On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on climate change, declaring that failure in doing appropriate measures to address climate change can be an internationally wrongful act. Below is an article by Marielle Justine C. Sumilong, assistant professor of speech communication at the ³Ô¹ÏÂÛ̳Department of Speech Communication and […]

At the 1402nd meeting of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) on Aug. 28, appointments of four faculty members from UP Diliman (UPD) as deans were approved—three new and one re-appointment. Gwen Grecia-De Vera, associate professor at the UP College of Law (UP Law); Cynthia P. Saloma, PhD, professor at the National Institute of Molecular […]

The Search Committee for the Deanship of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Science (CS) invites the UP community to a public forum on Thursday, July 31, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the ³Ô¹ÏÂÛ̳Institute of Biology.

According to the Global Cancer Observatory by the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer, breast cancer was the most common cancer in the Philippines in 2022. It also claimed close to 12,000 lives in the Philippines that year, making it the country’s second leading cause of cancer-related deaths after lung cancer. On […]

A research team from UP Diliman (UPD) found microorganisms in Mabini, Batangas whose genes have potential medical and biotechnological applications. Joshua T. Veluz, Paul Christian T. Gloria, Laurence Anthony N. Mallari, Ann Elizabeth R. Enova, and Maria Auxilia T. Siringan from the Natural Sciences Research Institute and the Marine Science Institute of the ³Ô¹ÏÂÛ̳College […]

All 50 examinees from UP Diliman (UPD) passed the November 2024 Geologist Licensure Examinations (GLE), giving the University a 100% passing rate and making it the lone top-performing school for this round of examinations. Leandro Ceasar A. Cediño, the first summa cum laude graduate of the ³Ô¹ÏÂÛ̳National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS), topped the […]

At the book talk and signing event of Mighty Flower: How Cannabis Saved My Son that the University Hotel and UP Press jointly organized, author Annabelle Manalo-Morgan emphasized that she advocates for research on medicinal cannabis. Manalo-Morgan is a cell and developmental biologist. She is on the board of directors and the lead scientific officer […]

Two UP Diliman (UPD) College of Science (CS) professors and an academic unit from the ³Ô¹ÏÂÛ̳College 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 ³Ô¹ÏÂÛ̳chancellors gave messages on the day the MSI paid tribute […]