The University Administration and the CLSU Alumni Association, Inc. are leaving no stone unturned to elicit the active involvement of the CLSU alumni for the forthcoming celebration of the University's Centenary on April 12, 2007 to ensure that it will really become a momentous occasion.

Dr. Rodolfo C. Undan, CLSU President, and other University and CLSUAAI officials have been working in concert to reach the alumni from the country and abroad. In the past few months, they have been such countries as Thailand, Nepal and Brunei. This is apart from the constant communication President Undan has been having with a good number of alumni who are presently based in the USA, Canada and some other countries.

Said international alumni have pledged and or given not only their commitments and assurance that they are coming home to take part in the Centenary activities and celebrations.

Likewise, President Undan and the CLSUAAI officers have been keeping in touch with alumni and friends from state colleges and universities and various institutions in the country for the same purpose.

Dr. Undan is optimistic that the University will be able to reach its goal of raising a P100M Centennial Fund to support various notable projects and programs that will serve as `Centennial monuments' that will be of benefit to the present and future constituents and clientele of the University.

Meanwhile, the University, through its various Colleges and Institutes, has been holding activities every month as prelude to the Centennial celebration proper.

Sponsor of the August activities was the Institute of Graduate Studies headed by Dean Cynthia C. Divina. The IGS conducted the ``International Seminar on Biotechnology: harnessing the Potentials of Biological Resources`` last August 9-11 at the supreme Hotel, Baguio City. It was attended by 107 participants from various higher education institutions in the Philippines and from other countries as well.

Resource speakers were Dr. Gary Dykes of the University of Queensland; Dr. Udo Rau of the Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany; Dr. Midori Yoshizawa of Utsunomiya University, Japan; Dr. Giorgio Presiece of Italy and Dr. Kasem Soytong of King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand.

Moreover, the IGS in cooperation with Maejo University in Chiang Mai, and King Mongkut Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, both in Thailand, conducted the Philippine-Thailand Bi-National Conference on Graduate Education and Study Tour to Thailand of Filipino Graduate Students and Faculty from August 23 to September 2, 2006.

The activity served as a forum where Philippines and Thai graduate education stakeholder discussed current issues and trends in the different fields of education.; and as a means of highlighting the efforts of the Central Luzon State University in promoting service through education and thus contribute to the meaningful centennial celebration of the University, among other objectives.