The UP Women’s Volleyball Team posted a convincing win over the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in four sets, 31-33, 25-23, 25-16, 25-12, in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines Season 80 Volleyball Tournament, yesterday at The Arena in San Juan City. The win snapped the Lady Maroons’ four losing streak and improve their win loss record to 2-4. The Lady Maroons started flat in the first set. Down 10-19, UP slowly clawed their way back to even the score, 24-24. The two teams battled it out tightly, sending the first…

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…

(FEB. 22)—Four events focusing on the body comprised of an exhibit, symposium, book launch and film showing were held at the UP Diliman (UPD) GT-Toyota Asian Center on Feb. 13 as part of the 3-month celebration of the “Kat(h)awan: UPD Festival of Culture and the Arts 2018″ (UPDFOCA). The festival seeks to understand the Filipino body as a creative realm and a locus of scholarly discourse, taking the cue from sociologist Bryan S….

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(FEB 6)—Public performances were simultaneously staged at 3 p.m. on Feb. 1 in four different locations at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) to open this year’s 3-month Festival of Culture and of the Arts. Taludturan: Poetry of the Body is a series of performances inquiring into encounters of the body vis-à-vis several concepts of beauty, love and desire, revolt and death. The performances are in tune with the Festival’s theme of Kat(h)awan: Bodies, Culture and Society, which seeks to answer the question “What do we mean when we talk about bodies in Philippine culture and society?” [caption id=”attachment_13153″ align=”alignright”…

(FEB.2)—The Filipino body—what it is, how it is perceived and shaped by art, culture and society and manipulated by social engineering and advertising: these are the themes of Kat(h)awan, the 3-month Festival of Culture and the Arts at UP Diliman. The festival seeks to understand the Filipino body as a creative realm and a locus of scholarly discourse, taking the cue from sociologist Bryan S. Turner, a professor at Potsdam University in the United Kingdom who has devoted significant attention to the sociology of the body, and Zheng Yangwen,…

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…

2018 Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Kawani I. Call for Nominations II. Nomination Guidelines III. Criteria for Selection a. Category 1: SG 1-8 b. Category 2: SG 9 to below 18 c. Supervisory Administrative Personnel: SG 18 and above IV. Matrix of Criteria (Form) V. Full list of Nominees by category (as received by the OVCA)   2018 Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Lingkod Komunidad I. Call for Nominations Memo and Form   2018 Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Guro I….

Riding on its research being cited by the world’s scholars, the University of the Philippines made a big jump in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings or the THE ranking of the top 359 universities of the region. The Philippine national university leaped from the 201st-250thranked group in 2017 to the top 200, placing 156th, in 2018. Read more…

By: The Marine Science Institute, UP Diliman Jan. 26, 2018 The University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UPMSI), College of Science, UP Diliman (UP SCIENCE) would like to clarify some of the issues regarding the on-going MSR (Marine Scientific Research) of Chinese scientists in the northeastern Philippines where the Philippine Rise (Benham Rise) is located. The Chinese MSR’s objectives The research cruise by the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) using the research vessel Ke Xue aims to measure temperature, salinity and current distributions in several locations along a line (transect) at 18°N and 8°N, and to deploy instruments at…