Research Unit

It is a unit under the COS that is engaged in developing, enhancing, and nurturing the research capability and experience of the COS faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students in order to make them more productive and, thus, contribute to the improvement of life in society. The Research Unit is committed to enable the COS responsive to the needs of science and mathematics teachers as well as mark leadership and advancement in areas and processes that impact on science and mathematics education.

Extension Unit

The Extension Unit of the College of Science is one of the extension units of the Center of Linkages and Extension Services (CLES). The extension units are the arms institutionalized by the CLES among the various colleges of the university. Each unit has an extension coordinator. The extension coordinator is in charge of the management, operations and other activities of the college unit in coordination with the CLES.

Science Resource Center

The Center services all activities of the college particularly the Department of Physical Sciences and the Department of Biological Sciences. It houses all the chemicals, equipment and devices used in the performance of laboratory experiments in biology, physics, chemistry and earth science. The center is staffed by two technicians who assist the professors and students as they prepare for their experiments.

Science Mini-Library

One of the main features of the college is the Science Mini-Library located at Rm.310-A, Taft wing of the main building. The library stores a collection of recent edition science textbooks, science journals, theses of science majors and compilation of science articles, lesson plans, and syllabi and other related instructional materials. The library serves the science students as well as science faculty members.

Multi-Media Center

The Multi-Media Center contains 30 computers designed for training of pre-service and in-service teachers in the use of ICT in the classroom. The center also serves as alternative room for science classes that make use of videos and film clips for the delivery of lesson. As such, the collection of science-related films in VHS and laser discs are housed in this room. It is fully air-conditioned and equipped with a wide screen and a movie projector, TV set and VHS & beta players. There is also a karaoke player for sound enhancement.

The center likewise serves as a dark room for Optics experiments. It is also used when the science department holds seminars and trainings.

Learning Resource Center

The establishment of the center is funded by the DOST-SEI. Six computers are housed in the center to provide a venue for scholars to develop their creative abilities and manipulative skills using the modern technology available. The center will also provide opportunities for the scholars to manage and value technological resources. It gives the scholars easy access to information on the net at minimal cost.

Laboratory Services

Science Laboratory Rooms

All PNU science laboratory rooms were designed to be a place where the science majors can perform their researches and where teachers can conduct classroom experiments with ease and safety. The rooms are provided with water supply and sink, electrical outlets, and cabinets for storage. There is also a big teacher’s worktable where demonstrations can be performed. Each room is provided with a whiteboard, a blackboard and a graphing board to suit the teacher’s need. In response to the need to maximize resources, the rooms are also utilized for lectures. However, the use of the room for laboratory classes is prioritized.

Physics Laboratory Room

The college has one physics lab located on the Taft wing of the Main Building. It is relatively well equipped with instruments required for the performance of experiments in Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, Electronics and Optics. At present, the room is being utilized both for laboratory work and lectures. Aside from the undergraduate physics and non-physics majors, the room is also used by graduate students in science as well as by participants in short-term courses offered by the PNU RSTC.

Chemistry Laboratory Rooms

The chemistry students are alternately using two laboratory rooms, Rm. 210 on the second floor of the main building and Rm. 118 on the ground floor of the main building. Both laboratory rooms house instruments for the performance of laboratory experiments and researches in chemistry and non-chemistry as well as the most commonly used glassware. Both rooms cater to chemistry and non-chemistry majors for their experiments and lectures, Just like the physics lab, the room is also used by graduate students in science as well as by participants in short term courses offered by the PNU RSTC.

Biology Laboratory Room

The biology laboratory room is also located on the second floor of the main building, adjacent to the physics lab. Just like the other laboratory rooms, it is also used as a lecture room when no class is using it for experiments. It houses the most commonly used biology instruments like microscopes as well as serves as storage for the bigger equipment. And of course, the room is also used by graduate in students in science as well as by participants in short-term courses offered by the PNU-RSTC.

The PNU Mathematics Laboratory

The PNU Mathematics Laboratory is a classroom of the future. It is a classroom, laboratory, and resource room rolled into one. It is a place where teachers try to make mathematics more meaningful to students by relating theory to practice.

The aim of the Mathematics Laboratory is primarily to provide a laboratory and workshop for the learning of mathematics that creates and maintains exploration, discovery and problem solving. Secondly, it aims to be a center of mathematical information at PNU where mathematics resources, books, interactive multi-media materials and audio-visual equipment are kept for easier access by all mathematics faculty and students.

At present, about 20 basic education classes recite in the laboratory. Its equipment includes four state-of-the-art computers with the latest software, a TV, VCR, OHP and karaoke player. More significantly, it houses a host of PROBE-donated manipulative and devices (e.g. graphing, scientific and OHP calculators) that are of great importance in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Food and Clothing Laboratory

The Foods and Clothing Laboratory is the former Multipurpose Hall. It is located at the ground floor of the HRD Building. It is situated at the right wing of the building immediately below the HRD Auditorium. The room is used both as a lecture and laboratory place for the Home Economics and Nutrition and Dietetics students. It is also the place where the students conduct their researches and experiments in foods and nutrition.

The Laboratory consists of a very spacious area divided into three major sections:

• The Kitchen – found at the rear end of the room, it consists of facilities such as a 10-ft 2-door refrigerator, two (2) stainless sinks; four (4) gas ranges; wooden cabinets and working tables. Adjoining the kitchen is a long table used for services, a blackboard used for small lectures and a demonstration mirror for cooking demonstration purposes.
• The Sewing Room—adjoining the kitchen and beside the lecture room for foods is the Clothing room. The room consists of five (5) cutting tables and twenty (20) sewing machines. There is also a fitting cabinet with mirror and dresser. Connected to this room is a small lecture hall that can accommodate around thirty students.
• The Lecture Room—next to the kitchen is the lecture room for Foods classes. The room can accommodate about forty (40) students at a time.

The PNU Livelihood Laboratory

The PNU Livelihood Laboratory room is a place for training and developing the manual skills of the students. It is a multipurpose room whereby students are trained to use basic hand equipments for practical use.

Projects in the handicraft and other related works are planned, prepared and developed by the students in the shop. It is also the place where the students explore their creativity in producing marketable products that will enhance their entrepreneurial skills/activity.

 

Linkages

Through its mission to promote the development of expertise in science, the college extends services to different schools and likewise receives the same.

The Department of Science and Technology- Science Education Institute has its Regional Science Training Center (RSTC) for NCR and Region IV based at PNU. Through this center, the college offers training programs to upgrade secondary and elementary school teachers’ competence in the field of science and mathematics teaching. Because of this, the college constantly receives from DOST-SEI equipment, technology upgrades and scholarships to faculty.

DOST also provides scholarships for preservice students in the area of Physics, Chemistry and Math under DOST Project 8102, Project 9001, Project 5801 & RA 7687.

PNU is a member of the Inter-Institutional Consortium (I-IC). Through the Science Committee of the IIC, the college shares its resources to the different member schools. It broadens its perspective by interacting with other member institutions in multifarious activities.

Faculty members of the college were sent to Australia to attend The Philippine-Australian Project in Basic Education (PROBE), a joint project of the two governments with focus on supporting education in English, Science and Mathematics. As part of the grant, these PROBE fellows initiate pre-service and in-service teacher education trainings for other Teacher Education Institutions. Likewise, they are involved in the production of supplementary learning materials, which are also shared with other schools.

The college, as with the rest of PNU, also maintains close coordination with public national high schools for the internship of its senior science majors. As such, university supervisors from the college visit these schools when the interns have their demonstration teaching. This activity allows for sharing of ideas between the university supervisors and the public high school teachers. For PNU, this activity servers as a feedback from the field, and on the part of the schools, an updating of methodologies and concepts.

The faculty members of the college also serve as resource persons for other TEIs and often give lectures and training to their faculty and students.