The College of Economics and Management (CEM) will celebrate its 30th Foundation Day on 25 July 2008 with the theme "Looking and Giving Back to CEM@30." This year's foundation day is fitting and doubly significant as UP culminates its celebration of the Centennial Year. At 10:00 a.m., the celebration will be highlighted by a book launching, awarding ceremonies and special lecture to be delivered by Mr. Francis Laurel (BS Agribusiness Management '70).

UPLB is now laying the groundwork for the celebration of its Centennial in 2009. In line with this, the Office of Public Relations and the Office of Alumni Relations is holding the UPLB Centennial logo making contest. The use of a logo will lend a unified and strong visual identity for the publicity materials and collaterals that will be used in the celebration.

The contest is open to all UPLB students, personnel and alumni who, individually or as a group, may submit as many entries as possible. All entries, which may be rendered digitally or hand-made, should be submitted in a quarter-sized illustration board/canvass on or before August 29, 2008 at the Office of Public Relations. The entries will be exhibited from September 15-19, 2008 at the Alumni Plaza. The winning entry will be announced on Oct. 8 and launched on Oct. 9. The winner will receive P10, 000, a certificate and a Centennial memorabilia.

The College of Agriculture is on the lookout once again for the most significant alumnus/alumna in the practice of agriculture profession.

Nominations are now open for the following categories:

• Agriculture entrepreneurship
• Science and technology
• Teaching
• Institutional organization and development
• Public service and extension
• International service and cooperation

The Los Baños Science Community Foundation Inc. (LBSCFI) and UPLB will be holding its three-day celebration of the SyenSaya on July 16-18.

SyenSaya, a science and technology festival, stems from the celebration of the National Science and Technology Week and is a science tourism program, the first of its kind in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Luis Rey I. Velasco, UPLB chancellor and president of the LBSCFI, said that the festival aims to promote the town of Los Baños and the province of Laguna as premier science tourism and education destinations. The SyenSaya will be a venue where people from all walks of life will come to understand, appreciate, discover, and value the role of science in their everyday lives.

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics (IMSP) played host to three Balik Scientist awardees: Dr. Guillermo A. Mendoza, Dr. Vena Pearl A. Bongolan-Walsh and Dr. Romel D. Gomez.

Dr. Gil A. Mendoza , associate professor at the University of Illinois, will be in UPLB, specifically at IMSP, SESAM and CFNR, from June 23 to Aug. 31. He plans to give in-class lectures, seminars and short training courses on operations research, optimization and modeling of natural resource systems, geographic information systems and spatial analysis, community-based natural resource management systems, and landscape management systems for bio-fuels and bio-energy.