Press Release

Philippine Consul General in Toronto meets with Vice-Provost of Univ. of Toronto

2020-04-06

PR no. 16-2020

27 February 2020 – Philippine Consul General Orontes Castro in Toronto paid a courtesy call on Professor Joseph Wong, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, International Student Experience of the University of Toronto on 24 February 2020.

Among the issues discussed during the meeting were the plan to teach Pilipino language at the university’s ASEAN Center with the support of the Filipino Community in Toronto as well as future collaborative projects between Dr. Tammy Sage, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Toronto, and professors of the University of the Philippines, Los Banos.

The meeting was also a follow up of the previous meeting that Consul General Castro, UPLB Chancellor Fernando Sanchez, Vice-Chancellor Rex Demafelis and Vice-Chancellor Portia Lapitan had with University of Toronto officials in November 2019. – END

Philippine Consul General in Toronto Orontes Castro (L) with Prof. Joseph Wong, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, International Student Experience, University of Toronto (U of T) at the U of Toronto on 24 February 2020. (Photo by PCG Toronto)

Congen Castro (1st from R) with the University of the Philippines Los Banos delegation of Chancellor Fernando Sanchez Jr., PhD. (Center), Vice-Chancellor Portia Lapitan, Ph.D. (2nd from L), and Vice-Chancellor Rex Demafelis, Ph.D,(1st from L) and Cynthia Goh, Ph.D., Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Director of the Impact Centre, University of Toronto (U of T) (2nd from R) at the U of T grounds on 28 Nov. 2019.

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