3 Students to Receive BPI-DOST Science Awards

The Bank of the Philippine Islands Foundation, Inc. has chosen three Silliman students as among the 30 recipients of the annual Bank of the Philippine Islands-Department of Science and Technology (BPI-DOST) Science Awards.

Jason Coo (Civil Engineering), Kaiser Josef Sedillo (Electrical Engineering) and Jonathan Andro Tan (Physics with Emphasis in Computer Application) will receive their plaques, research grants and cash prizes in February during a ceremony where they will present their winning projects.

Established in 1989, the BPI-DOST Science Awards aims to recognize and provide incentives to budding scientists and researchers from BPI?s ten partner universities in the Philippines.

Recipients of the BPI Science Awards are offered employment at BPI as junior officers.