At his investiture, UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II outlined UPD’s direction in the next three years. Under his stewardship, Vistan said the University will focus on three strategic directions: (1) mainstreaming of a culture of honor and excellence, (2) pursuing sustainable development more aggressively, and (3) developing the campus as a […]

UP Diliman (UPD) through the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA) of the UPD College of Arts and Letters (CAL) just signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) through its LASALLE College of the Arts (LASALLE). According to its website, the UAS is Singapore’s first arts […]

The UP Diliman (UPD) Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT) and the Department of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management (HRIM) of the UPD College of Home Economics jointly organized the Philippine Research Conference on Tourism and Hospitality 2023 (PRCTH 2023) held from Oct. 23 to 24 at the AIT Lounge. PRCTH 2023 carried the theme Reimagining […]

Dominador R. Castañeda was said to be a teacher who paints and inspires. This was how Robert Paulino, PhD, a professor at the Department of Art Studies of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Arts and Letters, described Castañeda, the former director (1955-1962) of the UP School of Fine Arts (SFA). Interest in Castañeda recently […]

The University has recently entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) and memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 (Untag) Surabaya through the Department of Communication Research (DCommRes) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Mass Communication (CMC). Untag Surabaya is a university in Surabaya, East Java in Indonesia. According to its […]

At the launch of his fifth book, National Artist for Music Ramon P. Santos said the term music that the country inherited from the West “cannot fully define the wealth of sound expressions in the world that we live in.” “In fact, after 65 years of study in this field, I have come to realize […]

To kick off its 40th anniversary celebration, the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) paraded around the Academic Oval in the morning of Oct. 9. In a correspondence with UPDate Online, the CSSP said the activity “will serve as an opportunity to gather and unite CSSP faculty, staff, and students to […]

Raymund Gerard I. Guerrero, an assistant professor at the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Home Economics (CHE), has been named the new Philippine representative to Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA). According to their website, APTA is “an internationally acclaimed association in the field of tourism and hospitality” and is one of the largest tourism-hospitality associations […]

The UP Diliman College of Home Economics (CHE) launched a commemorative e-recipe book on Sept. 25 at the CHE complex as one of the activities commemorating CHE’s 62nd founding anniversary. Tara, Igma Ta! Kaon Ran! contains 100 recipes divided into five chapters: CDC Snacks!, Padayon ND Recipes, What’s in Your Kitchen Recipes, Tearoom, and Contributed […]

For its fifth anniversary, the UP Diliman (UPD) Technology Transfer and Business Development Office (TTBDO) announced a campus-wide intellectual property (IP) and technology transfer caravan to help UPD faculty and researchers protect and benefit from their research projects. The plans for the TTBDO caravan were one of the topics of the roundtable discussion of deans […]