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Jurgenne H. Primavera
Jurgenne Honculada-Primavera (born 22 February) is a widely cited Filipina marine scientist. For her research in mangrove ecosystem conservation she was honored as one of ''Time'' magazine's Heroes of the Environment for 2008. She was inducted into the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in 2015. Biography Jurgenne and her twin sister, Georgette, were born on 22 February in Mindanao, in the Philippines. Primavera completed a BS in zoology from the University of the Philippines Diliman. For nearly a decade she taught biology and zoology at Mindanao State University, until a growing insurgency caused her to take a research position with the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center in the safer Visayas. She earned her MA in zoology from Indiana University and her PhD in marine biology from the University of the Philippines. In 2005, she received a Pew Fellowship in marine conservation. She was inducted into the National Academy of Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit Media
Summit Publishing Co., Inc., trading as Summit Media, is a Filipino digital lifestyle network in the Philippines. It has 15 media brands attracting around 20 million monthly unique visitors and approximately 33 million social media followers. It began as a consumer magazine publisher in June 1995, with ''Preview'' as its first magazine title. It turned into a publication conglomerate which published several lifestyle magazines titles, including ''Candy'' for young Filipino girls and Yes! (Philippine magazine), ''Yes!'', a Philippine entertainment magazine. The company is privately owned by Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, the daughter of Filipino businessman John Gokongwei. It has expanded to publishing specialized magazines for companies and occasions in the Philippines, and also started publishing short books designed for Filipino readers. The results of the 2014 Taylor Nelson Sofres, TNS Newsstand Survey showed that Summit Media had popularity in 12 categories: young women (''Cosmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
