“Our UP Naming Mahal will continue to ensure diversity, inclusivity, and respect as driving forces towards honor, excellence, kindness, and compassion. And as a leader of our academic community… I will choose kindness. Our community deserves no less. The Filipino people deserve no less.” This was the statement of UP’s 22nd president Angelo Azura Jimenez during the turnover ceremony Singkaban at Balanghai: Pasasalamat at Pagsalubong, at the Quezon Hall lobby. Turnover of the UP Mace from Concepcion (right) to Jimenez (left). Photo by Jefferson…

As part of a collaborative academic and cultural program between Austria and the Philippines, 30 students from the University of Innsbruck recently visited UP Diliman (UPD). The visit is part of the 20th Asian Studies Program (ASP), an activity of the Department of Political Science of the University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the UPD College of Science Institute of Mathematics (IM), and the Erasmus Mundus Mobility Asia. Jose Maria P. Balmaceda, PhD, a professor of mathematics at the IM and the UPD Coordinator for ASP 2023, said ASP is part…

“Isang karangalan ang maglingkod bilang dekano. Nais ko pong iparating sa lahat na narito po ako kasama ang buong AIT, mga kaguruan at mga kawani. Handa po kaming tumulong, magserbisyo ng tapat at ganap, may puso, may utak. Handang magserbisyo ng makatao para sa turismo.” This was Giovanni Francis A. Legaspi’s promise as he was formally installed as the ninth dean of the UP Diliman (UPD) Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT) on Feb. 3 at the AIT Lounge. Legaspi. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz,…

In light of the recent news on the abduction at the Cebu City Port Area of two UP Cebu (UPC) constituents, and a spate of documented cases of harassment and intimidation against members of the UP community, UP Faculty Regent Carl Marc L. Ramota called for the creation of the Committee to Protect and Uphold Academic Freedom and Human Rights on Jan. 18. Ramota. Photo from Ramota’s Facebook page According to the Office of the Faculty Regent (OFR), Ramota is…

Administrative Order No. PDLC 23-01: Instituting a Search Process for the Next Chancellor of UP Diliman and Constituting a Search Committee ThereforDownload

The latest issue of Humanities Diliman is now available online. The July–December 2022 issue (Vol. 19, No. 2) of the Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed, open-access journal features six articles and one review. The cover of the latest issue of Humanities Diliman. Photo from the UPD Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development Research Dissemination Office Remaking Against Removal: Protest Artmaking in Sitio San Roque Against the Neoliberal State’s Aesthetic Regime by Jose Monfred C. Sy is about…

2023 Search for the Next UPD College of Architecture Dean: Announcement of Nominees and Schedules of the Public Forum and InterviewsDownload

2022 Search for the Next UPD College of Architecture DeanDownload

Thirteen distinguished UP Diliman (UPD) faculty were conferred the title Professor Emeritus by the UP Board of Regents at its 1376th meeting on Nov. 25. Five faculty came from the social sciences and law cluster (SS&L); the arts and letters cluster (A&L) and the science and technology cluster (S&T) each had three faculty members conferred the title; while the management and economics cluster (M&E) had two. The UPD College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) had the most number of new professors emeriti with three, followed by the UPD College of…