Through the Decades....The 1980's

The 80's saw me largely out of the country pursuing graduate studies. after one and a half years of teaching at UP Diliman, i left in December of 1980 for the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota USA for my masters under a World Bank scholarship. with Dr. Dale Sorensen as my adviser, i finished my Master of Science in Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Avian Medicine degree in December 1982 ....by January of 1983 i was back home in Manila.

Soon after arriving, i reported back to work at UP Diliman. As part of the College of Veterinary Medicine's transfer to UP at Los Banos, i was one of the first two faculty members to transfer to Los Banos in 1984 to begin the operations of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (ADDL) and the Veterinary Hospital there. Consequently, i was also the first to occupy one of the then newly-built, Swiss chalet-type, 4-bedroom, wooden houses located at the foot of Mt. Makiling for UPCVM faculty and staff.

In April of 1987 i left for Japan under their Research Student MONBUSHO (Government of Japan Ministry of Education) Scholarship Program. After a year as a research student at the Department of Microbiology of the University of Tokyo, i took and passed the qualifying oral and written exams for the Phd program (despite my very poor Japanese language abilities at that time... hehehehehe).