Category: NEWS & EVENTS

In light of the government’s thrust to promote urban farming, the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday unveiled the Urban Agri Hydro Hub Learning Center at The Pop Up Katipunan in Quezon City.

“This launching serves as our first step in reaching our goal. Today, we established our country’s first urban farming hydroponic research and training facility to overcome food shortages and heal hunger in the Philippines,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in his speech.

The project is a collaboration of the DA, the Philippine Association of Agriculturists Inc. (PAA), University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Institute of Biology, and The Freshest.

The pandemic and the presence of variants of the new coronavirus has thrust a little-known agency into the limelight: the Philippine Genome Center (PGC).

The PGC has been tasked to do genomic sequencing, an essential job in the country’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, since last year when variants of concern reared their heads.

The center was formed after the Philippines hosted the Human Genome Organization Conference in the Asia Pacific in 2008, which prompted then University of the Philippines (UP) President Emerlinda Roman to establish a committee to look into the creation of a genome center under UP.

The Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Project Smarter Approaches to Reinvigorate Agriculture as an Industry in the Philippines or SARAi has been launched in Tuguegarao City.

The University of the Philippines (UP) joins the global celebration of World Mental Health Day on October 10 as declared by the World Health Organization. This year’s celebration takes on the slogan “Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality,” in recognition of the need to scale up quality mental health services at all levels and to find new ways of providing mental health care to the people.

To help protect children with comorbidities against COVID-19, the Philippine General Hospital will be joining other government hospitals in administering vaccines that have secured Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to children ages 12-17.

The UPLB School of Environmental Science and Management (UPLB SESAM), through its Continuing Education and Training Division (CETD), launched a new seminar series called “SESAM ExChanges: Environmental Challenges and Solutions.” 

The program, held on Sept 30 via video conferencing and Facebook live streaming, also served as a venue to launch another capacity building program of CETD that intends to attract greater public participation to promote environmental awareness and advocacy in the country. 

Representatives from the camps of Vice President Leni Robredo, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, and Senator Grace Poe will discuss campaign dynamics and strategies in an online forum to be moderated by Pia Hontiveros of CNN Philippines on October 13. “Kanya-kanyang Diskarte: Campaign Dynamics During the Pandemic,” will be the third webinar under the National Forum on Communication and Democracy: […]

3,975 University of the Philippines Los Baños employees, which is 90% of the total workforce, have already been given COVID-19 vaccines as part of the University’s commitment to help protect its employees and promote a safe and healthy work environment.

Engineers from the UP Institute of Civil Engineering garnered international recognition for their design called Column Footing Grade Beam Monolith, a reinforcement solution that helps in retrofitting houses and improving their resilience to earthquakes and typhoons.

With museums taking a hit amidst restrictions regarding public spaces in the pandemic, the Museum of Natural History (MNH) highlighted ensuing challenges and opportunities as they celebrated their 45th anniversary online on Sept. 30, with the theme “Museums in the New Normal: Their Role in Education, Research, and Extension.”

Among their anniversary highlights were the launching of three digital projects, namely the MNH virtual reality tour, the Quicentennial Commemoration Virtual Exhibit, and the MNH digitized herbarium collection.