College of Music (CMu) student Ryle Nicole Q. Custodio wins the top prize in the inaugural Composition Competition of the 2021 Busan Choral Festival & Competition (BCFC). According to a July 20 news posted in the BCFC website, Custodio’s winning piece “Tagu-Taguan” for Soprano-Alto-Tenor-Bass (SATB) a capella bested 54 other works from 28 countries for […]

Team Fighting Balloons of the UP Virata School of Business (VSB) was declared the first grand champion of the 2021 Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Student Case Competition Global Finals last Jul. 10 via Zoom. The Fighting Balloons beat the teams from India and Romania. Fighting Balloons, composed of Nicole Chelsey Pua, Clarizze Faye Mondoy, […]

One would be forgiven for thinking a student who has reached summa cum laude status twice for vastly different programs would find studying easy, but for Michelle Mariel Mariposa, it has not. Mariposa who graduates summa cum laude this year as a BA Music major, had her first “summa” in 2016 when she graduated from […]

Every UP Diliman examinee who took the July 2021 Metallurgical Engineering Licensure Exam passed, giving the University a 100 percent passing rate, with three examinees landing on the top five. All 10 first-time examinees from UPD joined 20 others who managed to pass the examinations administered by the Board of Metallurgical Engineering in Manila and […]

Overcoming the challenges of remote learning was the thread that bound all performances at the Parangal sa Mag-aaral 2021, held on Jun. 22, 6 p.m. and—for the first time—virtually over the Facebook pages of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA) and the Diliman Interactive Learning Center (DILC) YouTube channel. The over […]

UP Virata School of Business’ (VSB) Fighting Balloons was declared grand champion in the 2021 Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Asia Pacific Student Case Competition. The Fighting Balloons team, composed of Nicole Chelsey Pua, Clarizze Faye Mondoy, Von Salosagcol, Isaiah Inocencio, and Jamila Domingo, analyzed the business case “Should Star Textile Cut Out the Intermediaries?” […]

Students from the College of Fine Arts (CFA) “re-drew” history by recreating illustrations of pre-Hispanic Filipinos from The Boxer Codex, imbuing the images with their own modern perspective as part of “The Boxer Codex Reimagined,” a project for “Engkwentro,” the UP Diliman Arts and Culture Festival 2021. Exhibited on Apr. 26 in an online gallery, […]

A student from the College of Home Economics (CHE) Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution (DHRIM) emerged as the winner in the 2021 International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) Hotel Challenge, an online competition that tested participants’ skills in managing a simulated hotel.