A dedicated staff member of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Arts and Letters (CAL) Office of the Dean, Evelyn Dela Cruz Mariano, passed away on Sept. 16. She was 58. Mariano first worked at UPD on June 1, 1989 as a research assistant under then CAL dean Vivencio R. Jose. Later on, she was promoted as a university research associate (URA), a position she held until she passed. Ma. Teresa Peralta, Mariano’s colleague, described her as “a cheerful soul always ready…

Andre Judiel Parabas, a student of the College of Home Economics (CHE), recently bagged the top prize in the wellness and health category of the 10th jumpthegap Roca International Design Contest for designing a biodegradable home urine rapid-testing kit. Parabas’s rapid-testing kit, named the P-Kit, is designed to be low-cost, biodegradable, and rapid, able to be done at home. The P-Kit checks for diseases such as diabetes and malaria. The testing kit consists of three parts: a universal…

Ngayong Oktubre 28, mayroong 15 aktibong kaso ng COVID-19 sa UP Diliman at Barangay UP Campus. Ang mga purok o komunidad sa UP Campus kung nasaan ang mga aktibong kaso ay nasa mapang kasama sa stat report na gawa ng Special Committee ng UP Diliman COVID-19 Task Force. Higit pa nating paigtingin ang pagsunod sa mga pangkalusugang protokol upang tuloy-tuloy na malabanan ang paglaganap ng COVID-19 sa ating komunidad. Makipag-ugnayan din sa inyong lokal na pamahalaan hinggil sa pagpapabakuna.

Chemistry professor Florentino C. Sumera, PhD passed away on Oct. 18. He was 70. Sumera started teaching at UP Diliman (UPD) in 1976 as an instructor and eventually became a professor, a post he held until his retirement in 2016. He served as director of the UPD Institute of Chemistry from 1993 to 1996. Sumera was also the coordinator of the Materials Science and Engineering Program (MSEP) from 2006 to 2009. MSEP is a partnership between the College of Science and the College…

One of the pillars of special education (SPED) in the country, Prof. Trinidad C. Baldo, PhD, passed away on Oct. 3. She was 83. Known for being kind, loyal, and supportive to both students and colleagues, Baldo was author of several modules in education. She also served as consultant and resource speaker at the Department of Education (DepEd) for SPED from the 1970s to 2003. Baldo began her career at the UP Diliman College of Education (UPD CEd) on July 1, 1971 as…

Some 600 individuals from at-risk populations such as the homeless and survivors of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation returned to the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Human Kinetics (CHK) vaccination site on Oct. 22 and 23 for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The individuals were the beneficiaries of a collaboration between the UPD COVID-19 Task Force (UPDTF), the Quezon City local government, and a consortium composed of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the…

Ipinababatid ng Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs (OVCCA) na sa mga nabakunahan sa UP Diliman na hindi nakarating para sa kanilang iskedyul ng second dose ng Moderna o Sputnik V/Gamaleya vaccine ay pumunta lamang sa UP College of Human Kinetics Gym sa Sabado, Oktubre 23, 1:00-3:00 n.h. Mag-iwan ng mensahe sa OVCCA Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ovcca/

Mayroong 31 aktibong kaso ng COVID-19 sa UP Diliman at Barangay UP Campus ngayong Oktubre 21. Ang mga purok o komunidad sa UP Campus kung nasaan ang mga aktibong kaso ay nasa mapang kasama sa stat report na gawa ng Special Committee ng UP Diliman COVID-19 Task Force. Upang mapababa pa nang husto ang mga aktibong kaso sa ating komunidad, panatilihing nakataas ang ating mga depensa. Patuloy nating sundin ang mga ipinatutupad ng mga eksperto na pangkalusugang protokol at magpabakuna bilang dagdag na proteksyon.

Former UP College of Human Kinetics (CHK) dean and baseball coach, Artemio O. Isidro, passed away on Oct. 12. The CHK dean from May 1, 1993 to April 30, 1996, Isidro began his UP service in the early 1970s as instructor under the then Department of Physical Education. He was the UP Varsity Baseball Team (VBT) coach from 1975 until the mid-’80s. As baseball coach, Isidro brought pride to UP when VBT made a rare 5-peat championship at…

Former UP College of Arts and Letters Department of European Languages (DEL) administrative assistant Dominador C. Policarpio passed away on Aug. 29. He was 74. Mang Domeng, or Kuya Domeng, is fondly remembered as a quiet, friendly, and helpful staff at DEL. Former UP Diliman (UPD) students may remember him assisting students back in days when enlistment for general education (GE) subjects was at the Palma Hall lobby. Kuya Domeng first started working in UPD as…