For the third time in his academic career, Prof. Julkipli M. Wadi is the UP Diliman (UPD) Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) dean. His appointment was approved by the UP Board of Regents at its 1367th meeting on Jan. 27. He succeeded Prof. Macrina A. Morados, PhD who served for two terms (2016-2019, 2019-2022). Wadi […]

The UP College of Law (LAW) emerged as champion of the Philippine National Rounds at the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held virtually from Feb. 26 to March 1. For the fifth consecutive year, the LAW team will represent the country in the competition’s global rounds. According to the International Law […]

Prof. Excelsa C. Tongson, DSD of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Home Economics (CHE) is the new chairperson of the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC), the organization announced on March 22 on their Facebook page. A faculty member at the CHE Department of Family Life and Child Development, Tongson is also the deputy director […]

His Excellency Marco Clemente, ambassador of Italy to the Philippines, paid Chancellor Fidel R. Nemenzo a courtesy call on March 18, 10 a.m., at the Quezon Hall Board of Regents Room. Clemente’s visit to the University aimed to foster cooperation between the Italian embassy and UP Diliman (UPD), with a possible organization of joint cultural […]

Two graduate students from the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) recently won the first and third prizes of the first ever Loretta Makasiar Sicat (LMS) Prize for the Social Sciences. Sanny Boy Afable won the top prize for his thesis on depression among older Filipinos entitled “Demographic Correlates of Late-life Depression in […]

To kick off the celebration of 100 years of broadcasting in the Philippines (100 YBP), the Department of Broadcast Communication (DBC) will feature an eight-part series of a Palawan folk epic on March 31, Thursday, 1 p.m. over DZUP 1602 khz. “Pag-uugat, Pagpapatuloy: Ang Epikong Dumaracol ng mga Tagbanua Kalamianen ng Hilagang Palawan” showcases never-before-heard […]

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 […]