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Dr. Teresita A. Tabaog, Officer-in-Charge, Office of the Regional Director of the Department of Science and Technology Region 1 (DOST-I) visited the agency’s projects and provincial offices in Pangasinan on 9 February 2023 to fully assess the needs on the ground and provide better support to implement programs better. 

The visit in Pangasinan by OIC-RD Tabaog led to the meeting with former DOST-I Regional Director Armando Q. Ganal and a visit to the PSTO-Pangasinan field office located at PSU Urdaneta. Jennifer Fernandez, Science Research Specialist II exhibited some of the products of assisted-SETUP firms in Districts 4, 5, and 6 and shortly discussed how the program helped improve their products, production processes, and businesses. 

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On February 23, 2023, scholars of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD), Doctors Loraine Kay Cabral and Noel Salvoza, will share their experiences and give insights as foreign scholars in Italy at the second session of Talakayang HeaRT Beat.

Cabral and Salvoza are the first two Filipino scholars under the PhD in Molecular Biomedicine Scholarship Program that was created through an agreement between the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD), the University of Trieste (UNITS), and Fondazione Italiana Fegato (FIF).

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The Metals and Engineering Innovation Center (MEIC) established in Region I, located at the College of Technology (COT), Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University – Mid La Union Campus (DMMMSU-MLUC), is currently assisting a total of three (3) on-the-job trainees who are taking Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology Major in Mechanical Technology, a big step towards creating a career in the said field.

The students are required to complete at least 700 hours of on-the-job training as a prerequisite for graduation. The OJT training program started on January 2023 and will end in May 2023.

Dr. Victorio C. Palabay, Dean, College of Technology and DMMMSU-MEIC Program Leader approved and accepted the trainees who were assessed to be highly competent. Deam Palabay has high hopes for the student-trainees that they will learn a lot about the basics of metal works and fabrication to help the needs of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the region. 

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SANTO TOMAS, La Union – The Provincial Science and Technology Office – La Union (PSTO-LU) of the Department of Science and Technology Regional Office I (DOST-I) conducted an advocacy meeting with LGU Santo Tomas to push for the implementation of the Community Empowerment Thru Science and Technology or CEST program in the area. 

The activity was attended by LGU officials headed by Engr. Severino C. Carbonel, Municipal Mayor, and other unit heads of this town to know more about CEST and how it will benefit their communities.

Jonathan M. Viernes, Provincial S&T Director of La Union, presented the DOST Programs, Projects and Activities and discussed the Science and Technology interventions that could be adopted by the communities to help the small and medium enterprises or SME’s as well as the entire municipality.