Two graduate students from the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) recently won the first and third prizes of the first ever Loretta Makasiar Sicat (LMS) Prize for the Social Sciences. Sanny Boy Afable won the top prize for his thesis on depression among older Filipinos entitled “Demographic Correlates of Late-life Depression in […]

To kick off the celebration of 100 years of broadcasting in the Philippines (100 YBP), the Department of Broadcast Communication (DBC) will feature an eight-part series of a Palawan folk epic on March 31, Thursday, 1 p.m. over DZUP 1602 khz. “Pag-uugat, Pagpapatuloy: Ang Epikong Dumaracol ng mga Tagbanua Kalamianen ng Hilagang Palawan” showcases never-before-heard […]

In preparation for the coming elections on May 9, the UP Law (LAW) Center Training and Convention Division and the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) recently held a live training program for military officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Reserve Command. Held on March 11, the training featured relevant discussions on constitutional and […]

The entire Academic Oval, from the front of the Oblation Plaza to Vinzons Hall including part of Roces Street between the old Faculty Center and the College of Engineering, will be closed to the public from March 19 (Saturday), 10 p.m. to March 22 (Tuesday), 9 p.m. to make way for the Special Bar Examinations […]

For the second day of the national conference “Bagumbayan: Stories of Place and Identity” (BAGUMBAYAN), 12 research papers were featured by UP scholars and national and international institutes of higher learning. Held on March 10 via Zoom and simultaneously livestreamed on the Facebook pages of the Folklore Studies Program (FSP) of the College of Social […]

Long-time UP Foundation, Inc. (UPFI) executive director and business administration professor Gerardo Agulto Jr. passed away on March 10.  A professor at the UP Diliman (UPD) Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business (VSB), Agulto was widely known as the UPFI executive director, having held the post from August 2001 until May 31, 2021. At the […]

Former College of Home Economics (CHE) dean Eva Beatriz Gonzalez passed away on Mar. 10. The daughter of former UP President Bienvenido Gonzalez, she began serving the University as an instructor in 1952. Gonzalez was instrumental in the establishment of the CHE Department of Family Life and Child Development, serving as its very first department […]