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About the Presenter
Dr. Erniel B. Barrios is Professor 12 and present Dean of the School of Statistics.
He holds BS (UE, Cum Laude, 1985), MS (UPD, 1987), and PhD (UPD, 1990, a
sandwich program with The Ohio State University) degrees in Statistics. He has
been teaching in the School of Statistics for more than 26 years, and also served
as Visiting Researcher at ADB Institute (Tokyo, Japan; 2006) and Visiting Professor
in Karlstad University (Karlstad, Sweden; 2013). He has received numerous
awards including the Gawad Chanselor para sa Natatanging Guro in 2010, the UP
Centennial Professorial Chair, UP Scientist 1 (2009-2011), and UP Scientist 3
(2012-2014). He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. His
work on computational statistics produced papers published in ISI-indexed journals.
He was invited to contribute in the International Encyclopedia of the Statistical
Sciences (Springer 2010) and is working on a book on spatio-temporal models for
Springer. He is currently the editor of The Philippine Statistician and has served
as editorial board member of several local and international journals.
About the School of Statistics
The School of Statistics was established in 1953 as the Statistical Training Center,
then later as Statistical Center, under a bilateral agreement between the Government
of the Philippines and the United Nations. Its primary objective then was to work
towards the improvement of statistical services in government. Ten years later,
the Center was formally turned over to the University of the Philippines. In 1964,
the UP Board of Regents approved the Bachelor of Science (Statistics) program
of the Center, which was implemented beginning AY 1967-1968.
In 1998, the Statistical Center changed its name to School of Statistics in order to
reflect its expanded character of a degree-granting institution. At present, the
School of Statistics offers one undergraduate program and three graduate
programs. These are the BS (Statistics) program, the Master of Science (MOS)
program, MS (Statistics) program and the PhD (Statistics) program. Through these
programs, the School of Statistics has produced numerous distinguished
statisticians in various professions and is widely recognized as the primary
source of statistical expertise for the Philippine statistical system and industry.
(Source: http://www.stat.upd.edu.ph/about.htm)

26 Paliwanagan sa UP Diliman

PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE UP DILIMAN CAMPUS
Mary Ann A. Espina
Master Planning is an essential and urgent exercise needed in the management
and operations of any administrative office or business enterprise. It entails longterm visioning and, therefore, the master plan must incorporate decisions that
satisfy the needs of not just the present generation, but most especially, the
future stakeholders (taken from the UP System Master Development Plan Report).
In master planning a campus, the governing factors include academic programs –
their relevance and ability to sustain their responsiveness to society and the
industry; and buildings and infrastructure – their adequacy, capacity and ability to
expand. Both factors work symbiotically: the programs define the space
requirements and the physical space assures the success of delivery of the
academic programs (prepared by the UP Office of Design and Planning Initiatives).
This paper takes off from the abovementioned points. It illustrates the logical and
responsive manner by which campuses should be designed and developed.
Specifically, it discusses the application of sustainable principles in the design
and development of the UP Diliman Campus, not only as a response to the urgent
pleadings of climate change mitigation, but also as a manifestation of UP’s
commitment to its mandate as a National University at the forefront of national
development efforts in general, and sustainable development efforts in particular.
About the Presenter
Arch. Mary Ann A. Espina is an Associate Professor at the UP College of Architecture
and is currently the Dean of the college. A licensed architect and landscape
architect by profession, she obtained her degree of BS Architecture at the University
of San Carlos in Cebu City in 1976 and passed the Licensure exams in Architecture,
placing 10th among the topnotchers. She took up her second degree of Bachelor
in Landscape Architecture at the University of the Philippines and graduated in
1982. She was National Treasurer of the United Architects of the Philippines
(UAP) from 1994 to 1996, and National President of the Philippine Association of
Landscape Architects (PALA) from 2003 to 2004. In June 2003, she was awarded
the prestigious Most Outstanding Professional of the Year for Landscape
Architecture by the Professional Regulation Commission.

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