The UP Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga (UPDEPP) has partnered with the UP Foundation Inc. and Citi Foundation to develop courses to enhance the capabilities of practitioners in micro and small enterprise development in Central Luzon. The Social Entrepreneurship and Financial Bridging Program seeks to equip micro entrepreneurs with the necessary skills to succeed in business. It also hopes to promote the exchange…

(NOV.7)— The July to December 2017 issue of “Humanities Diliman” (HD Vol.14 No. 2) has a new editor-in-chief (EIC) and is now available online. At the helm of the journal’s latest issue is Prof. Patrick F. Campos, Assistant Professor at the UP Film Institute and UP College of Mass Communication Office of Research and Publication’s current director. He succeeded the late Dr. Reuben Ramas Cañete, former Asian Center professor who served as the journal’s EIC in 2015. Campos said HD Vol.14 No. 2, which features five articles and two reviews,…

A low-cost and portable handheld device coupled with sensors has been developed by researchers from UP Diliman (UPD) and UP Los Baños (UPLB) to upgrade the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strand of the K to 12 program of the Department of Education (DepEd). The Versatile Instrumentation System for Science Education Research or VISSER is a science kit that allows students to conduct 120 experiments in biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science and physics. The device consists of fully integrated hardware, operating…

(SET. 22) —Dalawang eksperto mula sa magkaibang disiplina ang nagbahagi ng kanilang kaalaman tungkol sa mga salitang “indie” at “delubyo” sa seminar na inorganisa ng Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) bilang bahagi ng pagdiriwang ng Buwan ng Wika noong Agosto. Ang seminar na “Mga Susing Salita: Pambansang Seminar sa Pagbuo ng Diskurso sa Konseptong Filipino” ay ginanap mula Agosto 24-25 at may layon na “itaguyod at palaganapin ang Wikang Filipino sa lahat ng buwan ng taon” ayon sa SWF. Sa unang pang-umagang sesyon ng seminar noong…

Pahayag ng Konseho ng Unibersidad ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, Diliman Bilang mga miyembro ng kaguruan ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, ang pambansang Unibersidad, itinataguyod namin ang pananaig ng batas, ang paggalang sa mga karapatang pantao na nakapaloob sa Konstitusyon ng Pilipinas—higit lalo, ang karapatan sa buhay at kalayaan, wastong pamamalakad ng batas, karapatan laban sa arbitraryong aresto at detensyon—at iba pang kalayaang sibil na kinakailangan sa pag-iral ng ating mga demokratikong institusyon. Kami ay lubos na nababahala sa dumaraming bilang ng mga hindi nalulutas at hindi naipapaliwanag na kaso ng pagpaslang kaugnay sa isinasagawang kampanya laban sa droga. Ipinapahayag namin ang aming…

(AUG. 22) —Dr. Lilia F. Realubit, retired professor from the College of Arts and Letters Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL), passed away on Aug. 17. She was 86. Realubit served at UP Diliman (UPD) as faculty for more than three decades. She taught English, Bicol literature, folklore and Philippine Studies both in the graduate and undergraduate levels. According to the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Realubit graduated cum laude at the Colegio de Santa Isabel in 1960 with a BS Education degree. She obtained her MA…

UP Celebrates Buwan ng Wika with the restaging of Putri Anak, Isang Bagong Komedya

UP Celebrates Buwan ng Wika with the restaging of Putri Anak, Isang Bagong Komedya

OVPAA Memo Online Survey on Evaluation of the University Online survey

UP Diliman welcomes the memo from UP President Danilo Concepcion, which provides that “no tuition and other school fees shall be colelcted from Filipino undergraduate students” throughout the UP System.  The memo was issued “in the spirit of the recently promulgated Universal Access to Tertiary Education (Republic Act No. 10931) signed into law last Friday by President Rodrigo Duterte. The new law takes effect only in the next school year, 2018-2019 and would cover all state universities and colleges, but UP decided to bite the bullet and begin the implementation immediately, with the current schoolyear.  An existing tuition subsidy from…