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U.P. Los Baños Journal

Regular Issue

The Issue Editor Speaks

Year 2020 poses a lot of challenges to everyone, from natural disasters to health pandemic due to emergence of a new virus (Covid- 19). With all of these, the University Publications Office is gearing up to a new dimension in serving the UPLB community. I am grateful that we are able to publish the UPLB Journal 2020. This year, the UPLB Journal will be publishing two issues, regular issue and special issue featuring the Southern Luzon interdisciplinary Studies Center (SDILC) under Dr. Florencia Palis. A million thanks to the authors, especially to the reviewers who are very cooperative and very patient with our demands in helping us assess the publishability of the articles.

I would like to acknowledge the help extended to us by everyone from the former Chancellor (Chancellor Fernando C. Sanchez, Jr.) to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Dr. Portia G. Lapitan) and Assistant to the Vice Chancellor (Prof. Julieta A. De Los Reyes). Grateful to them that UPO is moving forward with new equipment, new office and more hope in the future to better the services of UPO not only in terms of publishing a journal once a year but hoping that we can come up with at least 2 volumes per year. I am also grateful to the new Chancellor (Chancellor Jose V. Camacho, Jr) to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Dr. Jean O. Loyola) and Assistant to the Vice Chancellor (Prof. Roselle V. Collado), University Publications Board to OVCAA staff for their support in the endeavors of University Publications Office.