On October 26, 2007, UP Manila celebrated its 30th campus anniversary or its 30th year of being an autonomous campus of the University of the Philippines System. The whole-day affair was highlighted by a thanksgiving mass, a program, and a UP Manila Alumni Association homecoming, and served as a pre-UP Centennial celebration.
Speaking before his constituents, [...]

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The country’s top comic talents who graduated from the UP will have a show together to raise funds for the University. “Ciento Comico – 100 Years of Fun and Laughter” to be held on December 17, 7 p.m. at the UP Theater, is one way the UP Alumni Association (UPAA) is looking back at UP’s [...]

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by Rod P. Fajardo III

The downside to being a university administrator is that one hardly has time to do research. But the upside is that one is in the best position to enable others to do so.
That is why UP Diliman Chancellor Sergio S. Cao considers the Open Grant and Ph.D. Incentive Award two of [...]

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by Arlyn VCD Romualdo
On January 16, 2008, 2:00 p.m., the University of the Philippines will honor Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera, a UP alumnus and Harvard Foundation 2007 Scientist of the Year, by conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa. The event will be held at the UP Film Center, where he [...]

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As the University of the Philippines’s (UP) centenary approaches, constituent universities (CUs) have been gearing up for the celebrations. Recognizing the role of UP as the national university, CUs have initiated fund-raising projects to further improve their services to the faculty, students, and community.
Baguio
The UP Baguio Alumni-Student Complex, envisioned as a place where alumni can [...]

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Regent Edmundo M. Varona passed away on October 28, 2007—just five days after his birthday—due to a lingering illness. He was 71.
An alumnus of the University, Regent Varona earned his BS Agriculture degree at UP Los Baños in 1957. He then moved on to become a researcher at the UPLB Forest Products Research Institute, where [...]

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by Luisa A. Gelisan
Beginning in June 2008, the UP Open University (UPOU) will offer its new baccalaureate program, Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies (BAMS), under the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies.
The program will cover multimedia information and communication technologies; philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of developments in the field and their social implications; emerging [...]

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UP students were top winners in the 40th Shell National Students Arts Competition (NSCA).
Michael Vincent K. Uy won first prize in the sculpture category with his work “Babae Sayawan Mo ang Sayaw ng Buhay.” The oil/acrylic category was won by Gino L. Bueza with “Boundary Beyond Good and Evil.” Honorable mention in sculpture was won [...]

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by Arlyn VCD Romualdo
The University has good reason to celebrate. Of the ten honorees in this year’s The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) awards, seven are from UP. Five of them are currently professors and researchers in different units: Dr. Alyssa Peleo-Alampay of the UP Diliman (UPD) National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS); [...]

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by Francis Paolo M. Quina
Author and creative writing professor Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr. made history as one of five authors short-listed for the very first Man Asian Literary Prize. The short list was announced on October 25 in Hong Kong. The new annual prize is aimed at recognizing and promoting the best of Asian literature [...]

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