Statement of the UPD University Council on Senate Bills 2094, 1156, and 1840

Former UP College of Human Kinetics (CHK) dean and baseball coach, Artemio O. Isidro, passed away on Oct. 12. The CHK dean from May 1, 1993 to April 30, 1996, Isidro began his UP service in the early 1970s as instructor under the then Department of Physical Education. He was the UP Varsity Baseball Team […]

Former UP College of Arts and Letters Department of European Languages (DEL) administrative assistant Dominador C. Policarpio passed away on Aug. 29. He was 74. Mang Domeng, or Kuya Domeng, is fondly remembered as a quiet, friendly, and helpful staff at DEL. Former UP Diliman (UPD) students may remember him assisting students back in days […]

Beloved. That is how to best describe Prof. Ruben Figueroa Balane of the UP College of Law (CL) who passed away on Oct. 11. He was 80. In preparing this piece and scouring through posts online, this writer saw how well respected and how well loved Balane was by his colleagues and former students. Not […]

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 […]

The UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor released today, October 12, Memorandum No. FRN-21-162: Reissuance of Memorandum No. FRN-20-058 (Guidelines for Suspension of Remote Learning Activities Based on Storm Signals).  

Commission on Human Rights (CHR) chairperson, Jose Luis Martin “Chito” C. Gascon, passed away on Oct. 9 from COVID-19, the CHR announced. He was 57. Gascon was the youngest member of both the Constitutional Commission that drafted the 1987 Constitution and the 8th Philippine Congress, in which he was tasked with preparing the draft articles […]

Former UP Institute for Small-Scale Industries (ISSI) director, Paterno V. Viloria, Ph.D. passed away on Sept. 22. He was 97. Viloria started working in ISSI in 1968 and became its third director from 1976 to 1979. During his term as ISSI director, Viloria co-founded the Small Enterprises Research and Development Foundation (SERDEF), a private company […]