(February 3)—UP Diliman Month 2016 opened with great fanfare on Feb. 1, 6 p.m. at the University Amphitheater with a ceremony inspired by a Filipino theatre tradition, the Bodabil. “Panahon ng Luwalhati,” the month-long festivities pay tribute to the lives and works of four National Artists: Manuel Conde (Film), Lamberto Avellana (Film and Theatre), Severino Montano (Theatre) and NVM Gonzalez (Literature). All of them were born in 1915. The theme is derived from Gonzalez’s short story, “A Season of Grace.” Bodabil sa Kampus. To usher in UPD Month,…

Economics professor passed away on Jan. 29. Read tributes at ABS-CBN News GMA News Manila Bulletin Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippine Star Rappler UPD School of Economics UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP-CIDS) Bankers Institute of the Philippines

The U.P. College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) is now accepting nominations for the annual U.P. GAWAD PLARIDEL which recognizes Filipino media practitioners who have excelled in any of the media (print, radio, film, television, and new media) and have performed with the highest level of professional integrity in the interest of public service. For 2016, the twelfth U.P. Gawad Plaridel will be given to an outstanding RADIO PRACTITIONER. The award is named after Marcelo H. del Pilar (nom de plume, Plaridel), the selfless propagandist whose stewardship of the reformist newspaper La Solidaridad…

(Jan. 29)—Professor Rosa Maria Icagasi, retired College of Arts and Letters (CAL) professor, passed away on Jan. 21. She was 77. Icagasi was a faculty member at CAL’s Department of Art Studies when she retired on June 16, 2003. A poet, a painter and a composer, Icagasi taught in UP Los Banos; UP Manila, where she served as Division of Humanities Chair (1973-1974) and UP Diliman, where she served as Assistant to the CAL dean (1986-1987). Her research interests included images of women, the lost…

(February 1)—The UP Women’s Volleyball team defeated the University of East Lady Warriors in three straight sets, 25-20, 25-13, 25-21, in the opening game of University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 78 Women’s Volleyball Tournament at The Arena in San Juan City. The Lady Maroons had a slow start in the first set, but with a well distributed and a variety of attacks in the second and third sets the Lady Maroons dominated the Lady Warriors to clinch their first win. Rookie Diana Mae Carlos led the Lady Maroons with 9 points…

(JAN. 26)—Twenty-three new foreign students from partner universities in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States are enrolled as exchange or visiting students, at UP Diliman (UPD) this second semester. The students are from Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Thailand and the United States.  Korea had the most number of exchange students with 11, followed by Japan with five and Germany with two.  Other participating countries had one exchange student each. To brief them about their stay in the country,…

CSC Chair Alicia dela Rosa-Bala and UP President Alfredo E. Pascual (left and second from left) check out the onsite service of the National Bureau of Investigation. (JAN. 26)—Close to 20 government agencies participated in the Luzon leg of the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) Caravan launched Jan. 25 at the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at UP Diliman. With the theme “#KontraRedTape: Kabataan, Kaakibat sa Mahusay na Pamamahala,” the UPD leg of the ARTA caravan until Jan. 27 aims to…

Services of the BIR, DFA, GSIS, LTO, NBI, PhilHealth and other government offices available at Palma Hall from Jan 25-27 courtesy of the CSC’s Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) Caravan   2016 ARTA Caravan in UP Diliman PDF

2016 ARTA Caravan in UP Diliman PDF

The lives and works of four National Artists of the Philippines are at the heart of Panahon ng Luwalhati, UP Diliman’s celebration of the arts and culture month in February. The featured artists, all of whom observed their birth centennial in 2015, are: Lamberto Avellana, conferred National Artist for Theater and Film in 1976, the first double awardee in the history of the award; Manuel Conde (Film, 2009), Severino Montano (Theater, 2001) and Nestor Vicente Madali (NVM) Gonzalez (Literature, 1997). This year, as the University celebrates the beginning of artists’ second century, the festivities…