(MAY 12)—Like most UP Diliman units, the UP School of Statistics (STAT) has projects addressing the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis. Foremost is the Schools’ involvement in the UP Resilience Institute and the UP System’s UP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team. Outbreak threshold statistics. Prof. Peter Julian Cayton, PhD and instructor Jan Gil Sarmiento provided relevant […]

(MAY 11)—The use of micro-satellites like Diwata-1 to measure cloud-top height is more cost-effective than regular satellites, a team of scientists said. The team is composed of professors from UP Diliman (UPD) and Hokkaido University (Hokudai) who authored the study “Determination of Cloud-top Height through Three-dimensional Cloud Reconstruction using DIWATA-1 Data,” published in the open-access […]

(MAY 9)—The UP Diliman Executive Committee today issued a statement calling the shutdown of ABS-CBN “a disservice to the Filipino people.” In the statement, the ExeCom emphasized that for the truth to stand above mendacity, there should be an “arena for contending views to debate.” It also said that the conditions for academic excellence are […]

The shutdown of ABS-CBN, especially in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, is a disservice to the Filipino people. We consider all broadcast media organizations, including ABS-CBN, as partners in engaging the public. They provide channels and platforms for bringing vital information to communities and other places which schools and universities are not able to […]

(MAY 8) ̶ UP Diliman (UPD) once again breaks its silence in light of the National Telecommunications Commission’s (NTC) Cease-and-Desist Order (CDO) against ABS-CBN Corporation. The Carillon bells will toll today at 6:30 p.m. in support of press freedom and in solidarity with the ABS-CBN employees. ABS-CBN reports NTC ordered the network to stop its […]

(MAY 8) — Five UP professors will talk about the status of creating art in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic through the online forum “UP Diliman Kanlungan Talk Series”(UPDKTS), today May 8, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Organized by the Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA) and will be launched via […]

Father of Philippine email Roberto “Obet” Verzola passed away on May 6 due to a lingering illness. He was 67.

(May 1)—The draconic move to quarantine Metro Manila is causing its residents much inconvenience and anxiety. At the same time, however, they are benefitting from cleaner air brought by the controlled mobility as a consequence of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). Experts from the College of Science and College of Engineering of the University of […]