UP Diliman (UPD) accomplished a 100 percent passing rate at the April 2023 Registered Electrical Engineer Licensure Examination when all of its 24 first-time takers passed. Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute building along P. Velasquez Street. Photo by Jerald DJ. Caranza One of the UPD examinees also landed in the top 10. Charles Vincent Arandia ranked ninth with a 90.15 percent rating. The examinations were held in the National Capital Region, Baguio, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Koronadal, Legazpi,…

For the second consecutive year, UP Diliman (UPD) emerged as the lone top-performing school in the April 2023 Electronics Engineer Licensure Examination. Three of the examinees landed in the top 10: John Vincent Portugal ranked fourth (87.2%), Moises Angelo Sanchez ranked eighth (86.7%), and Constantine Nicolai Tan ranked ninth (86.4%). Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute building along P. Velasquez Street. Photo by Jerald DJ. Caranza According to data released by the Professional Regulation Commission, UPD was the only institution that fielded…

Described as the consummate manager in the book At the Helm of UP: Presidential Accents, university professor of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Business Administration or CBA (now the Cesar E. A. Virata School of Business) and 14th president of the University, Emanuel Valdez Soriano, DBA passed away on April 22. Soriano. Photo by Leonardo A. Reyes (ret.), UPDIO As the executive vice president of 13th UP president Onofre D. Corpuz, PhD he managed the University’s daily affairs so…

Sa darating na Abril 25 ay magkakaroon ng konsultasyon ang Opisina ng Faculty Regent (OFR) sa mga kaguruan ng UP Baguio at Abril 28 naman sa UP Cebu. Nauna nang nakipagpulong si Faculty Regent Carl Marc L. Ramota sa mga guro ng UP Diliman (UPD) at ibinahagi ang mga inisyatiba at programa ng OFR. Ang konsultatibong pulong na tinawag na UGNAYAN o Usapang Guro at Pamayanan ay naglalayong alamin ang kalagayan at mga usapin ng kaguruan at komunidad para sa pagbabalangkas at rebyu ng mga alituntunin o polisiya ng UP.

Rita Badilla Gudiño added another feather to her cap. Gudiño is an associate professor of industrial design at the Department of Visual Communication of the UP Diliman College of Fine Arts (CFA) and a ceramic artist. She was recently invited to participate at the 57th National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA). She is the first Filipino presenter and multicultural fellow of the international conference. This year, it had more than 5,000 attendees from various countries. The NCECA has more than 4,000 members from the…

Czar Matthew Gerard T. Dayday’s rating of 88.8083 percent placed him first of all examinees at the 2022 Bar examinations (2022 Bar), the Supreme Court of the Philippines released on April 14. Dayday. Photo from Dayday’s Facebook account Dayday from the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Law (LAW) is one of 11 Bar passers from LAW that placed among the 30 with the highest ratings. He is joined in the roster by Erickson C. Mariñas (second place, 88.7666%), Christiane Claire…

Two players of the UP Integrated School (UPIS) Junior Fighting Maroons basketball team were recently recognized at the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 85 high school basketball boys awarding ceremony on March 17 at the FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan. Kobe Demisana and Daryl Valdeavilla were awarded the Mythical Five and Rookie of the Year titles, respectively. Congratulatory poster for Demisana and Valdeavilla. Image from the UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons Facebook page Demisana, the…

The UP Varsity Pep Squad (UP Pep) bagged the championship title for the All-Girl College Cheer Division at the 16th National Cheerleading Championship (NCC) that took place from March 25 to 26 at the Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig City. UP Pep’s All-Girl College Cheer Team. Image from The UP Varsity Pep Squad Facebook page The NCC is an annual cheerleading competition for elementary to college cheerleading teams from schools all around the country. They also have a coed elite division open to participants…

A documentary film on the importance of mangrove in the ecosystem was recently screened at the UP Diliman (UPD) Institute of Biology Auditorium. Bakawan is a 45-minute documentary that tackles the significance of mangroves to the coastal ecosystem, the reason for the decline of mangrove forest in the Philippines, the persisting threats to mangroves, and the rehabilitation efforts being carried out. Shot on the island of Alabat, Quezon, Bakawan was produced and co-written by Nick Deocampo, an associate professor at the Film Institute of the UPD College of Mass Communication, and…

The Department of History (DHist) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy held a virtual film screening of the Maguindanawon film The Restless Heron (TRH / Su Di Makapangintelen a Talik) as the latest installment of SineKas, the department’s film screening activity. Previously, SineKas presented HONOR: The Legacy of Jose Abad Santos. Presented in cooperation with the Mindanao State University (MSU)-General Santos City, TRH tells the story of the Sultanate of Talik (situated in modern-day Koronadal City) and their journey in the late 19th and early 20th…