Ni  Haidee C. Pineda (MAR. 31) — Opisyal na itinalaga noong Marso 1 bilang direktor ng Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) si Dr. Rommel B. Rodriguez, kawaksing propesor (associate professor) sa Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas (DFPP) sa Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura (KAL). Siya ang humalili kay Dr. Rosario Torres-Yu bilang direktor […]

By Benito V. Sanvictores Jr. (MAR. 20) – Dr. Ernesto Pernia, Professor Emeritus at the UPD School of Economics, and Dr. Gonzalo Serafica, Visiting Scientist at the College of Engineering, received the 2015 Severino and Paz Koh Lectureship Awards for Science and Engineering, respectively, at the 2015 Annual PAASE Meeting and Symposium (APAMS). Pernia is […]

By Albino C. Gamba Jr. (MAR. 18)— The National Institute of Physics (NIP) and two of its faculty members were honored by the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) during the NRCP’s 82ndGeneral Membership Assembly on March 11 at the Philippine International Convention Center. NIP received the 2014 NRCP Outstanding Institution Award, while Dr. […]

In the agreement, DS will give UPD engineering students access to its 3DEXPERIENCE, a business experience platform that can create things like machinery in a virtual environment.

By Pearlyn Manalo, images by the Rushurgent Working Group   (FEB. 23)—Local and foreign experts from different fields of the earth sciences gathered to discuss new findings and innovations in the international symposium “Crust-mantle evolution in active arcs” convened by the Rushurgent-Working Group (RWG) of the University of the Philippines – National Institute of Geological […]

By Benito V. Sanvictores Jr., image by Leonardo A. Reyes. (FEB. 3) – The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) and Loei Rajabhat University, Thailand (LRU) entered into a 3-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Feb. 2 at the UPD Office of the Chancellor. UPD and LRU agreed to develop activities in areas of mutual […]

(FEB. 2)—Dr. Jose Dalisay Jr. served as a Pacific Leadership Fellow with the Center for Emerging and Pacific Economies at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies of the University of California, San Diego from January 20 to 30. Dalisay is a Professor 12 with the Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL) at […]

  By Albino C. Gamba Jr., image by Jefferson Villacruz (JAN. 7)—The Senate of the Philippines honored Dr. Alonzo A. Gabriel of the UPD College of Home Economics (CHE) on Dec 15 for being one of the 2014 Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP). Gabriel was recognized under the […]

Text and images by Benito V. Sanvictores Jr. (November-December)—When you thought every information you need is in the web, think again. The Microforms Section of the University of the Philippines (UP) Main Library contains information “you will not find online,” Grace Tabiendo, Media Services Head, said. With a collection of 12,975 reels of microfilms (MCF) […]