Gerard Rey A. Lico, PhD, a professor of architecture at the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA), completed an international course on the conservation of modern heritage at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, California, USA. Lico. Photo from the CA website The Getty Conservation Institute is a private and non-profit institution that works to advance the conservation practice in the visual arts through scientific research, education and training, field projects, and dissemination of information.  According…

A group of international researchers that included Gennevieve Macam, PhD, an associate professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics of the UP Diliman College of Science (CS) recently discovered that the behavior of Weyl fermions can be understood through the use of Albert Einstein’s ideas on causality. Macam. Photo from the CS Weyl fermions are exotic subatomic particles that are similar to electrons but have no mass. These were first proposed by mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in…

Twenty-seven of the 32 interns chosen for the House of Representatives’ (HRep) Strategic Mentoring and Research Training (SMART) Internship Program are from UP Diliman (UPD). Of the 27 interns from UPD, 26 are from the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) and one from the College of Science (CS). The NCPAG building. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO The HRep brief described the SMART program as a pathway internship program that offers career development opportunities “to…

Every examinee fielded by the Department of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering (DMMME) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Engineering (COE) for the August 2023 Mining Engineers Licensure Examination passed, making it the eighth straight year that UPD has attained a 100% passing rate in said exam. The DMMME building. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO While no one landed in top 10, the University has been posting a 100% passing rate since 2016. The last to occupy first place among the…

The Department of Linguistics (DLingg) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) went all out to pay tribute to Otto Johns Scheerer, its first professor emeritus, with a journal launch and two public lectures. (From left) Sophie Lahu, head of Cultural Affairs of the German Embassy in Manila, Ambassador Pfaffernoschke, Abrera, DLingg Chair Maria Kristina S. Gallego, Vistan, and Javier. Photo by Jerald DJ. Caranza, UPDIO At the Paglulunsad at Paglalayag 2023 on Aug. 18, the department officially…

The Department of Linguistics (DLingg) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) has concluded the 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress (15th PLC) on Aug. 25 at the UPD National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED) auditorium. The 15th PLC is an international conference that gathered linguists, historians, researchers on languages, and experts on language studies, among others, for three days that began on Aug. 23. Conference…

Historian and UP Diliman (UPD) professor Oscar Llorente Evangelista, fondly known as “Sir OLE,” peacefully passed on Aug. 20 at the age of 88. Evangelista. Photo from the UPDIO Archive Evangelista was first hired as a clerk at the Office of the Registrar and the University Student Council in 1953. He taught generations of students for almost half a century, starting in 1959 as an assistant instructor at the then College of Liberal Arts.

UP Diliman (UPD) dominated the first-Food Technologists Licensure Examination, as the only institution with a 100-percent passing rate among the top-performing schools. UP passers also landed in all top 10 spots. All 75 first-time examinees from the Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the UPD College of Home Economics (CHE) passed, making UPD the first top-performing school in the examination’s history.  Panaligan. Photo from the CHE Leading the examinees is Dominic…

UP Diliman (UPD) bids farewell to three faculty members who passed away in recent months: Bartolome S. Carale of the UP College of Law, Florenda S. Gabriel, PhD of the UPD College of Home Economics (CHE) Department of Home Economics Education (DHEEd), and Lisa Lourdes Juliano-Redoble of the CHE Department of Family Life and Child Development (DFLCD). Carale. Photo from the UP College of Law Facebook page Carale passed away on Aug. 5 while Gabriel, on Aug. 14. Almost a…

Former UP Diliman (UPD) College of Fine Arts (CFA) dean Florentina P. Colayco was recently conferred the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government. Colayco. Photo from the CFA website According to the award’s website, “the Order is intended to reward people who have distinguished themselves by their creations in the artistic or literary field or by the contribution they have made to the influence of the arts and…