Dr. Laura Tenmatay David
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Dr. Laura Tenmatay David
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Dr. Stella Luz Alabastro-Quimbo
Dr. Laura Tenmatay David and Dr. Stella Luz Alabastro-Quimbo are among the 11 recipients of this year’s The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) Awards.
David is the country’s first Filipino woman oceanographer. She is an associate professor at The Marine Science Institute and deputy director for instructions. She obtained a BS Chemistry from UPD and Ph.D. in marine science-physical oceanography from the University of South Carolina in the United States.
Quimbo, an economist, is a full professor at the UP School of Economics. She earned a BS Business Economics, summa cum laude, in 1991, an M.A. Economics in 1993 and Ph.D. in Economics in 2000 all degrees from UPSE. In 2002, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Brown University in the US and in 2009, she was conferred the Outstanding Young Scientist for Economics by the National Academy of Science and Technology.
According to the TOWNS website, the awards are given to Filipino women ages 21 to 45 who have shown exceptional talent and devotion to their career and have rendered exemplary service to the nation. The awards are given every three years.
The other nine TOWNS awardees are: educator Therese Tianco Badoy, Akbayan party-list Representative Arlene Javellana Bag-ao; broadcast journalist Kara Patria Constantino David; social entrepreneurship pioneer Therese Clarence Arellano Chua Fernandez; anti-human trafficking campaigner Jo Enrica Catalla Enriquez; organizational psychologist Regina Hechanova-Alampay; urologist Carmela Mortillero Lapitan; argicultural researcher Marissa Villafuerte Romero; and information and communications technology leader Myla Cristina Crespo Villanueva.
—Haidee C. Pineda