In the latest installment of Bahaginan of the UP Diliman Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA), four academics discussed the synergy of theory and practice in theatre. Topics in acting/directing, dramaturgy, festival management, and costume and scene design were featured in A Very Good Artist: Theatre Arts and the Creative Industry on Nov. 13 at the Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan at Palma Hall Pavilion 3. (From left) Lopez, Jamias, Pagunaling, and Garcia at the…

Key personalities from the academe, government institutions, and nongovernmental organizations gathered at UGNAYANG KAALAMANG BAYAN: A Seminar-Workshop on Philippine Indigenous and Traditional Culture on Nov. 9 at Microtel, Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. Organized by the UP Diliman (UPD) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the seminar-workshop discussed matters on indigenous knowledge and cultural studies. Rovillos delivering his lecture. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO

The UP Fighting Maroons Men’s Basketball Team (UPMBT) has now 10 wins. This came after the UPMBT routed the Far Eastern University (FEU) Tamaraws, 81-64, in Season 86 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball tournament on Nov.11 at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Sean Aldous Torculas had his best game of the season to lead the UP Fighting Maroons with 13 points, five rebounds, and two assists. Torculas was named the best player of the game.

UP Diliman (UPD) recently launched the PASCAL Regional Centre for Asia-Pacific, to be housed at the UPD School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP). “We are confident that this collaboration will trigger innovation in education, research, and public service in the 21st century given the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world,” SURP Dean Dina C. Magnaye said. This is the fifth PASCAL regional center established worldwide. The other centers are PASCAL Africa based at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, PASCAL Americas based at the Rutgers University in…

It was a good Wednesday for UP. On Nov. 8, the UP Fighting Maroons secured final four ranking in both the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in Season 86 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). The UP Men’s Basketball Team (UPMBT) thwarted the last-ditch effort of the University of the East (UE) Red Warriors, 79-72, at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Meanwhile, the UP Women’s Basketball Team (UPWBT) dominated the Far Eastern University (FEU) Lady Tamaraws, 70-55, at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay City.

UP Diliman (UPD) remembers two of its respected and beloved faculty members: Priscelina Patajo Legasto, PhD of the UPD College of Arts and Letters (CAL) and Virginia Bonoan Dandan, PhD of the UPD College of Fine Arts (CFA). Legasto passed away on Nov. 8, while Dandan passed away in the morning of Nov. 9. Legasto. Photo from the UPDIO Archive Legasto specialized and taught courses in literary, cultural, feminist, and Marxist theory and criticism, and Philippine theater history…

UP Diliman (UPD) has emerged as the only top-performing school in the October 2023 Electronics Engineers Licensure Examination as the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI) of the UPD College of Engineering earned a 96.67% passing rate. EEEI building. Photo by Jerald Caranza, UPDIO To qualify as a top-performing school, an institution must have fielded 30 or more examinees and achieved at least 80% passing rate.

Graduates from UP Diliman (UPD) performed excellently in the October 2023 Geodetic Engineers Licensure Examination, ranking first among the top-performing schools (having the only 100% passing rate). Melchor Hall (UPD College of Engineering building). Photo by Jerald DJ. Caranza, UPDIO To qualify as a top-performing school, an institution must have fielded 10 or more examinees and achieved at least 80% passing rate. All the…

“Isipin ninyo ang bayan. Kayo ang kinabukasan ng bayan,” habilin at hamon ni Manuel Urbano Jr. sa mga kabataang dumalo sa pagtanggap niya ng Gawad Plaridel 2023. Ang Gawad Plaridel na ipinagkakaloob ng UP Diliman (UPD) Kolehiyo ng Komunikasyong Pangmadla (College of Mass Communication / CMC) ang tanging parangal sa buong UP System na kumikilala sa mga media practitioner na may malaking kontribusyon sa larangan ng media at sa lipunan. (Mula kaliwa) Tiongson, Vistan, Urbano,…