Tess Borromeo is an NRCP Achievement Awardee

Tess is one of the NRCP achievement awardees

Congratulations to Teresita “Tess” Harina-Borromeo (Rodeo ’74). Tess is one of the recipients of the National Research Council of the Philippines’ Achievement Award for 2015 in the science area of agriculture & forestry. The award was given in a ceremony that coincided with the 82nd NRCP Scientific Meeting and General Membership Assembly on March 11, 2015 held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila.

Tess is a plant breeding expert and one of her areas of research is in germplasm conservation. She is a professor in the Department of Agronomy and the head of the Plant Genetic Resources Division, Crop Science Cluster, College of Agriculture, UP Los Baños.

You can read more about Tess in this Q & A post.