB administration.

Our veterinary students will enjoy longer library hours and more

resources with the increase in the number of journal subscriptions, computer units used for internet/ OPAC, journal online access, and online library database.

Students in human ecology now benefit from a bigger reading room as well as new acquisitions that were donated by alumni. To date, the reading room has a total acquisition of 7,987 reading/reference materials and is equipped with 7 computers for library automation and digitization and user’s access to e-journals, LANTEEAL, and e-books.

We refurbished dormitories and classrooms with a budget of P30 million. Also in the works are the construction of two new dormitories with an allotment of P60 million. One will be a three-storey unit while the other one will be a clustered type facility to accommodate 190 and 380 students, respectively.



Among the dormitories that we repaired are the newly turned over dormitories from the Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) of the Department of Agriculture and the ACCI. Both facilities increase our student dormitory capacity by 213 slots, 150 for ATI and 63 for ACCI.

The University provided comprehensive health care services primarily to the UPLB constituents and to nearby communities. This year, the UHS received confirmation of its accreditation as a Level II hospital. It has 48 accredited consultants-specialists, eight medical officers, and has extended consultation hours for patients from 8 AM to 5 PM daily.

We have also provided 13 health education lectures and counselling to a total of 77 people on self-care and self-monitoring of capillary blood glucose, lifestyle modification, detecting diabetes, and proper care of wounds.

UPLB implemented the UPLB Quit Smoking Support (QuitsS) Program to lay the groundwork for achieving a safe, healthy, and smoke free UPLB. We have conducted focused group discussions for the QuitsS and professional counselling to the

would-be quitters under the Smoking Cessation Program. In 2010, three Quit Smoking Seminars and Counseling Sessions were conducted to 55 participants. Fifty percent of those who enrolled for counselling had successfully quit smoking in 8 weeks after seven counselling sessions.

We have also improved our water system and refurbished lecture halls for the large classes. We opened the Edwin Bingham Copeland Gym, a three-storey gymnasium that also houses classrooms for human kinetics classes and other sports facilities.

Administrative control and supervision of the Student Housing Division has been transferred from OSA to UHO through Administrative Order No. 065 dated May 5, 2010, for a more focused coordination, planning, and implementation of housing plans and programs.

To strengthen governance of the University’s student housing provisions, we created an ad hoc committee through Administrative Order No. 126 to review the UPLB student dormitory policies, rules, regulations and fees. We have conducted three consultation meetings

with dorm residents and dorm heads to ultimately propose changes in dorm policies. Further, we have closed down Unit 1 of Men’s Dorm as the Campus Planning and Development Office (CPDO) has rendered an evaluation that it is already a fire and safety hazard.

UP President Emerlinda R. Roman

approved the request of the DAM for funding of P6 million pesos for the renovation of the DAM building. Moreover, the amount (P18 million) committed through Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri for the building of the CEM Rural Economic Development and Renewal Energy Center has finally been turned over to UPLB, thus construction will commence soon.

Meanwhile, the University has already bid and awarded the contract for the construction of a new student dormitory (P23.87 million), a gen-set house for the new administration offices (P1.0 million), and the supply, delivery and installation of a new elevator system (P3.5 million) and a 500KVA gen-set (P2.39 million).

We have tried to make the Christmas celebration of our constituents and townspeople of the

neighboring areas an eventful one by putting up a giant Christmas tree, a life-size nativity scene, and of Santa Claus and his reindeers. We also held the Paskuhan sa Park to provide Christmas entertainment through performances by various groups. We also held the traditional Parolan on Dec. 17.

Improving campus peace and security

We have beefed up campus security by recruiting 11 new members of the University Police Force. We also continue to employ CSBs who complement the work of the UPF in maintaining peace and order in the campus. We installed street lights from Pili Drive going to IPB road and the APEC building to enhance security in the area.

Campus beautification and environment sanitation and conservation

We have initiated measures to rehabilitate Molawin Creek, a tributary of the Laguna Lake which traverses the UPLB campus through the Macrophyte Biosorption Technology. A 1996 study had found the Molawin Creek containing toxic heavy metals and dissolved substance. Rehabilitation efforts use a root mat to filter out floating solids and dissolved substances, reducing the creek’s pollutant load. Beautification projects have also been implemented at the Molawin Creek with the planting of Mussaenda varieties in cooperation with senior citizens of Mayondon in Los Baños and Generika Drugstore personnel. Members of Bantay Bayan, UP-REPSS and the PPMSO Personnel and Riverside Community have also pitched in to clean up the Molawin

Creek. Pahinungod volunteers and members of the Scientia Consortia Animales have led in information campaigns for environmental sanitation and conservation as well as using artwork to promote environmental protection.

Our alumni have been helping us in our bid to transform the UPLB campus into a more beautiful campus. They have specifically helped us refurbish landmarks that dot the campus. These landmarks, mostly portals of the first few buildings that we had but where damaged by the war or gave way to modern structures, dot the UPLB campus and make our landscape uniquely beautiful compared to other universities in the Philippines. Among the portals that have been refurbished are the Poultry Portal and the Languages and Humanities Portal.



We launched the UPLB Centennial Lecture Series (CLS), tapping renowned individuals who have made a difference in their respective fields to speak on various topics on the theme “Visions and Pathways of Change: The UPLB of the Future.” The CLS is one of the activities undertaken by UPLB to map out the future of the University.

We have involved UPLB professors in mapping out our future as a University. UPLB has approved 80 professorial chairs and 30 faculty grants to harness the varied expertise of the faculty to focus on the University itself and how the faculty can contribute to address the concerns of external reviews.

The theme for the centennial professorial chairs is “Revitalizing, Strengthening, and Re-conceptualizing UPLB for the Next Century” with subthemes on administration and governance; curricular reforms;

resources, arts and culture; food security and food safety; alternative energy, environment and natural resources; and other areas like nanotechnology and extension.

The faculty grant, on the other hand, aimed to provide incentives for faculty members who developed instructional materials such as lecture syllabi, laboratory manuals, and others.

Faculty grants had been awarded for courses in agriculture, economics, biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering science, food science, forestry, human ecology, human kinetics, humanities, microbiology, natural science, and veterinary medicine.

The Alumni Plaza, an 8,000-sqm park near the College of Veterinary Medicine, was inaugurated and with

it, the Ani sculpture by visual artist Sandra Torrijos. Ani is a modern interpretation of the University’s last 100 years, from its humble origins to a dynamic institution. The Alumni Plaza also encompasses the area where the Centenary Carillon and the gazebo stand.

UPLB honored the following with Hibiscus hybrid named after them: PEZA Director-General Lilia de Lima; and journalist Domini Torrevillas.

CelebrateOur Centennial Years

UPLB had three BPI Science Award recipients in 2010: Ma. Ivy dela Cruz, BS Chemical Engineering; John Carlo Malabad, BS Biology, and Nathaniel Carolina, BS Chemistry.

The UPLBAA in cooperation with UPLB held the Grand Alumni Centennial Ball in honor of Class 2010 on April 22.

The CVM launched its centennial commemorative book “UP College of Veterinary Medicine: 100 Years of Distinctive Excellence (1908-2008).” The book chronicles the development of CVM through 100 years and accounts for its accomplishments in instruction, research and extension, the brief history of its now ISI-indexed Philippine Journal of Veterinary Medicine, its collection of art works, and charts its future direction.

Step up our fund campaign

With the celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve and the 50th year since it was transferred under UP administration, we launched the MakiLingap Project or the Mount Makiling Centennial Stewardship Campaign to attract stewardship commitments from private individuals,

corporations, and foundations. Isuzu Philippines Corporation is one of the first to respond. It adopted a 13-ha. portion of the Dipterocarp Arboretum at the MBG. It will plant 300 trees of 13 native dipterocarp tree species, refurbish a 1.3 km walkway inside MBG, and donate site markers, tree labels, and nature interpretation boards.

We were the recipients of the largesse of the Global-Asia Resource Initiative Foundation, Inc. which donated a brand new van that will become an ambulatory clinic for our extension activities in veterinary medicine especially in the anti-rabies campaign in Los Banos.


The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) turned over new structures donated to UPLB for the MBG. The new structures are the Nature Conservation Education and Ecotourism Center that now houses the MBG office, ticket booth, rainforest diorama, seminar room, and a 100-seat theatre for visitor information and audio-visual presentation. The second building is the Pavilion, a 330-sqm multi-purpose hall for social functions and special events.

We continued to receive donations under the Make it UPLB! Fund campaign. Donations totaled $24,530 and P819,232.24.

BOARD OF REGENTSHon. Emmanuel Y. Angeles, Chairman, Commission on Higher Education I Hon. Emerlinda R. Román, Vice Chairman I Hon. Manuel A. Roxas II, Chairman, Senate Committee on Education I Hon. Cynthia Villar, Chair, House Committee on Higher Education I MEMBERS: Hon. Abraham F. Sarmiento, Hon. Nelia T. Gonzalez, Hon. Francis C. Chua I Hon. Clodualdo E. Cabrera, Staff Regent I Hon. Alfredo E. Pascual, Alumni Regent I Hon. Judy M. Taguiwalo, Faculty Regent I Hon. Cory Alyssa Co, Student Regent

UP SYSTEM OFFICIALSDr. Emerlinda R. Román, President I Dr. Amelia P. Guevara, VP for Academic Affairs I Prof. Edgardo G. Atanacio, VP for Planning and Finance I Dr. Arlene A. Samaniego, VP for Administration I Prof. Armin B. Sarthou, Jr., VP for Development I Dr. Isabelita O. Reyes, VP for Public Affairs I Prof. Theodore O. Te, LLB, VP for Legal Affairs I Dr. Lourdes E. Abadingo, Secretary of the University and of the Board of Regents

UPLB ADMINISTRATORSDr. Luis Rey I. Velasco, Chancellor I Dr. Rita P. Laude, Vice Chancellor for Instruction I Dr. Enrico P. Supangco, Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension I Dr. Ruben D. Tanqueco, Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development I Dr. Roberto F. Rañola, Vice Chancellor for Administration I Dr. Virginia R. Cardenas, Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs I Dr. Cecilio R. Arboleda, Executive Director, UPLB Foundation Inc. I Prof. Moises A. Dorado, Asst. to the Vice Chancellor, OVCRE I Dr. Grace D. de Ocampo, Asst. to the Vice Chancellor,OVCI I Dr. Fernando C. Sanchez, Jr., Asst. to the Vice Chancellor, OVCPD I Dr. Elpidio M. Agbisit, Asst. to the Vice Chancellor, OVCCA I Dr. Florinia E. Merca, Director, Office of Institutional Linkages I Prof. Ma. Stella C. Tirol, Director, Office of Public Relations I Dr. Vivian A. Gonzales, Director, Office of Student Affairs I Dr. Myrna G. Carandang, University Registrar I Dr. Emmanuel Rodantes G. Abraham, Assistant to the Chancellor and Director, Office of Alumni Relations (Until May 2010) I Dr. Mimosa C. Ocampo, Director, Office of Alumni Relations I Atty. Damcelle Torres-Cortes, Assistant to the Chancellor

COLLEGE DEANSDr. Domingo E. Angeles, College of Agriculture I Dr. Asuncion K. Raymundo, College of Arts and Sciences I Dr. Cleofe S. Torres, College of

Development Communication I Dr. Flordeliza A. Lantican, College of Economics and Management I Dr. Arsenio N. Resurreccion, College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology I Dr. Rex Victor O. Cruz, College of Forestry and Natural Resources I Dr. Sue Liza C. Saguiguit, College of Human Ecology I Dr. Agnes C. Rola, College of Public Affairs I Dr. Conrado A. Valdez, College of Veterinary Medicine I Dr. Oscar B. Zamora, Graduate School I Dr. Maria Victoria O. Espaldon, School of Environmental Science and Management

UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS 2010

THE 2010 ANNUAL REPORT TEAMDr. Luis Rey I. Velasco I Atty. Damcelle Torres-Cortes I Ms. Olga C. Lomboy I Prof. Ma. Stella C. Tirol, Editor I Ms. Josephine M. Bo, Writer I Mr. Eisen Bernard V. Bernardo, Layout Artist I Photographs by: Simplicio Veluz, Florante Cruz, Nicetas Araguas, Mario Maningas, Eisen Bernard V. Bernardo, Rey Angelo P. Nasino, Edmund Centeno, and Romeo Estimado

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The UPLB Annual Report Team would like to thank the members of the UPLB Management Committee, the Deans and their teams for the reports that provided/contributed to the contents of the 2010 UPLB Annual Report.

2010 uplb annual report

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