Org rooms reshuffled for new academic year

The Office of Student Activities (OSA) announced early May that organizations currently housed in the Manuel V. Pangilinan Center for Student Leadership (MVP-CSL) would be reassigned to different rooms. OSA Director Christopher Castillo said there were several reasons behind the room reassignments. Some of these include accommodating newly accredited organizations and an increase in valid requests of some organizations to transfer rooms. The general parameters of the room assignments were that the rooms of organizations belonging to the same cluster are located beside each other, and that the two organizations that share a room belong to the same cluster. According to Castillo, this is the second wave of reassignments in the last five years. Pauline V. Miranda

ES Dept a major participant in P20-M project

A collaboration to study and protect underwater biodiversity in the Philippines was forged last May 14, with a financial grant of approximately P20 million from the United Kingdom’s Darwin Initiative Project. The program, entitled “Responding to fish extirpations in global epicenter of marine biodiversity,” will be a joint venture of the university’s Environmental Science Department, Haribon Foundation and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Study sites include Palawan, Bohol, Polillo Island, Lanuza Bay, Verde Island Passage and Danajon Bank. Among others, the program aims to study fish and coral life, make policy recommendations and intensify resource management in select areas. Jose C. Cua