Genison Basilio (left) with President Joseph Biden (Source: ANC)
Genison Basilio, who finished his Operations Research and Data Analysis course with flying colors at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He was one of the four cadet exchange students that the Philippine Coast Guard sent to the US four years ago after a stringent selection process (See ABS-CBN for story).
Dr. Rodney Santos
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) researcher Dr. Rodney Perez is the first Filipino to win the Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize awarded by the Society for Biotechnology in Japan (SBJ) (See Good News Pilipinas for story).
Dante Balboa
Another Guinness World Record holder might come from the Philippines, and he is Dante Balboa or Elmer Anisco in real life (actor, multi-degree holder, professor and tourism advocate) who visited, discovered, and documented more than 1,000 waterfalls through his own efforts and expenses without the help of any government agencies and private sector (See Manila Bulletin for story).
Chef Morris Danzen (left) along with “Gino Cerca Chef” hosts Gino D’Acampo and Fred Sirieix
Chef Morris Danzen, a poor boy from Calumpit, Bulacan, became the Grand Champion of prestigious cooking competition in Italy titled “Gino Cerca Chef,” in which some 2,000 chefs participated (See MabuhayNews.CA for story)..
John Carlo Tulinao and his students (Source: ANCX)
How does a teacher make a first grader grasp the many complex concepts in science, technology, engineering and math? For Arizona-based Filipino teacher John Carlo Tulinao, music helps a lot. “I teach them the physics, the science of music,” says the 30-year-old Antipolo-born educator (See ABS-CBN News for story).
Yuka Saso holds the trophy after winning the 2021 U.S. Women's Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California on Sunday, June 6, 2021. (Darren Carroll/USGA)
The Philippines’ Yuka Saso bounced back from two early double bogeys and held off Japan’s Nasa Hataoka in the third hole of a sudden death playoff to win the 76th U.S. Women’s Open golf championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco on Sunday. She’s the first Filipino to win the tournament (See Inquirer.net for story).
Farrell Eldrian Wu
A Filipino student, Farrell Eldrian Wu, 20, graduated a straight “A” student with a perfect GPA of 5.0, from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (See Manila Bulletin for story).
Nonito Donaire, Jr.
Nonito Donaire, Jr. became the oldest bantamweight champion in boxing history Saturday night with a rousing fourth-round knockout of Nordine Oubaali to claim the WBC title. This marks Donaire's third reign as bantamweight champion of the world (See DAZN.com for story).
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