Join us as we explore the different modalities of learning about and experiencing wellness and wholeness, by listening to fora on mental health, touching base with evocative images of emotional health and wellbeing through art exhibits, examining emotional issues and practicing life-giving skills in workshops, and celebrating life and wellbeing through songs, dances, sharing, playing and connecting!

(OCT. 3)—  The Pohang Iron and Steel Company TJ Park Foundation (POSCO-TJPF) granted scholarships to 15 deserving UP Diliman students in a ceremony at the UP Institute of Small Scale Industries (UP ISSI) on Oct. 1.  Yearly, POSCO grants scholarships to 15 qualified students through its POSCO Asia Fellowship program. Scholars receive monetary support of $700 for one year or $350 per…

The University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons held on in the end game to snap their three game losing skid by escaping the De La Salle University (DLSU) Green Archers, 67-61 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, on September 30. The Maroons avoided another end game collapse after the Green Archers came to within 1, 61-60, with 2:29 left in the game courtesy of a tip in by Justin Baltazar. Fortunately for Maroons Juan Gomez De Liano answered with a daredevil drive to the hoop to give UP…

Ugnayan Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Diliman(Ugnayan) is a publication of the UP Diliman Information Office under the Office of the Chancellor, UP Diliman. Its editorial office is located at 2/F University Theater (Villamor Hall), Osmeña Avenue, UP Diliman, Quezon City, with telephone numbers 981-8500 loc. 3982/3983, email address upd.ugnayan@gmail.com. Ugnayan accepts announcements of activities and call for papers of UPD academic and administrative units and student organizations. Text should not exceed 400 words and must contain the title of the event, venue, date and time of the activity, contact information of the organizing…

BODIES, SCIENCE, AND PHILIPPINE SOCIETY UP Diliman Science, Technology, and Society Month 2018 After the success of the Festival of Culture and the Arts 2018: Kat(hawan: Bodies, Society, Culture, UP DIliman (UPD) continues the identification of the Philippine body as an important device in knowledge production with Bodies, Science, and Philippine Society or the celebration of the first UPD Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Month. This time, the Philippine body is explored as a scientific concept grounded in a socio-historical milieu. The series of activities comprising the UPD STS Month 2018 explore how both the natural and social sciences link, problematize and interrogate the Philippine body as an important apparatus for the understanding of inventions and…

Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan IIChancellor (632) 8981-8500 local 2558, 2556  chancellor.updiliman@up.edu.ph Maria Vanessa Lusung-OyzonVice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (632) 8981-8500 local 2583 https://ovcaa.upd.edu.ph/

(SEPT. 27)—Students and staff paraded around the Academic Oval in the morning of Sept. 26 in “Celebrate Life 2018,” a yearly event organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA) through the Office of Counseling and Guidance (OCG).   Now on its 8th year, the event commemorates “those beset with mental health conditions, particularly those struggling with depression and suicidal ideations” in solidarity with the celebration of the National Suicide Awareness Month, the OCG said. Among the reasons to celebrate life at UPD are: the enactment of…

  (SETYEMBRE 21)— Ang “Alpabeto ng Kulturang Filipino” (AKF), ang kauna-unahang aklat tungkol sa 28 letra ng alpabetong Filipino na itinatampok ang mahahalagang kinatawang kultural at tradisyon ng mga katutubo at modernong Filipino, ay inilunsad noong Setyembre 20 sa Balay Kalinaw sa UP Diliman.  Inilimbag ng PLL Publishing House (PLLPH), ang AKF ay akda ni Prop. Eugene Y. Evasco, PhD ng Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas (DFPP) at iginuhit at dinisenyo ni Aaron Asis.   Sa paglulunsad, kinuwento ni Evasco ang pinagdaanan nila ni Asis upang matagumpay na likhain…

The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman welcomes applications to its MA programs in Asian Studies and in Philippine Studies for the second semester, Academic Year 2018–2019, which starts January 2019. Application period is from 6 September 2018 to 15 October 2018. ASIAN STUDIES The MA Program in Asian Studies comes in two tracks (thesis or non-thesis) and offers four specializations on one of the following regions: Northeast Asia (with country specialization: Japan, Korea, OR China) Southeast Asia South Asia, or West Asia. VIEW REQUIREMENTS, ETC. PHILIPPINE STUDIES The…

(SEPT. 18)–The UP Asian Center launched the book “Thinking Beyond the State: Migration, Integration, and Citizenship in Japan and the Philippines” exploring migration issues on citizenship and nationality, incorporation and integration, human security, welfare, philanthropy, identity, and multiculturalism last Aug. 16 at its Seminar Room. The book features nine studies by Filipino and Japanese scholars that “address the need to think beyond prevailing state discourses in problematizing migrations between Japan and the Philippines by focusing on the presence of other actors involved in this/these migration process/es,” Prof. Johanna Zulueta, PhD, the book’s…