The UP Diliman College of Engineering (COE) paid tribute to its outstanding staff, faculty, and researchers on June 13 at the Engineering Theater of Melchor Hall. The college celebrated excellence among COE faculty and staff at the Araw ng Parangal sa Paggunita ng ika-114 na Anibersaryo ng Kolehiyo ng Inhenyeriya (Araw ng Parangal). The COE Faculty Awards (CFA) and the COE Staff Awards (CSA) were given at the event. The COE faculty, REPS, and staff awardees with their friends and family. Photo by…

In a simple ceremony held at the UP Board of Regents’ Room, UP Diliman (UPD) renewed its partnership with the Fluor Daniel, Inc.-Philippines (FDIP) for another five years. The FDIP is part of the multinational engineering and construction firm FLUOR Corporation. Under the MOA, FDIP “is a corporation engaged in the business of engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction (EPFC), maintenance, and project management across a broad range of industries, whose corporate initiatives, among others, are to uplift social, cultural, and economic growth of the communities in which it is holding business.”

UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II believes that civil servants must be agile, dynamic, and resilient agents of transformation for any government institution to remain relevant. Vistan said in his experience as a lawyer and a professor at the UP College of Law, he has seen institutional constraints—however legal—that prevent many institutions from adopting easier, more efficient, and more responsive courses of action. Vistan. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO

Melisa R. Serrano, PhD envisions the UP Diliman (UPD) School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR) as a center of excellence in labor and industrial relations in the Philippines and abroad, a prominent institution that actively promotes democratization and humanization of work, and a highly regarded center for labor education and worker empowerment in the country and in Asia. Serrano. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO Serrano shared this recently with UPDate Online. She is SOLAIR’s ninth dean and will serve for three years.

Former College of Home Economics (CHE) dean Eva Beatriz Gonzalez passed away on Mar. 10. The daughter of former UP President Bienvenido Gonzalez, she began serving the University as an instructor in 1952. Gonzalez. Photo from Vicky Gonzalez-Magsino Gonzalez was instrumental in the establishment of the CHE Department of Family Life and Child Development, serving as its very first department head from 1960 to 1970. She was an associate professor when she assumed the CHE deanship…

Former UP College of Law (CL) dean and one of the Philippines’ giants in international law, Merlin M. Magallona, passed away on the evening of Jan. 1. He was 87. According to the report of Celeste Ann Lopez Castillo of the UP Media and Public Relations Office (https://up.edu.ph/former-up-law-dean-and-international-law-luminary-merlin-magallona-passes-on/), Magallona was described by stalwarts of the Philippine judiciary as a “‘Filipino luminary in the field of international law,’ ‘a pillar of the Philippines’ international legal academy,’ and ‘one of the best Supreme Court justices we, unfortunately, did not have,’ not to mention ‘one of…

Former UP Institute for Small-Scale Industries (ISSI) director, Paterno V. Viloria, Ph.D. passed away on Sept. 22. He was 97. Viloria started working in ISSI in 1968 and became its third director from 1976 to 1979. During his term as ISSI director, Viloria co-founded the Small Enterprises Research and Development Foundation (SERDEF), a private company recognized as one of the pioneers of small and medium enterprise (SME) growth. IISI forged an alliance with SERDEF to undertake pilot and demonstration programs…

Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan at UP Diliman (UPD) Professor Emeritus Bienvenido L. Lumbera, pumanaw sa edad na 89 noong umaga ng Set. 28. Makata, mandudula, iskolar, guro, tagasalin — ilan lamang ito sa maraming naging tungkulin niya sa akademya at sining. Ngunit sa kaniyang paglisan, higit siyang inalala at pinarangalan ng mga nagmamahal sa kaniya bilang mentor, kaibigan, at ikalawang ama, sa akademya man o maging sa personal na buhay. Kinikilala bilang haligi ng kontemporanyong panitikan ng Pilipinas, at…

  (AUG. 5) —Six of the 11 faculty members conferred by the UP Board of Regents (BOR) with the title Professor Emeritus are from UP Diliman (UPD). According to Memorandum No. OVPPA 2020-85 of the UP Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, they are Prof. Violeta V. Bautista, PhD, Prof. Gisela P. Concepcion, PhD, Prof. Maria Serena I. Diokno, PhD, Prof. Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone, PhD, Prof. Manolo G. Mena, PhD and Prof. Guillermo Q. Tabios III, PhD. The conferment of the prestigious award for outstanding academic service was approved by the…

(OCT. 16)—New College of Engineering (COE) dean Ferdinand G. Manegdeg wasted no time at the podium during his affirmation address on the afternoon of Oct. 8 at the Engineering Theater, firing off a laundry list of tasks to improve services in the college. Pillars. Manegdeg, a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DME), outlined his plans for the COE based on what he calls “five pillars,” named after the COE’s various publics: faculty, research, extension and professional staff (REPS), administrative staff, students and alumni. For faculty he aims to strengthen COE…