As a prelude to the 70th death anniversary of Jose Abad Santos, a small monument is placed exactly in his death site in Malabang, Lanao del Sur.

JCI Senate Philippines and The Insular Life Assurance Co., Ltd. recently award their winners for the 2009 Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) awards.

Given below are the names of the awardees in their respective field:

Teotimo M. Aganon, Ph.D. for Science and Technology - distinguished himself a scientist, research and development administrator, socio-civic leader, and educator. He contributed greatly to the growth of pest management technology, particularly in rodent control and locust containment in central Luzon.

To help with technical assistance, funding for their inventions and registration and processing of their patents, Department of Science and Technology-Region 6 (DOST) and Intellectual Property Office (IPO) are urging Ilonggo inventors to register their work since many of them are waiting to be exposed.

In this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in San Jose, California, USA on May 9 to 14, four students from the Philippine Science High School-Eastern Visayas located at Government Center, Palo, Leyte have reaped international awards for the Philippines.

Three of the students are Jean Reni Briones de Guzman, Marc Abegonia Mapalo, and Maria Clara Isabel Sia of the Philippine Science High School-Eastern Visayas campus. The team won in the Team Awards category in the area of Life Sciences for their group study: Use of Natural Flocculants in Mitigating Harmful Algal Blooms (Red Tides), creating a natural treatment for Red Tide using indigenous materials.

The newest national artist still looks distinguished gentleman. In short, he looks not the master-artist; he dresses tastefully, why, in the grand manner of the boulevardier (a lost species).

He graduated high school from San Beda, earned a law degree from Ateneo, partly to oblige his lawyer-father, but desisted from hurdling the bar. Instead, fired-up he studied art at U.P. without earning a degree. He painted, doggedly, assiduously, turning out canvass after canvass. Unhappy with the rote of academic traditional painting, he painted his own way nevertheless. This seduced him to be bold, an unknown painter showing his wares, for the first time at San Beda College Hall. He showed his artistic prowess in portraits, a better offshoot than his early master Amorsolo. It was 1953. He was 21 years old: the debut of a future master.

To ensure safety of process and quality of product, addition of flavors and essences, and the core group approach in development of brand, Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) in Quezon, in cooperation with the Department of Trade Industry (DTI) IV-CITEM and DOST-ItDI, kicked off standardization of process and packaging of pure lambanog.

As the Filipino-American professionals based in Silicon Valley signed a memorandum of agreement with Philippine government officials during the recent visit of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo here, they are committed to help promote science and technology in the Philippines.

Arroyo witnessed the MoA signing between Philippine government officials and the Silicon Valley-based Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC), which was represented by its president, Christina R. Laskowski.