A three-day Bangladesh film festival was hosted by the UP Film Institute (UPFI) and the Embassy of Bangladesh in Manila from May 6 to 8 at the UPFI Film Center (Film Center). The movie Mujib: The Making of a Nation (Mujib; 2023 ) was the first film to be screened at the festival. According to IMDb website, Mujib is a “biopic of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh.

The UP Men’s Football Team (UPMFT) is back in the finals of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines Season 86 men’s football tournament. The UPMFT. Photo from the UAAP Media Team The UPMFT will face the Far Eastern University Tamaraws on May 16 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. The team defeated the University of Santo Tomas (UST), 8-7 via penalty shootout in their…

Existing regulations on the procurement and handling of strategic goods and requirements for acquiring a research ethics clearance primarily for science, technology, and innovation research were discussed at a recent forum conducted by UP Diliman (UPD) for its faculty, staff, and researchers. Navigating Regulatory Compliance for Science, Technology, and Innovation Researchers featured lectures from the Policy and Enterprise Relations Division (PERD) of the Department of Trade and Industry Strategic Trade Management Office (STMO), and the Research Ethics Board (REB) of the UPD Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD).

Two DZUP 1602 service-oriented radio programs won in the 18th UP ComBroadSoc Gandingan Awards (Gandingan Awards) held on May 4 at the Charles Fuller Baker Memorial Hall in UP Los Baños (UPLB). Serbisyong Tatak UP (STU) by the National Service Training Program Diliman and the UP Reserve Officers’ Training Corps won Most Development-Oriented AM Program under the General Awards (Radio) category. STU representatives receiving the award. Image from the Gandingan Awards Facebook page

The first History, Theory, and Criticism (HTC) lecture series was recently launched by the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) and featured a two-part lecture on urbanism during the administration of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and the memorials built in honor of the EDSA Revolution that ended it. Recuperating Marcosian Nostalgia: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting (Recuperating Marcosian Nostalgia) featured the research Specters of the City: The Afterlife of Marcos-Era State Urbanism by John Patrick Canteros and Monumentalizing Uprising: An Introspection of Collective Memory through the Built Memorials and Shrines of…

UP Diliman (UPD) gained a 100% passing rate in the April 2024 Electrical Engineers Licensure Examination with two of the examinees landing in the top 10. All first-time 34 examinees from the UPD Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute passed the difficult exam. The EEEI building. Photo by Jerald DJ. Caranza, UPDIO Angelo Barrientos ranked fourth with a 93.5% rating, while Sophielynn Valdez ranked…

The UP Diliman (UPD) Industrial Engineering (IE) program continues its journey towards excellence with the visit of a program evaluation team from the Philippine Technological Council-Accreditation and Certification Board for Engineering and Technology (PTC-ACBET). UPD officials, some members of the PTC-ACBET program evaluation team, and the QAO team at the exit meeting. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO According to Director Aura C. Matias of the Quality Assurance…

UP Diliman (UPD) bids farewell to four former faculty members and an administrative staff member: Carlos Ojeda Aureus, PhD, a former faculty member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL); Elsie S. Ramos, a lawyer and a former faculty member of the Departamento ng Kasaysayan; David M. Kummer, PhD who once taught at the Department of Geography (DGeog); Daniel G. Santos, a lecturer at the Department of Broadcast Communication (DBC); and Ma. Elena C. Ignacio, an administrative officer at the National Engineering Center (NEC). Aureus passed away on April 23, Ramos on…

The UP Diliman (UPD) College of Music staged a rare moon viewing musical event, with traditional music from the Philippines, India, and Thailand filling the air, at Buwan ang Tanglaw: An Asian Music Concert Under the Full Moon (Buwan ang Tanglaw) at the UPD College of Science Amphitheater. Event poster. Image from the DMusicology Facebook page The nine-part musical event featured CMu’s UP Tugtugang Musika…

Nagtipon ang mga kinatawan ng yunit para sa All UP Workers Union-Diliman (AUPWU-Diliman) para sa ika-11 nitong assembly na may temang Ibayong Pagmumulat at Solidong Pagkakaisa para sa Kawani at Sambayanan sa Bulwagang Tandang Sora sa UP Diliman (UPD) Kolehiyo ng Gawaing Panlipunan at Pagpapaunlad ng Pamayanan noong Abril 25. Cabrera. Larawang kuha ni Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO Ayon kay Clodualdo “Buboy” Cabrera, pangulo ng AUPWU-Diliman, pinag-usapan sa assembly ang mga naganap sa unyon at UPD sa loob ng tatlong taon,…