The entire Academic Oval, from the front of the Oblation Plaza to Vinzons Hall including part of Roces Street between the old Faculty Center and the College of Engineering, will be closed to the public from March 19 (Saturday), 10 p.m. to March 22 (Tuesday), 9 p.m. to make way for the Special Bar Examinations […]

For the second day of the national conference “Bagumbayan: Stories of Place and Identity” (BAGUMBAYAN), 12 research papers were featured by UP scholars and national and international institutes of higher learning. Held on March 10 via Zoom and simultaneously livestreamed on the Facebook pages of the Folklore Studies Program (FSP) of the College of Social […]

Long-time UP Foundation, Inc. (UPFI) executive director and business administration professor Gerardo Agulto Jr. passed away on March 10.  A professor at the UP Diliman (UPD) Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business (VSB), Agulto was widely known as the UPFI executive director, having held the post from August 2001 until May 31, 2021. At the […]

Former College of Home Economics (CHE) dean Eva Beatriz Gonzalez passed away on Mar. 10. The daughter of former UP President Bienvenido Gonzalez, she began serving the University as an instructor in 1952. Gonzalez was instrumental in the establishment of the CHE Department of Family Life and Child Development, serving as its very first department […]

The Philippine Federation of Professional Associations (PFPA) recently awarded Prof. Zenaida Dela Cruz Galingan of the UP Diliman College of Architecture (CA) with the PFPA Distinction Award 2022 in the academe/research and development category.  “This award came as a total surprise and I’m very grateful to my students, colleagues, and friends, and the support of […]

Sa pagbubukas ng kumperensiyang “Bagumbayan: Stories of Place and Identity,” (BAGUMBAYAN) inilahad ni Prop. Maria Bernadette L. Abrera, PhD, dekana ng Kolehiyo ng Agham Panlipunan at Pilosopiya (College of Social Sciences and Philosophy/CSSP), na ang Bagumbayan ay simbolo ng pinagbigkis na mga hangarin at layunin ng bayan na mabigyan identidad o pagkakakilanlan ang mga Pilipino. […]

Prof. Kristyl Obispado, PhD of the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of History is the winner of the 2021 World History Association (WHA) Dissertation Prize for her dissertation “The Pacific sailors: Global workers at and on the edge of the Spanish empire (1580s-1640s).” According to its website (https://www.thewha.org/about/), the WHA, founded in 1982, is a professional […]

For two consecutive years, UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) graduates led the roster of passers of the Social Worker Licensure Examination (SWLE) administered by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Board of Social Workers. Alain Matteo Ferrer Meneses topped the 2022 SWLE with an 85.60 percent rating, while Sofia Clare […]

UP Diliman has two new deans in professors Fernando dlC. Paragas, PhD of the College of Mass Communication (CMC) and Dina C. Magnaye, PhD, EnP of the School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP), and one director in Prof. Pia D. Bagamasbad, PhD of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (NIMBB). Meanwhile, Prof. […]

It’s been said that UP Diliman (UPD) is home to some of the most diligent students in the country, and when looking at the performance of UPD College of Architecture graduate Lance Nathan Lim in the January Architect and February Master Plumber Licensure Examinations, it’s easy to agree.   Lim, who graduated magna cum laude […]