Annually since 1988, all United Nations member states—including the Philippines—commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1. The initiative, started by the World Health Organization, aims to shed light on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which have claimed the lives of 30 to 41 million people worldwide. This year’s theme…
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DIPO, DITO debut first Laguna DITECH
The DLSU Innovation and Technology (DITECH) Fair’s seventh iteration was held last November 20 to 21 at the Richard L. Lee Engineering and Technology Block in the Laguna Campus. With the theme Innovation Next: DITECH@Laguna, the event marked its first iteration at said campus—symbolized by the ceremonial ribbon cutting by University Chancellor Br. Bernard Oca…
Polar caps melting; fish suffocating from plastic consumption; sea levels rising—these were just some of the problems tackled last November 19 at the Shell Companies in the Philippines Audio Visual Room, second floor of Velasco Hall. The event, entitled Climate Change: What Can We Do?, was hosted by the Science College Government in hopes of…
From November 6 to 8, the DLSU Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Technologies held the Seminar/Workshop Series on Biomechanics at the Shell Companies in the Philippines Audio Visual Room, second floor of Velasco Hall. The lecture series—which featured Dr. Justin Wade Fernandez, an Associate Professor from the University of Auckland in New Zealand—discussed computational…
Last November 4, a lecture entitled Mathematics of Deep Learning was held at the Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room, 14th floor of Henry Sy Sr. Hall. The key speaker, Dr. Eduardo Mendoza—an Adjunct Professor of DLSU and the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD), and a guest scientist in Munich, Germany—discussed the recent contributions of…
Climate change, or the change in global climate patterns due to increased concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, has greatly affected Earth’s living conditions and recent reports from the United Nations have shown that Earth will only continue to get hotter. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies monitors the Earth’s…
In recent years, interconnectivity has taken precedence at a tremendous pace with the emergence of various technologies that have become increasingly linked as cellular network technologies is swiftly being realized by torrential breakthroughs in the domain of wireless networking and telecommunications, two disciplines that encompass the wireless transmission of data to facilitate communication across networks.…
The International Conference on Molecular Systems Biology (ICMSB) has continually contributed numerous groundbreaking research studies in the domains of Biochemical Systems Theory (BST) and Metabolic Control Theory (MCT)—two computational frameworks that are geared toward the analysis of biological systems, which span from cells to complex ecosystems. On its 16th iteration, this year’s ICMSB—held last October…
The country’s “war on drugs” can be traced back to 2016 when President Rodrigo Duterte assumed his position as President of the Republic of the Philippines. Three years have passed, but the Duterte administration is nowhere near its specified goal of eradicating drug use in the country. Drug rehabilitation efforts have since progressed extensively with…
From October 18 to October 20, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) hosted its 2019 Space Apps Challenge at De La Salle University. Space Apps is a yearly event which aims to bring together students and professionals to find solutions to problems by using NASA’s open data. As the participants used their creativity in…