Author: Padayon UP

UPLB, through the Office of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA), facilitated the repatriation of seven students and their five dependents to Timor Leste under the Oplan Hatid program. 

The repatriation was carried out in coordination with the Embassy of Timor Leste in Manila, UPLB Office of the Chancellor, and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). 

The students, all SEARCA scholars, and their dependents, were ferried from the UPLB campus aboard a SEARCA vehicle and UPLB coaster at 5:30 AM today, 6 November.

In celebration of the Native Plants Week and the annual Ibagiw Festival, the Native Plants Committee of the College of Science, University of the Philippines Baguio in collaboration with the Ibagiw Festival Organizers bring you a blend of art, culture, and science!

Residents of UPLB staff housing facilities who need a safe place to stay tonight during the expected onslaught of Typhoon Rolly in the campus are encouraged to evacuate to Baker Hall as soon as possible.

In anticipation of the damaging winds and strong rains that Typhoon Rolly will bring to the campus, Chancellor Jose V. Camacho, Jr. designated Baker Hall as evacuation center for UPLB staff residing in over 200 staff housing facilities in the campus.

The UPLB Gender Center (UPLB-GC) led the university’s participation in this year’s Pride Month through “GendER Episode 6: Breaking stereotypes, celebrating pride,” a Facebook live webinar held on Oct. 23 that discussed the plight that LGBT+ individuals face when dealing with gender biases.

The webinar’s guest speakers had several things in common – both are UP alumni, are members and advocates of the LGBT+ community, and had served as hosts of Out!, a magazine program that aired on GMA-7 in 2004, which tackled the life and issues of the LGBT+ community.

The University of the Philippines Open University’s Faculty of Management and Development Studies’ (FMDS) Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN) program in collaboration with the Gerontology Nurses Association of the Philippines (GNAP) conducted a Let’s Talk it Over (LTiO) webinar entitled “Caring for the Older Person amidst COVID-19 Pandemic” on 28 October 2020 via UPOU Networks.

The Office of Student Affairs, in collaboration with the Human Resource Development Office, Information Technology Office, and Ugnayan ng Pahinungod is inviting you to attend a Webinar on “KEEPING MENTAL HEALTH IN-CHECK: Ginhawa (well-being) in the New Normal’’ on 29 October 2020 (Thursday), 2 PM via Zoom. Dr. Violeta “Doc Bolet” V. Bautista, licensed clinical psychologist, director of the UP Diliman Psychosocial Services, and professor emeritus of the Department of Psychology, is the resource person. 

With a global pandemic forcing people to adjust to a new normal, some might be getting overwhelmed by thoughts and feelings that may be hard to process.

To help cope with the immensity of stress and anxiety, the Learning Resource Center (LRC’s)’s latest session of the “Unplugged” webinar series invited the UPLB community to learn about starting a personal journal.

Ida Torres, a digital marketing specialist at OMF Literature and a journal writer herself, led the webinar entitled, “The art of journaling: learn how to start journaling to regain focus and motivation” on Oct. 21 that was livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube.

UP Visayas College of Management (UPV CM) alumni batch Bluechips93 turned over to UPV its donation in support of ISKOmpyuter Drive last October 21, 2020, at the New CM Lobby, UPV Iloilo City campus. 

Bluechips93 gave 10 tablets, ranging from 8-inch to 10-inch, amounting to Php77,900. The tablets were intended to be for the use of UPV CM’s students. The alumni batch chose three accountancy students, two marketing students, and five management students to be the beneficiaries.