Some 200 onsite and online participants gathered at the UP Institute for Small-Scale Industries (ISSI) for a learning series on the circular economy (CE) with the theme From Circularity to Enterprise Value: Building Bankability and Market Access for Circular MSMEs. The European Parliament website defines CE as a model of production and consumption “which involves […]

The UP Board at its 1413th meeting on Oct. 26, appointed Neil Martial R. Santillan, PhD as the 11th dean of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP). Santillan is a professor at the Department of History (DHist). Santillan served the University in various capacities. Santillan was CSSP associate dean for […]

In its bid to have Fray Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas included in the national and international registers of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, the UP Diliman (UPD) Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA), in partnership with the UPD College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP), UPD Department of History […]

Michelle D. Regulacio, PhD, a professor at the Institute of Chemistry (IC) was recently recognized as among the World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University and Elsevier. She was recognized both in the Single Recent Year and Career-Long categories in the 2026 global rankings. Regulacio is the principal investigator of IC Functional Inorganic Nanomaterials […]

Studying the retablos of Silang, Cavite all the more validated the richness of Philippine art and firmly established the long-standing relations between the country and Mexico. Tracing Philippine Colonial Arts: The Heritage Provenance of the 17th Century Retablos of Silang, Cavite by Philip N.A.L. Medina tackled concepts that dealt with the influence and/or presence of […]

Marking 50 years of tourism education and the observance of Tourism Month in September, the UP Asian Institute Tourism (AIT) recently held its inaugural 2026 Graduate Student Conference with the theme Exploring Local and Indigenous Concepts in Tourism. UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II emphasized the need to rethink tourism knowledge by […]

UP Diliman (UPD) completed the external quality assessment of three academic programs to uphold its mandate to deliver quality education. The external quality review visit of the Master of Science (Geography) and Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy) programs under the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy and the Bachelor of Public Administration program under the National […]

The UP Diliman Marine Science Institute (MSI) and its partner institutions introduced the 20 new Lawod fellows during the launch of the Kalalawdan Fellowship Program Batch 2. Kalalawdanis a Waray word for the ocean or sea, derived from lawod which refers to the deep sea or open ocean. According to the MSI, the Lawod fellows […]

Two UP Diliman (UPD) projects to help dialysis and stroke patients with their quality of life have bagged two of the top three prizes in the 2026 James Dyson Award Philippines. BiDaKidney by Andew Jacob Buensalido and Allyson Cabrestante and OrthoFlex by Jabez Bote and Ada Koreen Bacay emerged as the national winner and national […]

It is indeed safe to say that the first QAhusayan Fair of the UP Diliman (UPD) Quality Assurance Office (QAO) successfully ended with a loud bang. The fair, with the theme Empowering Excellence through a Culture of Quality and held from Sept. 7 to 11 in various UP Diliman (UPD) locations, aimed to highlight academic […]