(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…

(11 Apr.)—A delegation from Hokkaido University (HU) in Japan and officials of the University of the Philippines formally opened the HU nook at UP Diliman (UPD) on Mar. 6. Located at the ground floor of the Diliman Interactive Learning Center, the nook is the first facility of its kind set up by an international university at UPD, Chancellor Michael L. Tan said. The nook is a liaison office designed to facilitate the participation of UPD students and faculty members…

They say necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of popular global positioning system (GPS)-based navigation app Waze, frustration and a gift were the seeds that drove its creators to find a better way to navigate the busy streets of Tel Aviv, Israel. Dror Cohen, Ads Product Manager and one of the original developers of Waze, described the popular app’s beginnings in a teleconference held at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI) Auditorium on Jul. 19. The conference is part of a partnership between the EEEI, the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and the Embassy of Israel in…

  Books in the Philippines generally tend to have short shelf lives.  Our environment is host to many conditions that are not friendly to books, conditions that constantly threaten their survival.  One of such is the frequency of fires. As a book historian, I know this all too well, for there is no dearth of accounts of the burning of books throughout Philippine history.  Take, for example, the fires at the San Agustin convent in Intramuros in…

(NOV. 6, National Institute of Physics)—The National Institute of Physics (NIP) of the College of Science co-sponsored the 32nd  Physics Congress of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP) from Oct. 17 to 20 at the NIP Intel Center for Science Innovation. In his opening remarks, NIP Director Roland V. Sarmago emphasized the importance of the partnership with the SPP. He said the SPP provides NIP researchers a venue for intellectual discourse, sharing of ideas as well as an opportunity for scientific leadership. Together, NIP and SPP have a…

History The University of the Philippines was established in 1908 by Act No. 1870 of the Philippine Legislature to “give advanced instruction in literature, philosophy, the sciences and arts, and to give professional and technical training to every qualified student regardless of age, sex, nationality, religious belief and political affiliation.” Three colleges initially comprised UP: the College of Fine Arts, College of Liberal Arts and the College of Medicine and Surgery, all located along Padre Faura and R. Hidalgo streets in the City of Manila. Another academic unit, the School of Agriculture, was established in Los Baños, Laguna. The succeeding years…

The UP Diliman (UPD) Quality Assurance Office (QAO) honored 28 academic and administrative units, 22 faculty members, and one degree program for their quality assurance-related accomplishments at the recent Kahusayan: Seremonya ng Pagkilala sa Kagalingan sa QA, the culminating activity of QA Month 2025. The awardees, event organizers, and university officials. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UP Diliman Information Office UPD Vice Chancellor for Administration Adeline A. Pacia emphasized the need for commitment to quality and excellence, stating that “quality assurance (QA) is not a…

All 60 examinees from the UP Diliman (UPD) Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business (VSB) passed the May 2025 Licensure Examination for Certified Public Accountants (LECPA), with one examinee bagging the highest rank. UPD is the lone university with more than 50 examinees to achieve a 100% passing rate. Topping the examination was John Elrich R. Gamboa, who earned a 92.67% rating. He graduated magna cum laude from the VSB. Photo from Gamboa’s…

Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational movement that began in the late 1960s. The UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Philosophy (DPhilo) published an article detailing the origin and current state of P4C in the Philippines. Below is the article Pioneering Philosophy for Children in the Philippines by Karen Connie Abalos-Orendain, PhD. Pioneering Philosophy for Children in the Philippines By Karen Connie Abalos-Orendain, PhD Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational movement which started in the late 1960s when Matthew Lipman was still in Columbia….