Following Memorandum Circular No. 122 issued by the Office of the President and posted on the official Facebook pages of the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines and the Presidential Communications Office, government work in UP Diliman is suspended today, 6 Aug 2026.

Following Memorandum Circular No. 121 issued by the Office of the President and posted on the Presidential Communications Office’s official Facebook page, government work in UP Diliman is suspended today, 5 Aug. 2026, beginning at 3 p.m.

At a colloquium about research integrity in music and sound studies, keynote speaker Nina T. Castillo-Carandang, PhD suggested a Filipino approach to research integrity grounded in pakikipagkapwa sa pananaliksik. A professor of health sociology and global health at UP Manila Department of Epidemiology, Castillo-Carandang explained, “responsible conduct of research rests on respect for persons, beneficence, […]

UP Diliman (UPD), through the UPD College of Architecture (CA), and De La Salle University Dasmariñas (DLSU-D) have recently agreed to jointly conduct research and perform extension work for the next 12 months, to create a master plan for the DLSU-D campus in Cavite. Their collaboration’s primary output will be a conceptual comprehensive masterplan for […]

A team from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) University Network-Quality Assurance completed their site visit assessment from July 21 to 23 for two undergraduate degree programs in UP Diliman (UPD) on the way to certification. The assessment covered the Bachelor of Science in Biology and Bachelor of Science in Family Life and Child […]

A study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal this July discusses the presence of tigers in Palawan during the Pleistocene period. Janine Ochoa, PhD, archaeologist and associate professor at the UP Diliman (UPD) School of Archaeology (SA) revealed the presence of rare tiger (Panthera tigris) remains from Pilandok Cave in Quezon, Palawan Island, in the […]

In line with our commitment to environmental stewardship and campus sustainability, the UP Diliman Environmental Management Office, under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs, has officialy launched GreenUPDate.

UP Diliman (UPD) registered a 100% passing rate as all of its 19 examinees passed the July 2026 Licensure Examination for Interior Designers; in addition, five of them made it to the list of top 10 successful passers. In first place is Diane Kirsten Redeña at the top with an 88.05% rating. She is followed […]

UP Diliman (UPD) mourns the passing of professor emeritus and former College of Science (CS) dean Jose Maria “Joey” P. Balmaceda, PhD on July 16. Balmaceda began teaching in 1981 at the then Department of Mathematics (DM), now Institute of Mathematics (IM). From instructor, he rose to the position of professor 12, and eventually appointed […]