The University of the Philippines started its celebration of UP’s 100th founding anniversary on the morning of June 18, 2008 with festive ceremonies at the UP Diliman campus.
The various sectors of the UP community were fetched from different points at the Academic Oval by the Quezon City Hall and the Armed Forces of the Philippines [...]

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by KIM Quilinguing, Francis Paolo Quina, Bernice P. Varona
It was a star-studded extravaganza and a day of recognition for UP alumni who held a grand general homecoming at the Araneta Coliseum on June 21, 2008.
President Emerlinda R. Roman welcomed the alumni and lauded them for their untiring commitment to the University, especially in the celebration [...]

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Some constituent universities celebrated the UP Centennial in their campuses.
In UP Manila, a new Oblation statue was unveiled at the main gateway after a concelebrated mass at the PGH chapel. The CU also had a soft launch of a coffee-table book on its heritage, culture, and history and the launch of the Comprehensive Community Health [...]

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UP will be 100 years old next year. It’s a good time to remember our times on the campus, the good along with the bad, and to say “Salamat, UP.” On this page are some prominent alumni reminiscing and saying “thank you” to their alma mater.
We also print here the lyrics by Romeo Candazo of [...]

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by Vicki Bello-Jardiolin
UP people think they’re superior, special, the best. Of course, I agree. But what was in the UP experience, the triumphs and mainly trials that became heartfelt memories, that helped create that unique animal, the UP alumnus?
“Surviving that gauntlet called registration,” says Gerry Gabriel, AB Philo ‘85. “Camping out with my [...]

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President Emerlinda R. Roman
UP Manila
January 8, 2008

When I took over as UP President in 2005, I said then that I considered myself especially privileged to be not just the University’s first woman president, but the president who would guide the University into its second century. The prospect was both daunting and humbling.
I also said that [...]

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On January 8, 2008, the University of the Philippines, established by the Philippine legislature on June 18, 1908, kicked off its Centennial celebrations in a grand way as UP officials, faculty members, support staff, students, alumni, and friends arrived in droves to commemorate the milestone event. Many of the alumni came home from abroad and [...]

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On December 18, 2007, after almost two decades, the UP Diliman (UPD) campus was once again ringing with musical pieces played by 36 new carillon bells. Through the efforts of the UP Alumni Association (UPAA), the bells were imported from The Netherlands, the old clavier keyboard was replaced with a new heavy-duty oakwood one, a [...]

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On the morning of January 8, 2008, in the midst of all the problems of the country and the University, Dr. Emerlinda R. Roman, the Centennial president of the UP as well as its first woman president, said “there was this day to look forward to.”
“The thought that, perhaps, this anniversary would serve to unite [...]

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In a statement dated January 7, 2008 for the UP Centennial kick-off day, Senator Edgardo J. Angara, UP Centennial Commission Chair and a former UP president, envisioned UP as the leading research university in the country and in the region.
“UP should strengthen its position as the leading research university, firming up its science and technology [...]

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