Gapanense
graduates magna cum laude in the US
Jadi Nell Padua Macasaquit,
son of Engr. Jessie Milad Cabatuando Macasaquit and Daisy Padua Macasaquit,
a nurse, both of Gapan City, graduated from the University of Rhode Island
(URI) with a Psychology degree, magna cum laude, last May 23, 2010
in rites held at the university's main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island.
Next year, Jadi plans to
attend one of the best Ivy League schools in the United States -- Brown
University -- to pursue the PhD (direct) program. For now, he plans to
visit family and friends in New Zealand where the Macaquit family is based
and continue to work for the URI as student assistant to the associate
dean of Psychology.
Jadi is the oldest grandchild
of Enolita 'Aling Baby' Tinio Milad (deceased) of the old Baby's Bazaar
in Gapan City. He was born in Good Samaritan Hospital in Cabanatuan City
and went to pre-school in Cabanatuan and in Calaba, San Isidro for his
first grade. He and his two siblings spent their early lives in Gapan in
the house between the old Borja and Valdez residences on E. Jacinto Street
beside the Divina Pastora National Shrine.
The Macaquits moved to Wellington,
New Zealand when Jadi was 7 years old. ###
Ecijanos
in Chicago
Violet Espinosa, a
nurse from San Isidro and Tirso Villaverde, a priest from Quezon,
visit the WGN-TV studio
in Chicago, Illinois after a charity event.
Both are based in
the Windy City. ###
Central
Luzon State U alumnus receives Fulbright Award
Fiorello
Abenes, alumnus of Central Luzon State University and Emeritus Professor
at California State Polytechnic University, has been awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship grant to lecture and do research at Mariano Marcos State University
in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
This
was announced by the United States Department of State and the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Dr.
Abenes will conduct research on the use of carabao rumen fluid as biodegrading
agent for iomass to produce ethanol. A write up of his work was adjudged
agriculture story of the year and bagged the top prize in the 2008 Brightleaf
Agriculture Journalism Awards sponsored by Philip Morris Philippines. The
winning story was published in the May, 2008 issue of Agriculture Magazine,
a monthly publication of the Manila Bulletin. It detailed a new finding
by Abenes and Perla Florendo of the Philippine Carabao Center at CLSU that
the microorganisms from the rumen of the carabao can be used to produce
ethanol out of agricultural wastes such as rice straw, corn stover, sugarcane
bagasse, grass, wood and other biomass. Dr. Abenes, was a "balik scientist"
program awardee of the Department of Science and Technology early this
year.
Abenes
is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel
abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2009.
The
Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange
program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its establishment in 1946 under
legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas,
the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 286,500 people – 108,160
Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 178,340 students,
scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar
activities in the United States – with the opportunity to observe each
others' political, economic, educational and cultural institutions, to
exchange ideas and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general
welfare of the world's inhabitants. The Program operates in over 155 countries
worldwide.
Recipients
of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional
achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
Fulbright alumni have become heads of state, judges, ambassadors, cabinet
ministers, CEO’s university presidents, journalists, artists, professors
and teachers.
Fulbright
recipients are among over 40,000 individuals participating in U.S. Department
of State exchange programs each year. For more than sixty years, the Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs that seek to
promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United
States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
is administered in the Philippines by the Philippine American Educational
Foundation. ###
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