Memorandum No. PAEP: 16-42: Second Call for the One UP Professorial Chair and...
A second call for application to the One UP Professorial Chair and Faculty Grant Awards is hereby announced to commence on 8 August 2016 (Monday) and end on 30 September 2016 (Friday). The same...
View ArticleUP Manila welcomes its 2016 Freshmen
Students at the UP Manila Freshmen Assembly. Photo by Bong Arboleda (UPSIO). At the UP Manila Welcome Freshmen Assembly held on August 1st at the Girl Scouts of the Philippines Auditorium in Manila, UP...
View ArticleNew batch of UP Artists and Scientists named
The UP Scientists for 2016-2018 with UP System and constituent university heads. At the back is Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs Jose Wendell Capili, master of ceremonies. Photo by Jun...
View ArticleUP, PCID hold 2016 Islam and Democracy Forum
Bandung, Indonesia Mayor Mochamad Ridwan Kamil delivering his lecture. Photo by Jun Madrid. The 2016 Islam and Democracy Forum, a series of lectures organized by the Philippine Center for Islam and...
View ArticleUP biodiversity research team launches book on Luzon mammals
Dr. Lawrence Heaney. Photo by Bong Arboleda. “It is not Brazil, nor Madagascar, not even the Galápagos Islands that has the most stunning, gorgeous, and extraordinary mammals I have ever come to know...
View ArticleUP co-organizes Asian knowledge networking conference
CRRU President Thosapol Arreenich (extreme left, partly shown) introduces UP President Alfredo Pascual to Thai university officials. Photo by Bong Arboleda. The UP System Office of International...
View ArticleSC decision on Bt eggplant brings ‘rays of hope’ to UP scientists, agri...
UP Vice President for Academic Affairs Gisela P. Concepcion. Photo by Jun Madird (UPSIO). According to UP Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA) Gisela P. Concepcion, the recent decision of the...
View ArticleBuildings to rise for UPLB-CEM
Vice Chancellor Marish Madlangbayan, Dean Isabelita Pabuayon, President Alfredo Pascual, and Chancellor Fernando Sanchez take turns “breaking ground” for the future CEM buildings. Photo by Jun Madrid...
View ArticleCall for Nominations for the Next U.P. President
The UP Board of Regents (BOR) is now inviting nonninations for the UP President who will succeed the incumbent whose term will end on 9 February 2017. At its 1319th BOR meeting on 28 July 2016, the...
View ArticleUP CIS to stage Noh play on Bonifacio’s life
Discover The “B” in BGC Meet the “B” of BGC – Bonifacio, the Father of the Philippine Revolution, as he takes center stage in UP Diliman’s Center for International Studies’ (UPCIS) intercultural...
View ArticleFilipino students chat with Dror Cohen of Waze
UP students listen intently to Mr. Dror Cohen’s lecture on Waze. Photo by El Bacani, UPSIO. UP Diliman (UPD) students joined students from at least 7 other universities as they conversed with Dror...
View Article‘The Journey of Mankind’ comes to UP Diliman
Visitors view the exhibit at the lobby of UP Diliman’s Albert Hall. Photo by Jun Madrid (UPSIO) An iconic collection of prehistoric human remains and stone tools that forever changed theories of human...
View ArticleMessage of the President at the UP Baguio Pagtatapos 2016
23 June 2016, Baguio Convention Center, Baguio City We make a living by what we take, but we make a life by what we give. This quote is often mistakenly attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, but...
View ArticleMessage of the President at the 19th Commencement Exercises of UP Mindanao
28 June 2016, UP Mindanao Administration Building, Davao City UP Mindanao graduating students of 2016, congratulations for a job well done. I am honored to have this opportunity to speak before you...
View ArticleMessage of the President at the 79th Commencement Exercises of UP Cebu
28 June 2016, UP Cebu Campus, Lahug, Cebu City Let me greet our dedicated UP officials, faculty, REPS, and admin staff; our loyal alumni; our students (the best and brightest in the country); the proud...
View ArticleMessage at the Second Manila Conference on the South China Sea
4 August 2016, Manila Hotel Distinguished Speakers, Esteemed Participants, Good Afternoon! Let me first congratulate the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for organizing this Second Manila Conference on...
View ArticleNASA Engr shares “what it takes to operate a rover on Mars”
Gregorio Villar III. Photo from UP EEE. “When you think of operating something, you think of the control room. Once again, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a lot of people and rooms...
View ArticleUP hosts 1st Global Labour University Asia Alumni Workshop
Photo by Bong Arboleda (UPSIO). The University of the Philippines hosted the first Global Labour University Asia Alumni Workshop where international and local labor scholars, trade union leaders and...
View ArticleConstruction of new music buildings, renovation of Abelardo Hall Auditorium
Photo by Bong Arboleda (UPSIO). On August 9, a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the UP College of Music for the construction of its new music buildings and the renovation of the Abelardo Hall...
View ArticleLeyte-based radio broadcaster receives UP award
Radio broadcaster Francisca “Babes” Custodio delivers her UP Gawad Plaridel lecture. Photo by jun Madrid (UPSIO). The UP Gawad Plaridel, the sole award of the University for outstanding media...
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