3 November 2020, Calgary – Philippine Consul General to Calgary Zaldy Patron conveyed his congratulations to Mr. Albert Remus Rosana, Filipino PhD student in University of Alberta (U of A), who was recently named as one of the three recipients of the prestigious Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Graduate Prize given by the university on 14 October 2020. 

 

The Killam awardees are selected based on a PhD student’s academic achievement, research proposal, letters of recommendation, and leadership qualities. The recognition is U of A’s highest award for its PhD students.

 

For winning the award, Mr. Rosana, who is taking up PhD in Chemistry, received a total of grant of CAD100,000 over the next two years. In U of A, he is currently researching for new ways to control the spread of the mountain pine beetle epidemic that threatens not only the Western Canadian pine tree forest but the whole forest ecosystem of Canada.

 

“Mr. Rosana’s remarkable achievement is a testament that Filipinos can excel academically, including in research, and be among the best in the world,” Consul General Patron said of Mr. Rosana.

 

Mr. Rosana, a native of Sta. Cruz, Laguna, Philippines, is a magna cum laude graduate of University of the Philippines Los Baños where he earned his degree in BS Biology in 2005. He first studied in U of A for his Master of Science in Microbiology and Biotechnology in 2010, then started his PhD in Chemistry in 2016.

 

Since 2012, Mr. Rosana has already written 22 publications and he is currently working on six manuscripts for his various researches, some in collaboration with other researchers.

 

While in U of A, Mr. Rosana still conducts researches in the Philippines that can potentially help various Philippine industries.