The renowned physicist couple who had been named among the 2010 winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, will be the keynote speakers at the 47th Annual Conference of the People Management Association of the Philippines slated October 13-15, 2010 at the Cebu International Convention Center, Mandaue City, Cebu.
Drs. Christopher C. Bernido and Ma. Victoria Carpio Bernido, who also won the prestigious Gawad Haydee Yorac last year, are currently the president and principal, respectively, of the Research Center for Theoretical Physics, at Jagna Bohol.
The extraordinary couple is expected to provide a thoughtful backdrop to the PMAP Conference by reflecting on the theme “A New Horizon” and share the lessons and the challenges they faced in charting personal new horizons for themselves, for the future of Physics in the country, and for students in their home province in Bohol. By drawing on the depth of experiences that only a lifetime of meaningful living can bring, conference participants will learn from the Bernidos the fears, hopes, challenges and opportunities of facing metaphorical new horizons.
French philosopher and historian Ernest Renan once said, “As soon as sacrifice becomes duty and necessity to mankind, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.” The Bernidos are a living proof of how unselfish efforts and personal sacrifices can lead to a new horizon not only for themselves but also for their community.
Almost twenty years ago, they were the Director and Assistant professor of the National Institute of Physics of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, one of the most prestigious science institutions in the country, when they decided to move back to their hometown Jagna in Bohol.
The Bernidos saw the need to produce good grade school and high school graduates in order to produce good college graduates based from years of experience in teaching. This is the main reason why they opted to quit their promising careers in UP to teach physics, mathematics and other tough subjects to high school students in their province, even as they continued to mentor masteral and doctoral Physics students from different universities in the Philippines.
The Bernidos showed purposeful commitment to both science and nation, ensuring innovative, low-cost and effective basic education even under Philippine conditions of great scarcity and daunting poverty, according to the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation who recognized the couple along with four other awardees from China, Bangladesh and Japan last August 31 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Call us for registration and other inquiries:
Tel. no.: 726-1532 loc. 309
Ms. Cacay Ponce de Leon
cacay.poncedeleon@pmap.org.ph
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