Chemistry professor Florentino C. Sumera, PhD passed away on Oct. 18. He was 70. Sumera started teaching at UP Diliman (UPD) in 1976 as an instructor and eventually became a professor, a post he held until his retirement in 2016. He served as director of the UPD Institute of Chemistry from 1993 to 1996. Sumera […]

The Digital Public Pulse (DPP) project was launched on Oct. 27 via Zoom by the Philippine Media Monitoring Laboratory (PMM), a consortium of communication researchers, political scientists, and data scientists mostly from UP Diliman (UPD) and based at the UPD College of Mass Communication (CMC) Department of Communication Research (CommRes). The DPP project is an […]

One of the pillars of special education (SPED) in the country, Prof. Trinidad C. Baldo, PhD, passed away on Oct. 3. She was 83. Known for being kind, loyal, and supportive to both students and colleagues, Baldo was author of several modules in education. She also served as consultant and resource speaker at the Department […]

Some 600 individuals from at-risk populations such as the homeless and survivors of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation returned to the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Human Kinetics (CHK) vaccination site on Oct. 22 and 23 for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The individuals were the beneficiaries of a collaboration between the UPD COVID-19 […]

The UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, through the Technical Working Group on Biodiversity Management in UP Diliman (TWGBM UPD), will virtually launch the “Biodiversity Management Handbook” tomorrow, October 26, at 1 p.m. The event will be livestreamed on YouTube (https://bit.ly/BuhayIlangsaUPD). The launching dubbed as “Buhay Ilang sa UPD: Launch of the ‘Biodiversity Management Handbook’” […]

Ipinababatid ng Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs (OVCCA) na sa mga nabakunahan sa UP Diliman na hindi nakarating para sa kanilang iskedyul ng second dose ng Moderna o Sputnik V/Gamaleya vaccine ay pumunta lamang sa UP College of Human Kinetics Gym sa Sabado, Oktubre 23, 1:00-3:00 n.h. Mag-iwan ng mensahe sa OVCCA […]

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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 […]