ANNOUNCEMENT!

College of Human Ecology Coffee Table Book

The College of Human Ecology (CHE) is inviting all UPLB students, faculty, staff, alumni, residents, friends and foodies to share your stories and recipes today! Your essays on food facts, memories and experiences on the following categories are most welcome:

• Local food folklore
• Traditional and contemporary food and food uses/practices for all walks of life, across the life cycle
• Food places/hubs/hang-outs
• Food activities and programs

or anything that has/had influence on Los Baños' (and its environs') food use and meanings or alternately on the foodscene's effects on the inhabitants.

For more details click the links below:

• CHE Coffee Table Book Poster
• Entry Format

UP Alumni Association (UPAA)

In line with the celebration of the UP Centennial, the UPAA shall grant awards to distinguished alumni and give special recognition to individuals and groups who are embodiments of the Oblation, serving with pride, remaining strong and bold amid strife and challenges. These are: (i) the UP Distinguished Alumni Awards; and (ii) the UPAA Special Recognition for 2008.

The 2008 categories of awards shall be given to broad areas of involvement and achievement and, unlike in the past, will be delineated in thematic terms rather than along professional lines. The awardees will be nominated by their fellor alumni and chosen by the UPAA Committee on Search & Awards. The categories are:

• Public service and governance
• Poverty alleviation & human development
• Peace and social cohesion
• Gender equality/women empowerment
• Community empowerment
• Environmental conservation and sustainable development
• Entrepreneurship and employment creation
• Institutional/corporate social responsibility
• Culture and the arts
• Science and Technology
• Education and health

Other fields or areas of award may be added to the foregoing list as defined by the achievements of the nominee.

For individual and groups, Special Recognition shall include the following:

• Service to UPAA
• UPAA Outstanding Alumni chapter
• UPAA Family Recognition
• UPAA International Alumni Achievers

We are encouraging every alumni to disseminate this information to fellow alumni and to nominate UP Alumni, individually or groups, whom you know deserve the awards. In addition to nomination process, the Search Committee would encourage you to form Search Panels in yor campus or geographic area. For more information, e-mail UPAA at upalum@yahoo.com.ph or up.alum1@yahoo.com or call (02) 920-6868; (02) 920-6875;
FAX: (02) 929-8327.

Download the nomination forms and submit them not later than APRIL 15, 2008. Mailed entries must be post marked not later than the said date. Please be informed tha only properly completed nominations shall be accepted.

Job Postings

TANN Philippines, Inc. (TPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tann-Papier Gesellschaft m.b.H., was incorporated in the Philippines on February 28, 2002 and started commercial operations on June 2, 2003. TPI is an international paper converting group that is engaged in the business of manufacturing, printing and conversion of packaging and other materials.

TPI is in urgent need of a Quality Assurance Staff

• male or female
• Preferably not more than 25 years old
• College graduate, preferably Bachelor of Science course or any Chemistry-related degree
• Preferably with one or two years work experience in quality assurance or laboratory
• Knowledgeable in MS office apllications
• Flexible, hardworking, organized and willing to learn
• Proficient in English language (oral and written)
• Trustworthy and has keen attention to detail
• preferably residing in Laguna or Batangas

New Graduates are encouraged to apply.
Interested applicants may also send their resumes to: Antoinette.Loar@tbggroup.com The Human Resources Department
TANN Philippines, Inc.
First Philippine Industrial Park
Brgy. Sta. Anastacia, St. Tomas
Batangas, 4234

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