(MAR. 15)—Maya-2, the second cube satellite (cubesat) designed and made by Filipino engineers under a joint program by UP Diliman (UPD) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), is now orbiting the earth. In a livestream from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Maya-2 was released into space from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 14, at 7:20 p.m. Philippine Time. Maya-2 was designed and developed by Mark Angelo Purio, Izrael Zenar Bautista, and Marloun Sejera, Filipino scholars who were sent to Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) by the Space…

Memo ABB 21 – 09 Extension of deadline for the submission of nominations for the lingkod komunidad award pdf            

This is to inform everyone that the physical office of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD) is operating in very limited capacity. A huge percentage of its physically-reporting staff are quarantined due to continued threat of COVID-19 transmission. While the office is trying its best to attend to all concerns, please expect delays in processing hard copy documents. Thank you for…

As a safety precaution due to possible exposure of HRDO staff to COVID-19 virus (being in close contact with a positive COVID-19 patient), all walk-in clients and messengers delivering documents to HRDO will have limited access to the HRDO Office. We encourage all units and guests to send documents via email. Our email addresses may be viewed through this link bit.ly/HRDOEmailaddress. Please include the DTS number on the documents to be submitted via email (applicable to documents from the units). If there is a need to submit hard copies of documents, we…

Call for Nominations and Schedule of Activities in Connection with the Search for the Deanship of the School of Economics PDF            

The UP Diliman Executive Committee expresses solidarity with the Lumad Bakwit Schools, their students and volunteer teachers who have experienced harassment from state forces in their last remaining schools in UCCP Haran in Davao, the University of San Carlos in Cebu, and the University of the Philippines Diliman in Manila. As a national university with a clear mandate of public service, our support of the lumad in their continuing efforts to finish their education because of and despite the closure of their community-built indigenous schools is true to our mission of upholding honor, excellence, and compassion, and…

(FEB. 26)–Once again a story of honor and pride for UP Diliman (UPD).  Prof. Ros Costelo of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Department of History along with her PhD received the mark of sobresaliente cum laude from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid), Spain’s most prestigious academic institution on Jan. 28. Costelo graduated with a doctorate degree in Contemporary History from the University which counts national hero Jose Rizal and hero Antonio Luna as alumni.  She successfully defended her thesis “Public Works, Sanitation, Order, and Social…

We, members of the University Council of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, join our students, staff, and alumni in opposing the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Agreement (“Agreement”) by the Department of National Defense and the government’s broader campaign to “red-tag” members of the UP community. The termination of the Agreement, along with the branding of UP faculty, students, and staff as “enemies of the state,” poses a significant threat to academic freedom, a constitutionally protected right enshrined in the UP Charter (Republic Act No. 9500). Academic freedom is a precondition for the university to fulfill its mission…

Memo ABB 21 – 05 Security contact details PDF      

January 24, 2021 The Honorable Members The Board of Regents University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City Through Dr. Prospero E. de Vera Chairman, Board of Regents and Atty. Danilo L. Concepcion President, University of the Philippines Dear Regents: We the undersigned, Professors Emeriti of the University of the Philippines Diliman, wish to register our protest in the strongest terms against the recent unilateral abrogation by the Secretary of National Defense of the 1989 agreement between UP and the DND providing for certain protocols to govern the entry of security forces into UP’s campuses. We find no tenable or compelling reason why this agreement, which largely served its intended purposes for over…