The UP College of Law (LAW) emerged as champion of the Philippine National Rounds at the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held virtually from Feb. 26 to March 1. For the fifth consecutive year, the LAW team will represent the country in the competition’s global rounds. According to the International Law […]

Two graduate students from the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) recently won the first and third prizes of the first ever Loretta Makasiar Sicat (LMS) Prize for the Social Sciences. Sanny Boy Afable won the top prize for his thesis on depression among older Filipinos entitled “Demographic Correlates of Late-life Depression in […]

For two consecutive years, UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) graduates led the roster of passers of the Social Worker Licensure Examination (SWLE) administered by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Board of Social Workers. Alain Matteo Ferrer Meneses topped the 2022 SWLE with an 85.60 percent rating, while Sofia Clare […]

It’s been said that UP Diliman (UPD) is home to some of the most diligent students in the country, and when looking at the performance of UPD College of Architecture graduate Lance Nathan Lim in the January Architect and February Master Plumber Licensure Examinations, it’s easy to agree.   Lim, who graduated magna cum laude […]

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA) on, Feb. 14, launched the online back-to-school kit, “Start UPD.” Start UPD is a comprehensive compendium of updated student-related resources and services, academic support programs, COVID-19 support services, academic policies for the semester and related memoranda, updates on remote/blended learning, mental health and psychosocial support, […]

The UP Law Stetson Team is the champion of the 26th Stetson Annual International Environmental Moot Court Competition Southeast Asian Regional Rounds (SEARR) held virtually from Jan. 24 to 28.

All five UP Diliman (UPD) examinees in the October 2021 Nutritionist-Dietitian Licensure Examination passed, with two entering the top five. Mark Anthony Arlante whose 90.15 percent rating and Samantha Roque’s 89.95 percent rating landed them in third and fourth place, respectively. Joining them are Denise Claire Baltazar, Klaris Andrea Agcaoili, and Jose Raphael Sanchez. According […]

Andre Judiel Parabas, a student of the College of Home Economics (CHE), recently bagged the top prize in the wellness and health category of the 10th jumpthegap Roca International Design Contest for designing a biodegradable home urine rapid-testing kit. Parabas’s rapid-testing kit, named the P-Kit, is designed to be low-cost, biodegradable, and rapid, able to […]

UP Diliman (UPD) was the top performing school in the October 2021 Chemical Engineer Licensure Examinations, and adding to that, Al Christian R. Gobres notched the top spot with an 84 percent rating. All 14 examinees passed the examinations, making UPD the only school who fielded 10 or more examinees to get a 100-percent passing […]

A group of UP Diliman scholars under the Space Technology Applications, Mastery, Innovation, and Advancement (STAMINA4Space) Program is set to build the largest earth observation satellite the Philippines has ever deployed. The 16-strong team who will build the satellite, named Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA), is composed of project manager John Leur Labrador, Julie […]