Two UP Diliman (UPD) College of Science (CS) professors and an academic unit from the UPD College of Engineering (COE) were this year’s recipients of the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) awards. Reynaldo L. Garcia, PhD of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (NIMBB) and Cristine D. […]

The UP Diliman (UPD) Marine Science Institute (MSI) recently honored National Scientist Edgardo D. Gomez, its founder and the institute’s prime driving force, by renaming its building as the Edgardo D. Gomez Hall (Gomez Hall) at the celebration of its 50th founding anniversary. Three UPD chancellors gave messages on the day the MSI paid tribute […]

UP Diliman (UPD) bids goodbye to five of its faculty members, three of whom passed away on the same day.

Rene Abesamis, PhD of the UP Diliman Marine Science Institute (MSI) has been recently conferred with the 2024 Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation Award by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Abesamis is currently working on climate-resilient coral reefs in two marine protected areas at the South Negros Marine Key Biodiversity Area. According to the Pew […]

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Marine Science Institute (MSI) of the UP Diliman College of Science, the institute held a lecture series featuring its faculty members, beginning with Fernando P. Siringan, PhD, on Sept. 18 at the MSI Seminar Room. Siringan said the lecture series of the MSI will help the public […]

Early this year, three scientists from the Institute of Mathematics (IM) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Science (CS) made national headlines with their study, Block-level Optical Character Recognition [OCR] System for Automatic Transliterations of Baybayin Texts and Using Support Vector Machine (Block-level OCR System). Rodney Pino, Renier Mendoza, PhD, and Rachelle Sambayan, PhD, […]

A group of international researchers that included Gennevieve Macam, PhD, an associate professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics of the UP Diliman College of Science (CS) recently discovered that the behavior of Weyl fermions can be understood through the use of Albert Einstein’s ideas on causality. Weyl fermions are exotic subatomic particles […]

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 […]

Percival F. Almoro, PhD, a professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics (NIP) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Science (CS), was recently appointed section editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Optik: International Journal for Light and Electron Optics or simply, Optik. Optik publishes articles on all subjects related to light and […]