Retired UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC) administrative assistant Bienvenida C. Lacsamana passed away on August 27 at the age of 67. Fondly called “Ate Bien” or “Tita Bien,” her colleagues remember her being good natured and cheerful, and one who made working at TWSC enjoyable and light. Frequent callers to the TSWC offices would […]

After combing through over 90 entries, the UP College of Law (CL) revealed the contributors to its “first ever UP Law Literary Folio in the time of COVID-19.” To choose the works to be published in the online folio titled “Dito sa UP Law: Many Voices, One Community,” CL held a competition earlier this year […]

Prof. Emeritus Antonio “Tony” Ocampo Mabesa was honored with an Ani ng Dangal award.

The next generation of Maya cube satellites (cubesat), named Maya-3 and Maya-4, were launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center on August 29, 3:15 p.m. aboard a commercial rocket bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Measuring 10 x 10 x 11.35 cm with an estimated mass of 1.1 kg, both satellites are carrying […]

Prof. Ma. Joy V. Abrenica, PhD is the new dean of the UP Diliman (UPD) School of Economics (SE). Her appointment was approved by the UP Board of Regents at its special meeting on Aug. 20.  The ninth SE dean, Abrenica will serve until 2024. She succeeded Prof. Orville Solon, PhD. As dean, she envisions four […]

In celebration of its centennial anniversary, the UP Diliman College of Home Economics calls for contributions to their commemorative recipe book. For more details, visit https://bit.ly/This-is-HE-at-100, or scan the QR code below. Deadline for submission: March 1, 2022

Filipinos’ perceptions on quality of life amid the pandemic were the focus of discussion in the webinar “Kumustahin ang Bayan,” launched on Aug. 6. “Kumustahin ang Bayan,” the first in the webinar series “#PILIpiLUNAS 2022: Pagbangon at Pagsulong sa Magandang Buhay at Bukas,” (#PILIpiLUNAS 2022) had experts answering the question: “What issues will matter most […]

After a monthslong search, the UP Diliman (UPD) Asian Center (AC) now has a new dean: Prof. Henelito A. Sevilla Jr., PhD. Sevilla, who succeeded Prof. Joefe B. Santarita, PhD (2015-2018, 2018-2021) as dean, was appointed by the Board of Regents at its special meeting on Aug. 20. As AC dean, Sevilla will serve as […]

Writer, poet, playwright, and former humanities professor Virginia Reyes Moreno passed away on Aug. 14. She was 98. Known to her peers as “the high priestess” and “the empress dowager of Philippine poetry,” Moreno was a faculty member of the then UP College of Arts and Sciences in the late 1950s.  In 1959, she co-founded […]