UP School of Statistics Professors and Students won Awards from the NAST

UP School of Statistics Professors, Dr. Dennis S. Mapa and Dr. Lisa Grace S. Bersales, received the 2010 Outstanding Scientific Paper Award from the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). Drs. Mapa and Bersales received the honor for the research paper they co-authored entitled “Population Dynamics and Household Saving: Evidence from the Philippines.” The paper was published in The Philippine Statistician.

In another category, the paper of Dr. Dennis S. Mapa and UP School of Statistics Students, Michael Daniel C. Lucagbo and Czarina Lei S. Ignacio, won the 2010 Best Scientific Poster Award for the their paper “Is Income Growth Enough to Reduce Fertility Rate? Empirical Evidence from Regional Panel Data.”

The awards were given during the closing ceremonies of the 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the NAST held at the Manila Hotel last July 15, 2010.