September 4, 2016

Chancellor Tan issues an update

The UP Fighting Maroons kicked off the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 79 in style as they held the annual Pep Rally last Aug. 24 at the University Theater. Twice that afternoon (3 p.m. and 6 p.m.), the University Theater was filled to the rafters with cheering athletes and fans as the […]

    In celebration of its 100th year of business education in the Philippines, the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business (VSB), in cooperation with the ASEAN University Network for Business and Economics (AUN-BE), hosted a conference to discuss the impacts and prospects of the ASEAN integration in the region’s business and economic community. The […]

The Department of Linguistics (DL) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy celebrated the life and work of Ernesto Constantino, avid folklorist and a pioneering figure in Philippine linguistics last Aug. 25 with “Paglingon,” a lecture series held at the Bulwagan ng Dangal. Constantino served the university for 36 years beginning […]

Francisca “Babes” Custodio, a veteran radio practitioner and DYVL’s station manager from Tacloban City,  graced the UP Film Institute’s red carpet on Aug. 24 to receive the prestigious Gawad Plaridel 2016 award. The UP College of Mass Communication (CMC) honored Custodio as the 12th recipient of the Gawad Plaridel Award for her outstanding contribution to […]

  A team of faculty members, engineers and musicians from UP Diliman combined art, engineering and science to create a quality classical guitar for Juan Dela Cruz and which may hopefully revive the declining industry of guitar-making in the Philippines. Gitara ni Juan (GnJ) project. The UP College of Music (CMu), in collaboration with the […]

They say necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of popular global positioning system (GPS)-based navigation app Waze, frustration and a gift were the seeds that drove its creators to find a better way to navigate the busy streets of Tel Aviv, Israel. Dror Cohen, Ads Product Manager and one of the original […]

The latest issues of UP Diliman’s (UPD) three refereed journals “Humanities Diliman” (Vol. 13 No. 2), “Science Diliman” (Vol. 28 No. 1) and “Social Science Diliman” (Vol. 12 No. 1) are now online. Edited by Dr. Reuben Ramas Cañete, “Humanities Diliman” has six articles: “Ang Talaban ng Pangingibabaw at Pagtutol sa Pangingibabaw sa Manga Tagobilin […]

  Six researchers from UP Diliman were among the 12 Filipinos honored as world-class by The Philippines Promising Star Awards 2016 of Thomson Reuters on Jul. 26. Honored were Clarissa C. David (College of Mass Communication) and Armand Salvador Mijares (Archaelogical Studies Program) for Social Science; Joseph M. Pasia (College of Science/CS) for Computer Science; […]