Cynthia Neri Zayas, PhD was among four Filipinos honored during the 2023 spring conferment of Japanese decorations for contributions to building Japan-Philippines bilateral relationships and strategic partnerships. A noted anthropologist, Zayas is the former director of the UP Diliman Center for International Studies (CIS), having served from 2011 to 2017. She is currently a professorial lecturer […]

UP Diliman (UPD) accomplished a 100 percent passing rate at the April 2023 Registered Electrical Engineer Licensure Examination when all of its 24 first-time takers passed. One of the UPD examinees also landed in the top 10. Charles Vincent Arandia ranked ninth with a 90.15 percent rating. The examinations were held in the National Capital […]

For the second consecutive year, UP Diliman (UPD) emerged as the lone top-performing school in the April 2023 Electronics Engineer Licensure Examination. Three of the examinees landed in the top 10: John Vincent Portugal ranked fourth (87.2%), Moises Angelo Sanchez ranked eighth (86.7%), and Constantine Nicolai Tan ranked ninth (86.4%). According to data released by […]

The UP Diliman (UPD) Confucius Institute (CI) recently entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen its ties with the City College of San Fernando Pampanga (CCSFP) and the City Government of San Fernando, Pampanga. The CI was among the higher education institutions (HEI) that signed an MOU with the CCSFP and the City […]

The UP Diliman (UPD) College of Mass Communication (CMC) is 35 years old. On April 28, the day of its anniversary as a college, UPD Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II paid the CMC a visit and CMC Dean Fernando dlC. Paragas toured him around the college. Vistan expressed his support for the college. He […]

Nine of the 12 UP faculty members who were recently appointed as professors emeriti are from UP Diliman (UPD). The appointments were approved by the UP Board of Regents at its 1379th meeting on April 3. Of the nine UPD faculty, six belong to the Science and Technology cluster (S&T), two are from the Management […]

Described as the consummate manager in the book At the Helm of UP: Presidential Accents, university professor of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Business Administration or CBA (now the Cesar E. A. Virata School of Business) and 14th president of the University, Emanuel Valdez Soriano, DBA passed away on April 22. As the executive […]

The Aguilar-San Juan (ASJ) Scholarship Grant of the Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Arts and Letters is now on its fifth year. The ASJ Scholarship Grant is open to undergraduate DECL students. The grant is given based on the applicant’s stellar academic standing or talent in […]

Amey Takod Num-A (Let’s Go to the Garden) by Precious Angelica A. Echague of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy tells the story of Kankanaey cut-flower farmers. It is also an examination of cut-flower farming in Sitio Lamut as a local knowledge system, providing livelihood and training to gardineros/locals. Echague said […]