Author: Padayon UP

Five programs in three UP constituent universities received the Third Gawad Pangulo for Excellence in Public Service in a ceremony held on February 28, 2019 in the College of Science Auditorium, National Science Complex, UP Diliman.These are: the UP Los Baños (UPLB) Bee Program of the UPLB Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension; the Partners in Leprosy Action of the Department of Medicine of UP Manila-Philippine General Hospital (UPM-PGH); the Patient-Centered, Family-Focused, and Community-Oriented Care for Families Enrolled at the Family Health Unit (FHU) of the FHU of the Department of Family and Community Medicine of UPM-PGH; the Disaster Risk Reduction, Training , Education, and Advocacy for Children’s Protection and Resilience Project (TEACH-DRR) of the UP Visayas (UPV) Center for West Visayan Studies; and, the Dayaw at Hanasan of the UPV Sentro ng Wikang Filipino.

Tinanggap ni Prof. Jose Julie E. Ramirez ang parangal para sa Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Visayas (UPV) bilang awardee sa 3rd Gawad Pangulo: Excellence in Public Service na ginanap noong 28 Pebrero 2019 sa UP Diliman, Lungsod Quezon dahil sa dalawang programa, Dayaw at Hanasan, na nilikha ni Prof. Ramirez.

To better reach out to the community, the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) recently launched a network to make people aware of its various public service and research activities through a social media platform. The launching took place at the Audio Visual Hall, CFOS, UP Visayas Miagao campus on February 21, 2019.

  The University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, has officially introduced its first batch of emotional support dogs as part of its “expanded idea” of upholding not just honor and excellence, but also compassion. According to UP Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan, having emotional support dogs was a convergence of two programs: strengthening psychosocial […]

On February 21 (Thursday), the University of the Philippines System will participate in the Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) to test the University’s evacuation procedures, communication protocol with the Emergency Operations Center, and the capacity to carry out its first response operations among its faculty, staff, and students as it has done in the past three years.

Join the drill on February 21 and use the hashtag #UPShakeDrill to document your NSED activities.

On 24 January 2019, faculty and staff from UP Open University (UPOU) participated in the 5th Philippines-Japan Forum on Ifugao Satoyama Meister Training Program (ISMTP) held at Ifugao State University (IFSU), Nayon, Lamut, Ifugao.

Dr. Elena E. Pernia is a professor of communication and concurrently the dean of the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman. She has over 20 years of experience in communication/media education, research, planning and evaluation. Her highly distinguished academic career focuses on capacity-building of students, local governments, health professionals, and civil society […]

The UPLB Dairy Training and Research Institute leads a program that will aim to produce 3,200 head of dairy calves, with each cow projected to add two liters of milk per day to the country’s supply in order to promote demand for local dairy sources, according to Dr. Amado Angeles, program leader and DTRI director.

The UP Padayon Public Service Office has accepted its second batch of writing fellows and has oriented them on writing scholarly articles based on their public service programs. The eight teaching, research and extension personnel underwent a two-day “write-shop” on November 8 and 9, 2018 at the National Institute for Science and Math Education Development, UP Diliman.

The fellows from six campuses went through sessions with University experts on qualitative and quantitative methods of research and on writing in the language that best applies to their writing projects.

Except for 2013, the blood drive has been held in April of each year in memory of Haydelle. Emely said that she has received messages telling her that they were excited to donate, that they were asking more of their friends to go with them, that perhaps the one-day event could be extended to two so that more donors could be accommodated.

Since the program started in 2012, the number of donors has been increasing and so has the number of partner organizations. It even encouraged more people to volunteer their services and sponsor items such as food and beverage for blood donors.

As a result, UPOU’s program has been cited by the PRC “for meritorious service rendered in the promotion of Blood Services.” Emely’s way of “paying it forward” doesn’t stop with the blood donation drive. UPOU is entitled to ten percent of its total blood collection, freely given to those in need. When it runs out and there are still indigent patients asking Emely for help, she calls other blood drive organizers to ask for their “free blood.” She also extends assistance to those who need to secure blood from the PRC.

Emely said that while the program was conceived by a mother’s gratitude, it owes a big part of its life to the University.