The Museum of Natural History (MNH) welcomed ten students from Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) with warm smiles on 13 June 2017. officially marking the first day of TAMIU’s Study Abroad Program in the Philippines which will last until 8 July 2017.

The batch was led by two associate professors, Dr. Marcus Antonius Ynalvez and Dr. Ruby Ynalvez, who will be discussing Social Issues in the Tropics and Exploring Biology in the Tropics respectively in collaboration with the Museum. Six of the students, mostly juniors, are Biology majors participating in the study program as an advanced elective while the remaining are joining out of interest and enthusiasm.

Are you a taxonomist, systematist, geologist, curator, educator or worker in a museum taking care of precious natural history collections?

We cordially invite you to CLADES 2017, the first ever summit/conference/workshop of Philippine natural history museums and collections this 27-28 September 2017 at the University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna. CLADES 2017 The summit will tackle concerns on Culture, Learning, Art, Design, Environment and Science (CLADES) in relation to natural history museums and collections in the Philippines.

Institute of Biological Sciences Associate Professor and Museum of Natural History Curator for Mammals Phillip A. Alviola is set to be given the prestigious 2017 Outstanding Young Scientist Award by the National Academy of Science and Technology this coming July.

Prof. Alviola is one of three awardees from the University of the Philippines System and the lone awardee from the UP Los Banos campus. A wildlife biologist with an experience of over 20 years, Prof. Alviola has substantially contributed to the fields of mammalian ecology and taxonomy, cave biology, conservation biology, and bat virology.

MNH Director and ornithologist Dr. Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez recently was in Kuching City, Sarawak, Malaysia last 16-18 May 2017 as the only Filipino delegate presentor during the 2017 International Hornbill Conference (IHC).

Dr. Gonzalez delivered a paper on "Revisiting the Co-evolution of Hornbills and Mallophagan Lice" which he co-authored with Nathaline P. Fabrigas of Far Eastern University and Perry Archival Buenavente of the National Museum of the Philippines.

LAGUNA – Photography courses usually do not come cheap. So, it really came as a surprise when the university’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension (OVCRE) and the Museum of Natural History jointly offered something better than cheap last 25-28 April 2017 -- free biological photography courses for two batches of information officers.

The OVCRE partnered with the Museum to hold the course for the members of its Information Officers Network. The participants came from Center for Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship (CTTE), Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA), National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH), and the OVCRE.

LAGUNA - For seven days, 20 young participants from various organizations braved the outdoors of Mt. Makiling and learned more about biodiversity conservation during the UPLB Museum of Natural History’s annual Summer Short Course on Biodiversity for Beginners last 17-23 April 2017.

Fifteen Biology students from Adamson University, three Environmental Management majors from Ateneo de Naga University, one Environmental Scientist from consultancy group AECOM, and one Senior High School Biology teacher from Agusan del Sur comprised the latest batch of MNH Short Course “alumni” after they presented the results of their simple biodiversity surveys during the course’s closing program last 23 April.