Four constituent universities of the University of the Philippines are among the five best performing schools in the August 2025 Food Technologist Licensure Examination. In its August 16, 2025 release, the Professional Regulation Commission announced that UP Diliman topped the list with a 100% passing rate, as all 40 of its test takers […]

    The University of the Philippines and the Department of Budget and Management have entered into a memorandum of understanding to begin good faith negotiations toward a final agreement allowing the department to construct its DBM Diliman Building in UP Diliman.    The signing took place on August 13 at Quezon Hall, UPD with […]

Young virtuoso Zildjian Zachary Viray displays both maturity of control and showmanship in his dramatic performance of Prokofiev’s unconventional and highly-technical Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10. Photo by Kevin Roque, UP MPRO. A historic moment unfolded at the University of the Philippines as piano keys resonated with the repertoire of 20th […]

    “We were built for the underserved, the geographically distant, the working Filipinos, the OFWs, the second-chance learners, those balancing multiple roles, those who couldn’t always be physically present but whose right to UP education remains just as valid [and] urgent,” declared Dr. Joane Vermudo Serrano, fifth chancellor of the University of the Philippines […]

    “In barricades embattled, fighting in delirium,   Others give you their lives without doubts, without gloom.   The site naught matters: cypress, laurel, or lily:   Gibbet or open field: combat or cruel martyrdom   Are equal if demanded by country and home.”   University of the Philippines President Angelo Jimenez, at the reception he hosted for […]

  The University of the Philippines and De La Salle University, in cooperation with the ASEAN University Network, co-hosted the 16th AUN Rectors’ Meeting and the 40th AUN Board of Trustees Meeting in Manila on July 23 to 25, 2025.  Attended by presidents, rectors, chancellors, or designated officials of AUN member universities from Brunei Darussalam, […]

  Finally, electricity!  On June 16, Datu Saldong Domino Elementary School — an off-grid school in Sitio Tagpangi, Barangay Simbalan, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte — said goodbye to teaching, learning, and working in dimly lit rooms, and said hello to technologies that relied on electricity, including connectivity. It is the first public school to benefit […]

    “To the man who believes that education pays … to the man who protects the resources and makes possible the idea of a national university that serves the world by serving best the Filipino people … Cheers!” University of the Philippines President and UP Board of Regents Co-Chairperson Angelo Jimenez led the toast […]

“We make you see the air you breathe.” This was the bold statement of the UP Center for Air Research in Urban Environments (UP CARE), an interdisciplinary research program that provides a platform for real-time air quality monitoring using low-cost customized technologies. Funded by the Department of Science and Technology, the program caters to researchers, […]

Interdisciplinary collaboration is a key driver of innovation. Australian scientist Prof. Ivan Marusic emphasized this insight in his plenary talk at the Science Information Forum titled, “Complex Flows, Smart Systems: Rethinking Motion Through AI,” on July 8 at Gomez Hall, University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD). Marusic is the Australian Academy of Science vice president […]