The University of the Philippines is holding a week-long virtual commemoration to honor Filipinos’ struggle under the Marcos regime as the country remembers the 49th year of the declaration of Martial Law.
Scholars of history and social sciences from UP and other universities, including those abroad, are teaming up with human rights activists “to set the record straight” on the myths surrounding the 14-year period and the Marcos regime itself.
Student developers from the University of the Philippines win big in the global Google Developer Student Clubs’ (DSC) 2021 Solution Challenge for their application called “Project Island Response and Intervention for Systematic Evacuation (i-RISE)” which aims to bridge the information gap between local government units, disaster risk management offices, and the island communities of Tubigon, Bohol using Google products.
Eighty-eight new freshies completed the UPLB Bridge Program (BP), an annual skills enhancement activity for mathematics and English aimed at bridging the gap between students’ high school exit skills and entry requirements in UP.
Held for three weeks, from Aug. 16 to Sept. 3, this is the second time for the BP to be conducted online by the Learning Resource Center (LRC), which also implemented the in-person program before the pandemic.
The Philippine Genome Center will focus its efforts in the detection of COVID-19 variants in the country, with the scaling down of its testing operations for COVID-19 and expansion of genomic sequencing capacities in PGC Visayas and PGC Mindanao.
UP Los Baños and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) will be leading a regional hub for the integration of halal in health knowledge development and management of livestock and ecosystems.
UP health experts weigh in on how vaccine hesitancy contributes to the mutation and formation of variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The UP Surgical Innovation and Biotechnology Laboratory (UP SIBOL) is composed of engineers from the state university’s Diliman campus and clinicians from its Manila campus, who have come together to develop Filipino-made health devices.
IN the effort to expand the coverage of Tuklas Lunas researches across the country considering the Philippines‘ rich biodiversity, the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DoST-PCHRD) funded the Discovery and Development of Health Products (DDHP) program, and one of its pioneer program is the Marine Component implemented by the University of the Philippines Diliman – Marine Science Institute. The […]
Findings by a team at the Division of Microbiology of the College of Arts and Sciences have opened a new research track that may yield a possible cancer treatment.
The team, led by Kristel Mae P. Oliveros, a faculty member at the Institute of Biological Sciences, has identified 30 bacteria from the soil samples of Mt. Mayon and isolated 13 that show antibiotic activity against pathogenic microorganisms.
Three research projects for the study of SARS-CoV-2 and disease outbreaks that are being undertaken by UP Mindanao and UP Diliman are utilizing the DOST Advanced Science and Technology Institute’s Computing and Archiving Research Environment (COARE) Supercomputing Facility.
