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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

UP Diliman (UPD) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow or AMKP through the UPD College of Music (CMu) on Nov. 8 at the Office of the Chancellor. According to its website, the Polish academy in Krakow is a public higher education institution (HEI) offering undergraduate, […]

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. To qualify as a top-performing school, an institution must have fielded 30 or more examinees and achieved at […]

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). 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 80 examinees fielded by […]

“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 […]

Advocating cultural heritage conservation was the topic of lawyer Nicolas B. Pichay in his lecture Heritage Law: Vital Signs and Symbols that was recently held at the UP Diliman (UPD) Asian Center (AC). Pichay is the director of the Legislative Research Service of the Senate of the Philippines. “Done within an established legal framework, cultural […]

“Let go of the concept of safer sex and instead embrace saner sex.” This was what Rica Cruz, PhD said as the keynote speaker of (W)Holesome Conversations: Prioritizing Wellness in Sexual Intimacy (Wholesome Conversations), a forum the UP Diliman (UPD) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Students Affairs (OVCSA) organized. Cruz is a known sex […]