National scientist Dr. Angel Chua Alcala National scientist Dr. Angel Chua Alcala passed away on Wednesday afternoon at a Dumaguete city hospital in at
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DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – National Scientist Dr. Angel C. Alcala passed away on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 1, in a hospital in this capital city at the age of 94.
Alcala, considered the “father” of marine protected areas (MPAs), was the vice chairperson of the Sillima
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LOS BAÑOS, Laguna A new gumamela hybrid was named “Leonor Magtolis Briones” in honor of the secretary of the Department of Education. The University of the Philippines-Los Banos (UPLB) named its new gumamela hybrid after Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones as part of the university's Women in Public Service series, a…
At 80, Briones leads the largest bureaucracy with hundreds of thousands of personnel and millions of students.
• ‘They say I am already old but I believe I have the youngest ideas. There is no correlation between the state of my knees and the state of my brain,’ she said.
• Believing that education must continue even amid a pandemic, she motivated key officials of DepEd to come up with the Basic Education – Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP).
• Briones served as Vice-President for Administration and Finance of the University of the Philippines System. Before she was appointed in 2016, she was chair of the Silliman University Board of Trustees, and Regent and Chair-Designate of the Universidad de Manila. She also served as Secretary to the Commission on Audit and served as treasurer of the Philippines.