With over 400 public and private school teachers and administrators, DEPSA and FAMAS, both graduate student organizations of College of Teacher Education successfully held a webinar on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focus of the webinar was to revitalize graduate students’ awareness of the SDGs with a special emphasis on fostering accessible and quality education...
Over 5,000 mangrove saplings were added to the Lagadlarin Mangrove Forest at Lobo, Batangas. Being a calamity-prone country, mangrove forests can act as a powerful natural defense in our coastal area. It decreases the risk of flooding and erosion and most importantly, absorbs the storm surge impacts during extreme weather events such as typhoons. The...
To better craft a climate change action plan inclusive of the university’s needs and resources, BatStateU Action Center and Center for Sustainable Development invited Dr. Marte Gutierrez, a J.R Paden Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, USA to share his expertise on climate change mitigation...
BS Development Communication students in collaboration with the Center for Sustainable Development staged a one-day exhibit that highlighted the University’s sustainable initiatives in the achievement of the 17 UN SDGs. DevCom students featured various sustainability efforts through a wide array of IEC materials such as pamphlets, brochures, dioramas, charts, and diagrams as well as videos...
Batangas State University (BatStateU), through its Center for Sustainable Development, facilitated the draft presentation of the “BatStateU Policy Guidelines for Sustainable Development” on November 25, 2022. The event was held at the Seminar Room, 5th Floor of the SSC II Building, BatStateU-Pablo Borbon Campus. The initiative aligns with the university’s commitment to sustainability and supports...
Drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are already being utilized to help people in need worldwide. In this report, the authors designed an unmanned vehicle composed of a flight mechanism & power supply, frame, and different payloads for different missions. These also include the design of different landing gears that are mechanically replaceable depending on...
The challenging task of diagnosing gastrointestinal (GI) tracts recently became a popular research topic, where most researchers performed extraordinary feats using numerous deep learning (DL) and computer vision techniques to achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) diagnostic performance based on accuracy. However, most proposed methods relied on combining complex computational methods and algorithms, causing a significant increase in...
Bopyrid isopods and rhizocephalan barnacles are obligate parasite crustaceans which harm their decapod hosts. However, to the best of our knowledge, studies have not compared which of these parasites has a greater parasitic effect on its hosts. Here, the parasitic effect of the bopyrid isopod, Allokepon hendersoni, and an unidentified sacculinid rhizocephalan species, infesting the...
The tropical red seaweed Halymenia durvillei Bory de Saint Vincent is a potential source of the high-value pigments, r-phycoerythrin (RPE) and r-phycocyanin (RPC). The unique properties of these pigments find many applications—from food to cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and biomedical research. This study aimed to improve the land-based culture technology of H. durvillei by determining the appropriate...
Verde Island Passage is the world’s center of the center of marine shore fish biodiversity, located in southwestern Luzon Island in the Philippines. The passage is named after Verde Island, which is located at its middle. Although the island is located within a key biodiversity area, studies on its marine macrophyte biodiversity are scant. The...
