The UP Diliman Registrar

The Registrar

Dr. Evangeline C. Amor , College Secretary of the College of Science (CS) for the past five years, was appointed by Chancellor Caesar A. Saloma as University Registrar on 02 May 2011.

Dr. Amor is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry. She earned her BS Chemistry (1989), MS Chemistry (1998) and PhD in Chemistry (2003) from CS under the Institute of Chemistry (IC).

She joined the University in January 1990 as a Research Associate at the Natural Sciences Research Institute (NSRI). in June 1992, she became a Teaching Associate at IC, where she rose from the ranks to become Associate Professor 5 and served as CS College Secretary from June 2006 to April 2011.

She trained under the Research Sandwich Program of the International Center for the Chemical Sciences in HEJ Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi in Karachi, Pakistan from October 2000 to March 2001. The study was funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). She was a fellow at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA under the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department from September to December 2006, funded by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. She received three Centennial Faculty Grant Awards (December 2008, 2009 and 2010) and three International Publication Awards (February 2005, 2006, December 2007, June 2008, June 2009 and June 2010). She held professorial chair awards, namely, the Amando Clemente Professorial Chair (May 2007 and June 2008), the UPInvestment Portfolio Professorial Chair (June 2006), the PNOC Professorial Chair (June 2006), along with the Diamond Jubilee Faculty Grant (October 6, 2004) and the Antonio de Leon Research Award (March 2009). Dr. Amor's recent research and scholarly works include the "Alpha Glucosidase Inhibitory Compounds from Terminalia catappa Leaves" funded by NSRI and the "Bioassay Guided Isolation of Hypoglycemic Compounds from Philippine Medicinal Plants using Novel Biosensors for Multiple Metabolites" funded by the Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award, National Institutes of Health, USA (FIRCA, NIH, USA). She has published a number of scholarly works, the most recent of which include the "Tannin-rich fraction from Terminalia catappa inhibits quorum sensing (QS) in Chromobacterium violaceum and the QS-controlled biofilm maturation and LasA staphylolytic activity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" which she co-authored with Joemar C. Taganna, Jusal P. Quanico, Rose Marie G. Perono and Windell L. Rivera and was published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology; the "Antifungal activity of onion (Allium cepa L.) bulb extracts against Fusarium oxysporum and Colletothrichum sp." published in the Philippine Agricultural Scientist journal which she co-authored with Djanna F. Cornago and Rivera; and the "Stercurensin inhibits nuclear factor-kB p65 activation," published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, with Young-Joo Kim, Han-Cheon Kim, Hyeonseok Ko, Jong Wha Lee and Hyun Ok Yang as co-authors. source: Haidee C. Pineda, UPdate Diliman, Special Issue, May 2011