Marking 50 years of tourism education and the observance of Tourism Month in September, the UP Asian Institute Tourism (AIT) recently held its inaugural 2026 Graduate Student Conference with the theme Exploring Local and Indigenous Concepts in Tourism. UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II emphasized the need to rethink tourism knowledge by […]

A five-day seminar on the various development issues in rural and urban communities in the Philippines was recently hosted by the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) for students of the Nihon Fukushi University Graduate School of International Social Development (NFU-ISD). According to the CSWCD, the seminar “fosters meaningful exchanges […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has formalized its partnership with UP Diliman (UPD) through a memorandum of agreement (MOA) that strengthens further the shared vision of both parties regarding community-driven development. The MOA, signed on May 13 at the Office of the Chancellor (OC), outlined the partnership between UPD and DSWD for […]

What if everything that you needed for modern urban life—from working and shopping, to hospitals and schools—was just 15 minutes away from your home? A group of UP Diliman (UPD) students and their professor used this premise as basis to create a 15-minute city index, more known as FMCI, which measures how close a particular […]

Over 200 researchers, professionals, developers, and students, from inside and outside the country gathered at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium for the Philippine Geomatics Symposium 2025 (PhilGEOS 2025). With the theme Enhancing Human Quality of Life Through Spatial Technologies, PhilGEOS is a premier biennial conference organized by the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Geodetic Engineering […]

To record Sagada’s traditional vocal and instrumental repertoire—this was the purpose of the project Collection and ReCollection: Recording the Traditional and Instrumental Repertoire in Sagada (Collection and ReCollection). The project wants “to sustain the continued documentation of living traditions, while continuing to preserve the older records,” according to the report by Collection and ReCollection Project […]

As event partner of the annual international gathering of the OpenStreetMap (OSM), the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Geography (DGeog) hosted the 2025 State of the Map (SotM) Conference (2025 SotM) for three consecutive days in UPD. In an email to UPDate Online, DGeog Chair Kristian Karlo Saguin wrote that the OSM is “a global, […]

For three consecutive Saturdays —June 7, 14, and 21—the Philippine Association of University Women-UP Chapter, UP Resilience Institute, and the Philippine Native Tree Enthusiasts distributed seeds of native trees to the public. The activity, held in UP Diliman, also featured the sale of seedlings and books. A fourth installment is scheduled soon, where free native […]

A joint information activity on Philippine native trees was held in UP Diliman (UPD) this June by the UP Resilience Institute (UPRI), the Philippine Association of University Women (PAUW)-UP Chapter, and Philippine Native Tree (PNT) Enthusiasts, an advocacy group formed in 2013 dedicated to the promotion of PNT in the Philippines. During the event, free […]

First year landscape architecture (L Arch) students took on the challenge of coming out with conceptual designs for an inclusive park for the Philippine Association of University Women-UP Chapter (PAUW-UP). It took the L Arch students less than six weeks to respond to the request for conceptual designs for their inclusive park project. Five conceptual […]