Author: Padayon UP

The University of the Philippines under the leadership of President Angelo A. Jimenez continues to devote efforts towards national development and serving Filipinos. All the initiatives held this March 2023 underlined the University’s outstanding and continued leadership in public service as seen in its safeguarding of human rights, particularly women’s rights, forging agreements and partnerships with national and international partners, promoting knowledge sharing and management, and providing social services to underserved communities.

  The UPLB Gender Center hosted a sex education forum titled #ComeTogether to promote safe and informed sexual practices in the university. The forum, held at DL Umali Hall on March 20, was attended by students, UPLB faculty and staff, health professionals, and advocates. The event included talks on various topics related to sex education, […]

The UPLB Learning Resource Center (UPLB LRC) held a webinar entitled “AI-Yos! How to Work Smarter with Artificial Intelligence Tools” on March 4 via online conferencing and live streaming on Facebook.

More than 300 enthusiastic cyclists joined Ride to LEAD: Padyak Laguna Para sa Lawa, a 54-kilometer cycling event, during the Anilag Festival on March 12.

UPLB’s partnership with Tipaklong Sustainable Mobility Corporation will contribute to the University’s thrusts towards making transportation in the campus more environmentally sustainable.

In conjunction with the global celebration of Women’s Month, the Grade 12 students coming from the Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) strand of the University of the Philippines High School in Iloilo (UPHSI) conducted an event titled “Malakas Ka, Maganda: A Poem-Reading Event in Celebration of the 2023 Women’s Month.” 

The official opening of the Kalakalan 2023 trade fair on March 6 to celebrate Women’s Month became one of the kick-off events of the UPLB Foundation Week festivities.

The UP Visayas alumni, through the Office of Alumni Relations, sent donations to the Municipality of Caluya to assist in the response efforts of the municipality in the mitigation of the MT Empress Princess Oil Spill in the island municipality located in the northen part of the province of Antique last week of February 2023.

Treatments for and management of addiction and depression may soon be available to Filipinos’ situation as a result of studies to be held at the National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines (UP Manila-NIH) Manila.

Chancellor Clement C. Camposano constituted a task force to respond to the oil spill that happened in Tablas Strait last Feb. 28, 2023, after a vessel known as MT Princess Empress carrying 800,000 liters of oil sank.