The UP College of Law (UP Law) has brought pride to the University as it took the world champion title at the 2024 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held on April 6 in Washington, DC. According to a post on the college’s Facebook page, “This remarkable victory comes nearly three decades after […]

UP Diliman (UPD) bids farewell to former faculty members Emmanuel E. Buendia, DPA and Cris Vertido who recently passed away. Buendia, a former professorial lecturer at the UPD National College of Public Administration and Governance, passed away on March 29. According to an email the NCPAG Publications Office sent to UPDate Online, Buendia was a […]

To further enhance teaching and have a more inclusive classroom environment, the UP Diliman (UPD) Office for the Advancement of Teaching (OAT) invites UPD faculty members to the seminar Helping SWANs Take Flight on April 15 and 22, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Bocobo Hall. Organized in cooperation with the Special Education Cluster faculty […]

“As the three components—katawan, utak, puso—converge in a deeply meaningful synthesis in the new normality that we continue, at present, to navigate, it is inevitable that ginhawa is attained. Ginhawa is associated with the word hininga, or breath, the life force itself which produces physical, mental, and emotional comfort attained through sound and idea.” This […]

UP Diliman (UPD) celebrated all women by hosting the University’s first women’s congress and women’s art festival. The 1st UP Diliman Women’s Congress aimed to “propagate conversations on women’s and gender issues within and outside UPD, respond to timely community and national issues through resolution building, and strengthen solidarity with women and gender advocates within […]

A personal account of a social worker as a volunteer is the core of the book, The True Taste of Water: A Social Worker’s Lived Experience of Volunteerism (The True Taste of Water). In the book, Angelito B. Meneses, DSD, an associate professor at the Department of Social Work (DSW) of the UP Diliman (UPD) […]

The UP Diliman (UPD) and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) signed a memorandum of agreement for the development, prototyping, and pilot test deployment of an eco-friendly ferry system along the Pasig River Ferry System (PRFS). Funded by the Department of Science and Technology, the project Development, Prototyping, and Pilot Deployment of Electric Passenger Ferry […]

A panel discussion on Speech 30: Public Speaking and Persuasion was recently held in observance of the 65th anniversary of the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA), with the theme DSCTA@65: Honoring the Past, Reckoning With the Present, Priming the Future. At the My Persuasion Can Build a Nation: Discourses […]

In a simple ceremony held at the UP Board of Regents’ Room, UP Diliman (UPD) renewed its partnership with the Fluor Daniel, Inc.-Philippines (FDIP) for another five years. The FDIP is part of the multinational engineering and construction firm FLUOR Corporation. Under the MOA, FDIP “is a corporation engaged in the business of engineering, procurement, […]