Author: Padayon UP

The Training of Trainers is a regionwide project. It will be conducted in the other provinces of Western Visayas – Capiz, Aklan, and Negros Occidental in the coming weeks. One of the visions of the project is to maximize the use of the NCD flipchart in the scale-up of the NCD training to other BHWs and medical professionals in Western Visayas.

Faculty members from the University of the Philippines Visayas comprised the Training of Trainers team, which includes Dr. Philip Ian P. Padilla, Prof. Jude Vincent E. Parcon, Dr. Adrienne Marrie S. Bugayong-Janagap, and Prof. Julie E. Prescott. 

GDP Director Prof. Ysabella P. Cainglet, through a recorded message, talked on Gender Awareness and Sensitivity Orientation, citing, among others, the various laws that protect and promote the rights and well-being of women and all genders. Meanwhile Prof. Aniceta Patricia T. Alingasa, Coordinator of the UPV Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment gave an orientation on anti-sexual harassment.

As the country slowly approaches its third year of combating the pandemic, the University of the Philippines (UP) remains unyielding and continues to show exemplary efforts in fulfilling its mandate of leadership as a public service university. This report contains the different public service initiatives mobilized by each of the eight Constituent Universities (CUs) across the UP System, each primarily addressing the struggles of the community amidst the new normal.

A team of researchers from the Institute of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries and Ocean Science, UP Visayas (UPV-CFOS) has developed a seaweed-based dietary supplement that improves the profitability and sustainability of cultured aquatic animals.

The study led by Prof. Rex Ferdinand M. Traifalgar, CFOS-IA director and an expert in nutritional immunology, found that the eubiotic feed supplement developed from seaweed significantly improved the feed conversion efficiency (FCE), growth performance, and gut health of farmed aquatic species such as tilapia, white shrimp, and milkfish.

The University of the Philippines will allow 100% face-to-face classes in all its undergraduate courses in the second semester of the current academic year, AY 2022-2023. This is complementary to the university’s adoption of hybrid and blended learning to equip students for the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and achieve educational resilience in a volatile and rapidly changing world.

The UPLB Environmental Stewardship Committee and UPLB Housing Office of OVCCA collaborated on this effort as part of UPLB’s campaign for proper waste management among university housing beneficiaries, personnel, and nearby communities. 

Almost a ton of e-wastes included computers, television monitors, mobile phones, compact disks, ink cartridges, wired items, household batteries, and other electronic accessories.

In this year’s UP Day of Remembrance, with the theme, “Manindigan sa Katotohanan, Itanghal ang Katarungan,” the University will again commemorate the legacy of resistance and heroism of these activists, many of whom are members of the UP community. As with the previous years’ Days of Remembrance, UP will hold a series of activities and events, both online and in person, in all constituent universities of the UP System across the country to share these stories with the younger generations of Iskolar ng Bayan and other patriotic Filipinos and keep the flame of truth and justice alive.