Books by UP Diliman (UPD) authors were part of the 31 titles the UP Press recently launched at Semeyaan: Paglulunsad ng mga Bagong Aklat ng UP Press 2023. Seven were authored or co-authored by faculty members from the UPD Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas / DFPP. The authors, editors, and UP Press officials and staff. Photo by Jerald DJ. Caranza, UPDIO The books are Maliit na Bagay Lang ang Nakapupuwing by Rommel B. Rodriguez, PhD, a professor at the DFPP; Mula Ilog…

A group of UP Diliman scholars under the Space Technology Applications, Mastery, Innovation, and Advancement (STAMINA4Space) Program is set to build the largest earth observation satellite the Philippines has ever deployed. The 16-strong team who will build the satellite, named Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA), is composed of project manager John Leur Labrador, Julie Ann Banatao (systems engineer and technical lead), Edgar Paolo Violan (mechanical analysis engineer), Manuel Del Rosario Jr. (attitude and orbit control system hardware and global positioning system engineer), Daniel Fadi…

(Oct. 21) — The Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing and UP Press held the seventh installment of the Interdisciplinary Book Forum (IBF) on Oct. 17 at the CAL AVR (PH1209-1210), Pavilion 1, Palma Hall.  The IBF was established in 2016. Held once every semester, it seeks to provide an academic venue in which to realize the imperative for dialogue and intellectual engagement across the various disciplines in the university.  The book-in-focus for this iteration was 3 Baybayin Studies (2017) by Ramon Guillermo,…

(AUG. 3)—UP National Institute of Physics (NIP) professor Maricor N. Soriano, PhD, received the 2018 Outstanding R&D Awards for the Emerging Technology Category from Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD). The award is open to all research and development (R&D) projects undertaken for the last three years by Filipino scientists, researchers and engineers from universities and colleges, R&D institutions, and private industries under DOST-PCIEERD’s sectoral concerns clustered into four categories: Industrial Technology, Energy, Utilities and Systems, Emerging Technology, and Special Concerns. Soriano…

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NameAffiliationArticle TitleJournal (Volume and Issue/ Number)Page NumbersAlcala, Nestor G.Reyes, Noli N.Institute of Mathematics,College of ScienceSampling in a Weighted Sobolev SpaceComptes Rendus Mathematique, Volume 350, Issues 21 – 22941 – 944Balmaceda, Jose Maria P.Maralit, Jryl P.Institute of Mathematics, College of ScienceLeonard Triples from Leonard Pairs Constructed from the Standard Basis of the Lie Algebra sl2Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Volume 437, Number 71961 – 1977Banzon, IsabelaDepartment of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters“Buying Time”, “Room for a Beginning”, and “Simple Plan on the South Luzon Expressway”Westerly,…