This Weekly Bulletin highlights the different COVID-19 responses of the eight UP Constituent Universities and their involvement in various public service initiatives during the pandemic. It features the UP System Report on the CUs’ public service initiatives from August 1-31.
The Quezon City Government has partnered with the University of the Philippines-Resilience Institute in developing a Drainage Master Plan (DMP) for the City.
Mayor Joy Belmonte revealed the good news in a chat message to Maharlika TV network (MTVN) saying that this landmark project only needs to integrate with the national government’s development plan before it will be executed.
Project Marayum was led by Assistant Professor Mario Carreon of the Department of Computer Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman, the DOST-PCIEERD said in a news release.
The project sought to produce an online language dictionary which can be modified by registered members of a specific community who mainly uses the language.
UPLB conducted its 83rd Seminar On Teaching on Aug. 23-26, a historic one because it was the first-ever virtual iteration of the seminar meant to orient and familiarize newly hired individuals with everything they needed to know to be a member of UPLB’s teaching staff.
Entitled “SOT:Facilitating Learning”, the seminar featured guest lectures and talks from speakers on a variety of topics such as academic and administrative policies for faculty.
The pandemic has affected and changed practically every aspect of our lives. Some may have changed for the better, others ended being worse, and a few had a little of both. Regardless of the type of change we had, we can’t deny that our health has been immensely impacted by the current situation, especially that […]
The University of the Philippines, through the Padayon Public Service Office, has made the Call for Nominations to the fourth Gawad Pangulo: Award for Excellence in Public Service. This year’s theme, “Galing UP, Lingkod Bayan: Pagtugon sa Hamon ng Pandemya,” aims to award 15 excellent and outstanding COVID-related public service initiatives facilitated and implemented by faculty and staff in all UP Constituent Universities.
As the culture of research and extension continues in the University amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tuklas UPLB segment under Radyo DZLB’s Galing UPLB! program got off the ground with informative and inspiring discussions on plant disease research and volunteerism in UPLB.
May 2021 marked the launch of Tuklas UPLB, becoming the newest addition to the Galing UPLB! program. The segment’s name “tuklas” means to discover – a Filipino term fit to use when talking about the research and extension (R&E) outputs and activities that UPLB is known for. It also showcases first-hand narratives of hardworking and outstanding UPLB REPS and faculty members.
The Human Resources Development Office (HRDO) will hold a webinar series to orient administrative support staff of UPLB on how to fill in a template guide to hire personnel under individual contracts of service or ICS.
The featured guests of Tuklas UPLB in July showed that UPLB remains true to its mission to serve the public through its research and extension activities, especially during this pandemic. They discussed the role and applications of mathematics in improving the government’s response to COVID-19, and the potential of edible landscaping technology toward food self-sufficiency of Filipinos.
The Department of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies (DBSES) and Department of Food Science and Technology (DFST) and the Department of Humanities (DH) of UP Mindanao in partnership with the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Mindanao put forward a public service program for Mindanao researchers and collaborators through research assistance coupled with technical support on species identification. The sets of data generated from this research may contribute to a broad range of applications from taxonomy, biodiversity conservation programs, and opportunities for bio-economy in Mindanao that can significantly help Philippine biodiversity.
