Champions of the NSC. On hand to celebrate the unveiling of
the marker were many of the project’s most ardent advocates
led by (from left) Senator Edgardo J. Angara (standing),
President-elect Alfredo E. Pascual, DOST Secretary Mario
Montejo, Representative Luis Villafuerte, President Emerlinda
R. Román and Regent Magdaleno Albarracin.
Feb. 14 — The official marker and a scale model of the National Science Complex (NSC) were unveiled at the College of Science (CS) amphitheater amid the cheers of the entire CS community and all its stakeholders on February 2.
Hosted by CS Dean Caesar Saloma, at the event were Sen. Edgardo J. Angara and Rep. Luis Villafuerte (Camarines Sur 2nd District), Department of Science and Tecnology (DOST) Secretary Mario Montejo, former UP President Emerlinda R. Román, Regents Magdaleno Albarracin and Clodualdo Cabrera, Chancellor Sergio S. Cao, President-elect Alfredo E. Pascual and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Lorna I. Paredes.
Román lauded Saloma’s “exceptional” efforts in bringing the almost P2 billion NSC project had its origins as far back as in the 1980s when Dr. Roger Posadas helmed the CS.
Angara sees science and technology as the way to the country’s progress, a way to pull the country out of the poverty it is now facing.
Villafuerte, for his part, said the next potential step for the NSC is sponsoring the creation of the Philippine Genome Center and the Biodiversity Resources Center.
Construction for the complex started in 2008 with the final structure, the CS Administration Building, targeted for completion in the first quarter of 2012.—AKR