(JUNE 27)—Sunflowers, sunshine and cloudy skies greeted the 4,612 graduates who received their respective degrees at UP Diliman’s 107th General Commencement Exercises at the University Amphitheater on June 24.  Wearing their sablay, the academic garb of the University, the graduates, along with their families and friends, arrived as early as 5:30 a.m. and converged at […]

Commencement Address University of the Philippines, 24 June 2018   President Danilo Concepcion, Chancellor Michael Tan, Dr. Prospero de Vera III, CHED OIC and Chairman of the UP Board of Regents, esteemed members of the Board of Regents, members of the faculty and university administration, our happy graduates and their proud parents, students, alumni, fellow […]

Prof. Adelaida V. Mayo, PhD of the Department of Clothing, Textile and Interior Design, College of Home Economics (CHE) was admitted to the Philippine Institute of Interior Designers (PIID) College of Fellows on May 26.  A PIID College Fellow is the highest honor PIID grants to its member “in recognition of his/her valuable contribution to […]

(JUN. 21)—Twenty-nine summa cum laude will lead the candidates for graduation at UP Diliman’s 107th General Commencement Exercises on June 24, 7 a.m. at the University Amphiteater. Senator Loren B. Legarda will also be conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the ceremony. The honorary Doctor of Laws degree is the University’s highest rank […]

Program Meet the Summa Commencement Speaker Commencement Speech The Chancellor’s Opening Remarks Message of the Class Representative Recognition Rites Traffic Advisory 29 top honors lead UPD graduation (JUN. 21)—Twenty-nine summa cum laude will lead the candidates for graduation at UP Diliman’s 107th General Commencement Exercises on June 24, 7 a.m. at the University Amphiteater. Senator […]

The leading media and communication journal in the Philippines is now indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus, as well as in Clarivate Analytics’ (formerly Thomson Reuters’) Web of Science and the ASEAN Citation Index. Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society is indexed in Scopus beginning with its 2018 volume. Plaridel articles can now be searched in one […]

(MAY 25)—UP Diliman (UPD) alumni landed in the top 2 posts of the recently concluded Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET-Elementary Level).   John Michael T. dela Paz topped the LET-Elementary Level with a rating of 88.80.  Following closely is Mary Angeline L. Cabal with 88.60.  Dela Paz graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Education […]

(MAY 24)—A new facility for weather forecasting at the UPD College of Science, Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology (IESM) was inaugurated on Mar 23. The Synoptic Laboratory serves as a laboratory room for meteorology, oceanography and climate graduate courses like Meteorology 203 – Methods of Analytical Meteorology and Oceanography, Meteorology 212 – Climate Monitoring […]

(May 21)—Dr. Ligaya G. Tiamson-Rubin, professor emerita and former chair of the UP College of Arts and Letters Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature (CAL-DFPP), passed away on May 18 due to complications from diabetes. She was 73.  Also known as Ma’am Gaying to peers and students, Tiamson-Rubin was born on Nov. 27, 1944 in […]

Of the top 378 higher education institutions (HEIs) from emerging economies in 2018, the University of the Philippines (UP) is ranked 166th, a significant rise from last year’s 201st-250th ranking, based on the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. read more…