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Cure for HIV/AIDS ‘still a ways away’ (Part 2)
By Elton Lugay TF: What does your groundbreaking case mean for medical research? Are we any closer to finding a cure for AIDS? KL: Between the time that we identified the case and the time that it was worked up, it was a matter of months. But we were able to do that for a […]
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Scientist Katherine Luzuriaga ‘very honored’ that Filipinos are proud of her (Part 1)
By Elton Lugay When Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga discovered a cure for an HIV-infected infant, Filipino Americans also discovered that rare and distinguished scientist within their community. Bacolod-born Luzuriaga, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, grew up in the Philippines. She came to the U.S. for college, attending the Massachusetts Institute […]
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Michael Purugganan named a trustee of NYC research foundation
The Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the election of two new members to its Board: Dr. Cynthia Barnhart and Dr. Michael Purugganan. Barnhart is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems and associate dean of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Purugganan is the Dorothy […]
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Flickr founder Caterina Fake on ‘putting the heart and humanity’ back in the Internet
By Cristina DC Pastor On her blog, Caterina Fake, 49, co-founder of the Flickr photo hosting and sharing website, described herself using four disordered words: entrepreneur, mother, reader, optimist. Let me add another: Filipino-American. I came across Caterina Fake’s name while doing a web search of ‘Filipino Americans.’ Her name came up and under it […]
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Kabang: The face of heroism
By Federico A. Espiritu Kabang, the snout-less street dog from the Philippines, stands to spend a wintry Christmas in America, as she undergoes a series of facial surgeries in a California hospital. She lost nearly half her face while saving two Zamboanga girls from a motorcycle accident last year. The headline-grabbing incident caught the attention […]
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Software developer shares Bloomberg’s vision for digital NYC
By Cristina DC Pastor Want to know how many people visit the Rockefeller Center every year or every hour? Maybe you’re curious about New York’s youngest, wealthiest mayors. And just who are the Canarsies? NYCFacets, an application that will put New York City at your fingertips, is nearing completion and scheduled to launch in October. […]
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Michael Purugganan: Unlocking the secret life of rice
By Cristina DC Pastor In January, Michael Purugganan, 48, was named dean for Science at NYU. For the former Collegian features editor who rose to become a leading plant biologist and now a distinguished New York science educator, the journey began quite inauspiciously — with rice. A study indicating that rice originated solely from China […]
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MIT to help breed Filipino scientists
In the name of science and technology, MIT in Cambridge and the Philippine Science High School in Palo, Leyte found each other. Through Project Philippines 2012, the two schools are hoping to inspire students to develop scientific traits, like having an inquiring mind and problem-solving skills, through leadership training. If they can steer young people […]