UIC tops World Research Fest
IN recognition of research achievements in terms of dissemination of scientific information and best practices in research and publication, the prestigious World Research Productivity Award was conferred for the third consecutive time to the University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) during the 3rd World Research Festival (WRF) held in Radisson Blu Hotel, Cebu City, last May 1 – 3.
The award was received by UIC Research Director Dr. Renan Limjuco, who was also chosen from over 100 participants to be one of only two World Publication Productivity Awardees. Together with two others, he also bagged the event’s most distinguished individual award– the Outstanding World Researcher Award 2014.
The UIC team included 10 faculty researchers with new publishable studies. They are Prof. Kristine Mae M. Adlaon, Dr. Teresita Q. Adriano, Prof. Mary Jane G. Barluado, Prof. Teodoro S. Caballero, Prof. Donnabelle A. Castro, Prof. Marx P. Catalan, Dr. Virgion H. Mamonong, Prof. Armando B. Parantar, Prof. Ma. Juliet G. Vasay, and Dr. Limjuco, who presented their papers in different concurrent sessions and garnered a total of 23 awards, including six Best Oral Presenter, seven Best in PowerPoint Presentation, five Best Dressed/ Personality, and five Best in Talent Awards. INDIVIDUALS ITE faculty Prof. Kristine Mae Adlaon presented her study titled CODEGROUNDS: An Interactive Computer Programming Tutorial Facebook Application against fellow ICT experts from Isabela State University and Carlos Hilado Memorial State College. She won Best Oral Presenter and the room’s platinum for Best PowerPoint Presentation.
LA faculty Prof. Ma. Juliet Vasay got Best Oral Presenter and platinum winner of the Best in Talent Award for her study Speech Acts in Kris Aquino’s Tweets: A Content Analysis against two others from Jose Rizal Memorial State University - Zamboanga and Philippine Normal University – Agusan.
LA faculty Dr. Virgion Mamonong won Best in Talent for his dance medley after presenting his study titled Genderlect in the Academic Milieu in Appreciation of the Opposite Sex against fellow linguists from Phil. Normal University-Agusan and Surigao del Sur State University.
LA faculty Prof. Teodoro Caballero with his study Effectiveness of Documentary Film as Teaching Material was pitted against researchers from Holy Name University and Carlos Hilado Memorial State College. He earned platinum for the Best in Talent Award.
Another LA faculty Prof. Donnabelle Castro with her study Personal Variables as Determinants for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Response to Calamities won platinum in PowerPoint Presentation and was chosen the Best Dressed/Personality (Female Category) against Surigao del Sur State University, Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University, and Iligan Capitol College.
MLS faculty Prof. Marx Catalan bested Carlos Hilado Memorial State College and Mindanao State College of Agriculture and Technology with his study Viability of Pineapple as a Laboratory Anticoagulant and Substitute for EDTA by emerging his set’s Best Oral Presenter and the room’s diamond winner for Best in PowerPoint Presentation and Best in Talent Awards.
The only presenter in the room commended by veteran scientist and judge Dr. Veneracion Cabana for embarking into a hard and novel study titled The Hardy-Weinberg Principle in the Transmission of Thalassemia and Selected Phenotypic Traits for Three Generations in Randommating Populations, Pharmacy faculty Prof. Mary Jane Barluado was pitted against Health researchers from the University of the Philippines-Manila and Surigao del Sur State Univeristy. She emerged the Best Dressed/Personality winner for female category and gold winner of the Best in PowerPoint Presentation.
Dr. Limjuco’s Effectiveness of Video Lecture Materials as Instructional Tool for Statistics Class won him Best Oral Presenter and all three diamonds for Best in Talent, Best in PowerPoint Presentation and Best Dressed/Personality (Male Category) Awards, against fellow Statistics researchers from Samar and Bulacan State Universities.
His second paper titled Structural Equation Modelling of Reality TV Shows in the Philippines against fellow expert from University of Mindanao, won the Best Oral Presenter Award and all three diamonds for Talent, PowerPoint and Personality.
Dr. Teresita Adriano was crowned the Best Dressed/ Personality (Female Category). Her paper titled Critical Linguistic Analysis of Print Communications in Tertiary Institutions was pitted against the study of fellow Language expert from the University of Southern Philippines Foundation. LA faculty Prof. Armando Parantar with his paper Easy Money over Ecological Duty: A Philisophiocal Criticism won Best Oral Presenter and diamond in Best in Powerpoint Presentation against fellow Philisophy researcher from Negros Oriental State University. MORE As a team, the UIC WRF 2014 delegation earned the first Institutional World Artistic Award 2014 for their gala dance performance of Rigodon Royale during the affair’s cultural show, which in previous years used to be dominated by invited cultural dance groups. For their individual talent presentations in the plenary, Drs. Limjuco and Mamonong and Profs. Catalan and Vasay, also each earned the Individual World Artistic Award. Dr. Adriano and Prof. Parantar also received Certificates of Recognition/ Appreciation for serving as Judges in concurrent sessions. The same Certificates were also given to Dr. Limjuco and Prof. Barluado for serving as Session Managers in separate concurrent sessions. Mary Jane G. Barluado/UIC