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Maria Cristina Damasco-Padolina (born 1946) is the current and seventh President and Chief Academic Officer of
Centro Escolar UniversityCentro Escolar University is a private university in the Philippines. It was founded on June 3, 1907 by two women, Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna, and was originally called Centro Escolar de Señoritas. It became a university in 1933...
in Manila, Philippines.
Career
Born in
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, Padolina was educated in Chemical Engineering at the University of the Philippines and received her M.S. in Chemistry in 1967 at the
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. She obtained her
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in Inorganic Chemistry from the
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.
Padolina is a former commissioner at the
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and also a professor emeritus at the Institute of Chemistry,
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. She was also the chancellor of the UP Open University from March 1995 to February 2001. In 1999 Padolina received the Most Distinguished Alumna Award given by the UP Alumni Engineers. Padolina is a member of the Advisory Group of the National Health Promotion Committee, and was on the executive board of the Asian Association of Open Universities from 1998 to 2001. She was appointed as the University's President and Chief Academic Officer on September 2006, replacing the retiring
Rosita L. NavarroRosita Lozano-Navarro was the sixth President and Chief Academic Officer of Centro Escolar University in Manila, Philippines from 2001 to 2006. She was also the former Luzon Representative on the Teacher Education Council of the Department of Education of the Philippines...
. She led the university's centennial in 2007.