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Dra Josette Biyo - Modern Day Filipina Hero
January 24, 2008While some people are straining to get glimpses of the ASF dancers or the EB Babes and others watch with much indifference the daily political comedy that has gripped this society, stories such as that of Dra Josette Biyo fail to get the media mileage they richly deserve. While the country’s largest networks are spending millions of pesos on their petty bickering and more money is spent on advertising the latest weight-reduction racket, probably much less than the daily allowance a typical La Salle or Ateneo student was spent on the coverage and publication of her proud achievement.
Dra Josette Biyo is the first Asian to have ever won the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award. More suprisingly, because of this feat, the Massachusetts Institue of Technology named a minor planet after her. A pebble by cosmic standards, Planet Biyo is only 9 kilometers in diameter and floats in space along the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. This could very well be a juxstaposition of her identity in the whole of Philippine society, just another pebble amongst many pebbles.
Hailing from Ilo-Ilo, she is a science teacher at their local Philippine Science High School, earning just around 15,000 pesos a month even with her Ph. D in Biology. Her humble roots belies her achievements, and were it not for displaying her accomplishment at their school’s bulleting board, then her story would have just passed and waned without the credit and attention it truly deserves from the nation.
You can read more about her here.
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how about prof. edgar e. escultura, mathematician? he was nominated for the nobel prize for physics in 2005.
and san juan declared a “precious lara quigaman day” when she came back to the country with the ms. international title.
again, how weird is that?
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man, you don’t even know how much i have ranted about our society’s misplaced priorities. dra. biyo is only one of the many subjects i point out in such rantings.
have you also heard of nicanor perlas and walden bello? in 2003, they were both awarded the RLA in sweden, a prestigious award regarded as the “alternative nobel prize”.
they and so many other filipino achievers have been virtually neglegted because filipinos would rather take notice of other forms of achievement. you know, like precious lara quigaman getting headlines in national newspapers when she won the ms. international tilt.
how weird is that?
Posted by cat with the fiddle at January 26, 2008, 11:05 am