All 26 first-time examinees from the UP Diliman College of Architecture (CA) passed the January 2024 Licensure Examination for Architects, giving the University a 100% passing rate. Among the examinees from the CA, four landed in the top 10. The examinees were led by Kryzia Maryzela Ortiz who garnered an 84.7% rating (ranked third). She […]

Over 120 ongoing and completed research projects providing solutions to nine of the United Nations’ (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) were featured in the 2023 edition of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Engineering’s (COE) annual Professorial Chair Awards (PCA) colloquium. The 2023 UPD Faculty Manual defines a professorial chair as “a form of recognition […]

It was a reunion of sorts as long-time friends and family gathered on Jan. 26 at the launch of Observing the Filipino Family: A Filipino Sociologist at Work [Observing the Filipino Family], the latest book of Belen Tan-Gatue Medina, PhD at the Palma Hall lobby. The audience turnout was quite impressive as two UP presidents, […]

UP Diliman (UPD) and the Department of Science and Technology Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) recently signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU). The MOU aims for both parties to collaboratively develop activities that would see “exchange of academic information and materials, collaborative research activities, adjunct professorships, lectures and symposia, and student internships.” In […]

The UP Film Institute (UPFI) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Mass Communication now has an online database of UPFI students’ audiovisual (AV) theses. A collaborative project of the UPFI Research and Film Archives, the UPFI Student Thesis AV Collection Database (AV Database) provides users with remote access to UPFI students’ theses that were […]

UP Diliman (UPD), the UPD College of Architecture (CA), and the UPD School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) extended its condolences to the family of former faculty member Josefina “Josie” Ramos, PhD, who passed away on Jan. 21. “Dr. Ramos was among the first members of the UPCA faculty who laid and developed the […]

UP Diliman (UPD) bid farewell to two of its former deans: Josefa M. Saniel, PhD, professor emeritus of the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), now UPD Asian Center (AC), and Leticia Cecilia Z. Peñano-Ho, PhD, retired professor of the UPD College of Education (CEd). According to an AC website post accessed on Jan. 15, Saniel […]