In an interview with the Philippine News Agency, Ebora said the development of the app is under the Smarter Approaches to Reinvigorate Agriculture as an Industry in the Philippines (SARAI) program led by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and funded by the PCAARRD.
An online helpdesk for applicants to UP admission who have questions or may be having difficulty with the admission process was launched on Jan. 12. Student organization UP ALYANSA (Alyansa ng mga Mag-aaral para sa PanlipunangKatwiran at Kaunlaran) launched UP Admissions 2021 Helpdesk, a major ad hoc project “for student empowerment and the promotion […]
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’ COVID-19 efforts from November 1 to 30.
As part of its mandate of keeping UPLB hazard-free, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs (OVCCA) initiated a campus-wide collection of chemical wastes on Dec. 3, 7, and 16, 2020.
This is also in accordance with the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) that OVCCA is maintaining with the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR) since 2016.
The UP Diliman Emotional Support Animals (ESA) Program which was launched in 2019 by then UPD Chancellor Michael Tan, provides psychosocial support for students and university staff that may experience stress, depression, or anxiety. The program manages, trains, and utilizes campus animals to render emotional and therapeutic support to those who need them.
Recently, new SARS-CoV-2 variants were detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa with multiple spike protein mutations that may cause substantial changes in certain properties of the virus. These observations spurred biosurveillance efforts in different countries, with some countries outside of the UK and South Africa already reporting the presence of these new variants within their territories. The data presented in this report is part of our own continuing biosurveillance efforts to track the entry of these new variants in the country, as well as other viral mutations that may be of concern locally.
The University of the Philippines gives thanks to all the UP alumni and friends who donated to the UP Fights COVID-19! campaign. The donations are set to be sent to the members of the UP community, including frontline health workers in the health service units, students stranded in dormitories, on-campus, and off-campus residences, professor emeriti, skeleton workforce staff, and other members in the different Constituent Universities.
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’ COVID-19 efforts from October 1 to 31.
The members of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) Los Baños Chapter participated in the Tree Planting and Growing Activity of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region IV-A CALABARZON and the A. Nocon Realty and Development Corporation (ANRDC) at the 571-hectare National Greening Program (NGP) plantation area in Barangay Cansuso, Cavinti, Laguna on December 4, 2020.
THE University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is currently studying the efficacy of the saliva test in determining the presence of the novel coronavirus, in a bid to lower the cost of more accurate Covid-19 tests and make them more accessible to the public.
