Category: DILIMAN

Journal Online — Monitoring the health of marine environments is a laborious activity, but is essential for evaluating the success of reef protection and rehabilitation initiatives. A fish census commonly involves divers swimming along a transect line, usually marked by a plastic cord, and visually counting and identifying the fish species that they encounter. This painstaking process requires trained experts and highly knowledgeable divers to accurately record data on species, size, and abundance.

QUEZON City — UP NISMED hosted an intensive seven-day STEM Immersion Program from 19 to 27 June for three students from Philippine Science High School (PSHS) – Central Mindanao and Southern Mindanao campuses and Ateneo de Davao University. 

manilastandard.net — Filipino mathematicians have just invented a computerized method for converting entire paragraphs and even full documents written in the ancient Filipino Baybayin writing system into text that even non-native readers can easily understand

DILIMAN, Quezon City — Partido State University (ParSU) officials visits UP Diliman (UPD) for possible academic, research, and extension collaborations.

UP DILIMAN — Five faculty members from UP Diliman were included in this year’s Top 100 Asian Scientists. 

JOURNAL ONLINE — The University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Science’s Institute of Biology (UPD-CS IB) recently entered into an international research collaboration to fight a parasitic snail-borne tropical disease affecting millions of Filipinos nationwide.

ASIA RESEARCH NEWS — Analyses of fossils and sediments from Tam Pà Ling (“Cave of Monkeys” in Lao) by an international team of scientists—including a Filipino researcher formerly from the University of the Philippines (UP) and currently at the Flinders University Microarchaeology Laboratory in South Australia—has pushed back the time when we know our species, Homo sapiens, was present in Mainland Southeast Asia. 

YUGATECH — The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) successfully launched two locally-built cube satellites (CubeSats)—Maya-5 and Maya-6—to the International Space Station (ISS) via the SpaceX Falcon 9 while on its 28th commercial resupply mission on June 5, 2023, at around 11:47 PM PST.

In partnership with the Department of Health, the UP Department of Food Science and Nutrition celebrated the Pista ng Kalusugan – Healthy Barangay, Healthy Pilipinas last 15-16 April 2022 at the Quezon City Memorial Circle with faculty members sharing essential discussions on food safety and nutrition.

MANILA, Philippines — A scientist and her student from the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UPD) have discovered a gene connecting cases of breast cancer to stress, and irregularities in the body clock. Molecular biologist Dr. Pia Bagamasbad and her student, Weand Ybañez “discovered a gene called Krüppel-like factor 9 (KLF9) that suppresses tumor […]