The representatives of the Türkiye government recently met with UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II to explore a possible academic partnership with the University. Macit Koç, director of the Yunus Emre Institute Turkish Cultural Center, together with Gladymier Ortega of the Embassy of the Republic of Türkiye in the Philippines paid Vistan […]

UP Diliman (UPD) held a two-session orientation program for its newest batch of Iskolar ng Bayan at the UP Theater, introducing them to the various offices of the University and the services they provide. The UP Theater was packed to the rafters as over 3,000 freshmen attended the 2023 UPD Freshie Orientation Program (FOP 2023) […]

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the UP Diliman (UPD) Confucius Institute (CI) and the Clark Development Corporation (CDC), stands as an overarching mechanism to foster cooperation between the two institutions. A government-owned and controlled corporation under the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, the CDC entered into an MOU […]

For the first time since the pandemic, UP Diliman’s (UPD) Research, Extension, and Professional Staff (REPS) all came together, to discuss the UPD REPS Manual. The REPS Welfare Council (RWC) gave an orientation on the manual during the REPS Manual Caravan & Kumustahan, a series of consultations that opened on Sept. 5 at the Atencio-Libunao […]

All nine examinees from UP Diliman (UPD) passed the September 2023 Registered Electrical Engineers Licensure Examination, giving the University a 100% passing rate, with one examinee landing in the top 10. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 1,218 of the 3,945 board takers passed the examination given by the Board of Electrical Engineering in […]

Matagumpay na nailunsad kamakailan ang aklat na Ang Wikang Pambansa at Amerikanisasyon: Isang Kasaysayan ng Pakikihamok ng Filipino para maging Wikang Pambansa (Ang Wikang Pambansa at Amerikanisasyon) ni Virgilio S. Almario, Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan at university professor emeritus ng Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura (College of Arts and Letters / CAL). Ayon […]

While there are monetary benefits to switching to electric public utility vehicles (ePUVs), it will take both time and the cooperation of all stakeholders to make this goal come true. This was according to the study EV (Electric Vehicle) Test Run for Baguio and Iloilo City (EV Baguio) headed by Lew Andrew Tria, PhD, a […]

UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II believes that civil servants must be agile, dynamic, and resilient agents of transformation for any government institution to remain relevant. Vistan said in his experience as a lawyer and a professor at the UP College of Law, he has seen institutional constraints—however legal—that prevent many institutions […]

Twenty-seven of the 32 interns chosen for the House of Representatives’ (HRep) Strategic Mentoring and Research Training (SMART) Internship Program are from UP Diliman (UPD). Of the 27 interns from UPD, 26 are from the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) and one from the College of Science (CS). The HRep brief described […]

For his research, Virulence and Antimicrobial Resistance Gene of Salmonella Isolated From Swine Meat Samples in Abattoirs and Wet Markets of Metro Manila, Rance Derrick N. Pavon won the Young Researcher’s Grant of the Philippine Society for Microbiology (PSM). Pavon is a science research specialist at the Pathogen-Host-Environment Interactions Research Laboratory (PHEIRL) of the Institute […]