CSU president: ‘Put high premium on research’

Caraga State University President Dr. Anthony M. Penaso underscored the role of vibrant research culture in the academe in today’s VUCA world. ‘Our higher educational landscape has become unrelentingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It is for this reality that we have to put high premium on research,” he said, during the opening ceremony of the Annual Research Congress on Humanities, Education, Resource Management, and Sciences (ARCHERS) on May 8, 2019 held at Organic Agriculture Training Center, Caraga State University-Main Campus, Ampayon, Butuan City.

The president echoed that student-researchers could be game-changers in today’s information-based society where knowledge is both power and a great resource. ‘But, it should not be plain rhetoric and lip service. The roadmap of the future is built by research. It should be a serious research,” he added.

Dr. Penaso went on saying that the real challenge is to make undergraduate research projects of high quality and productivity, said to the CAS faculty and graduating student-researchers. “Research sets people as they will be. As ARCHERS, raise, aim and shoot,” the president emphasized.

Students presented their papers and posters extracted from their undergraduate thesis, categorized into eight thematic areas: Advanced Materials, DRRM-CCM, Health and Wellness, Aquatic Studies, Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation, Social Welfare and Protection, Culture and Social Change, and Basic and Action Research.

“I was nervous because I was alone in presenting our poster, but I find the questions beneficial to improve our study,” said Nelyn Benedico, a poster presenter from AB Sociology. MC/pico