(AUG. 18) —Spectacular song and dance numbers from UP Diliman (UPD) performing groups, inspirational messages from university officials, enthusiastic introductions from the college deans and a fierce display of academic freedom by the student council and student activists welcomed the new batch of Iskolar ng Bayan at the “Freshie Welcome Assembly 2017” (FWA) on Aug. […]

Dr. Porfirio M. Aliño, The Marine Science Institute (MSI) professor, was conferred the 2017 Pantas Award (Outstanding Research/Scientist category) by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (PCAARRD-DOST). His citation reads “for his sustained commitment to research on coral reefs and associated ecosystems […]

UP Celebrates Buwan ng Wika with the restaging of Putri Anak, Isang Bagong Komedya

The Small-Scale  Mining (SSM) Industry comprises up to 75 percent of the country’s gold production, and from 2007-2008, contributed P32 billion to the Gross Domestic Product. Green mining. In 2009, a group of scientists and students from the UPD College of Engineering Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (DMMME) managed to create a system […]

To succeed, there should be better integration among member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community (AEC). This was the general consensus among four political economists at the public forum “National Interest and the ASEAN Economic Community: Convergence or Competition?” held Aug. 17 at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium. The political […]

UP Diliman (UPD) held a necrological service to honor its fifth chancellor, Dr. Roger D. Posadas, on Aug. 24 at the Loyola Memorial Chapel along Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City. Paying their last respects were former colleagues in the academe, friends and former students. Among those who spoke were UP President Danilo L. Concepcion, former UP […]

OVPAA Memo Online Survey on Evaluation of the University Online survey

UP Diliman welcomes the memo from UP President Danilo Concepcion, which provides that “no tuition and other school fees shall be colelcted from Filipino undergraduate students” throughout the UP System.  The memo was issued “in the spirit of the recently promulgated Universal Access to Tertiary Education (Republic Act No. 10931) signed into law last Friday […]

(AUG. 8) — A recent study on Filipino women who use contraceptives showed that in the past 10 years, one in every three women relied more on traditional contraceptive methods rhythm and withdrawal than modern methods. The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Working Paper “Ten Years of Traditional Contraceptive Method Use in the Philippines: Continuity […]

Memorandum No. OVCAA-ECA 17-023 Chito_Angeles–CV_revised Chito Angeles–Vision Paper for the University Library Diliman – revised