On April 1, EL delivered freshly picked kamote tops, eggplants, red and green lettuce, chili,spring onions, señoritabananas, and papaya, as well as edible flowers like samsamping(blue ternate) and katuray(vegetable hummingbird) to Office of Student Activities (OSA) Director Rocky Marcelino.
OSA is an office under the recently elevated Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs from what was the Office of Student Affairs. Dr. Eleno Peralta heads the OVCSA.
The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) has offered to convert its existing research laboratories to become a subnational testing center for the coronavirus.
Among the university’s options are laboratories housed at the Institute of Plant Breeding or the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH), with facilities both located right outside the academic campus.
Once functional, UPLB’s testing hub could be the first in Southern Luzon to complement the national government’s efforts to mass test thousands of suspected virus carriers.
Constituent Universities’ Weekly Bulletin (Week 2)
Updates as of 31 March 2020
The Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) got another boost in its coronavirus disease 2019 (CoViD19) testing mission with another batch of supplemental equipment donated by the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) through its Philippine Genome Center (PGC Visayas).
Data scientists from the University of the Philippines project the virus to infect around 600,000 to 1.4 million individuals in the country, with 80% from Metro Manila.
In its report, the UP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team emphasized the need for community collaboration to fight the deadly virus, which has infected nearly one million people across the globe.
UPLB may be on SOS mode as it raised an urgent call for donations to provide food and other needs of around 1,500 of its students who are stranded in dorms inside and outside the campus due to the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).
But its heart for service as an institution and the independent acts of kindness of its constituents shine through the challenge that the country is facing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Constituent Universities’ Weekly Bulletin (Week 1)
Updates as of 24 March 2020
Meghan Sevilla and Sofia Tagle, 4th year BS Food Technology students from UP Diliman’s College of Home Economics (CHE), formulated and produced a ginger-calamansi concentrate called Lucal. Lucal can easily be consumed when mixed with warm or cold water.
Over the past week, the UP Cebu Center for Environmental Informatics, has been collecting data from seven (7) hospitals across the province to check the status of their PPEs.
Scientists from the University of the Philippines are designing a more affordable ventilator that will help patients with the novel coronavirus breathe, the health department said Wednesday as cases of the respiratory disease continued to climb.
The UP-National Institutes for Health in Manila has almost finished designing the ventilator, said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, who declined to give more details about the project.
