Lecture-Forum on Climate Change

Last Tuesday, August 24, 2010, the Physics department organized a lecture-forum on climate change, held at the multimedia center of Silliman University. The main lecture was led by Dr. Clare Cabahug Maxino, Ph.D. in Physical Geography at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. Her lecture was entitled:

"An Introduction to Climate Change and Climate Modelling"

Discussions on Risk Management involved with climate change was done after by Dr. Gerardo C. Maxino, Ph.D.

The lecture was attended by students from Maxino college, faculty and students of the SU physics department, and students from the chemistry department.

Dr. Clare discussed important details on climate change, as well as clarify terms that are usually misused by climate change skeptics. The students were given a brief overview on climate studies and basic climate models.

During the open-forum, different questions were raised by the students and faculty members, both physics and non-physics. One of Dr. Clare's closing remarks during the open forum stressed the importance of facts and data, "You have all the science, but it all boils down to how you use the science."

Physics Stars

Dr. Gerardo Maxino, PhD., nominated in the 4th Triennial Awards.

The Triennial Awards is given to exemplary individuals and outstanding institutions in the Visayas and Mindanao. The award is spear-headed by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. This years nominees for the exemplary individual awards include Dr. Maxino, Dr. Chelsa R. Cacaldo, Dr. Ray Catague, Ms. Wilhelmina Gonzales,and Mr. Glicerio Lucrecia.

Dr. Maxino, established the BS Physics program in the University of San Carlos and here in Silliman University. He established the Philippine Physics Society (PPS) to improve the physics education in the country. After retiring, Dr. Maxino continued to teach in Maxino College, a school he founded with his family.

Dr. 'Gery' Maxino not only possesses a bachelor's and master's degree in Physics, but he also has a master's degree in Math studies. He has two doctoral degrees: Education Administration and Technology Management. At the age of 67, he is working on achieving his 3rd master's - Information Technology.