Two students of the UPV College of Arts and Sciences were the initial recipients of laptops with WiFi connectivity during a simple ceremony held at the Iloilo City campus today, October 30, 2020.
Carlyn Grace P. Ausmolo, and Pia Anne Marie S. Apsay, 2nd year and 3rd year BA Community Development, respectively, received the laptops from CAS Dean Ma. Severa Fe Katalbas and Associate Dean Nilo Araneta. The laptops were generated by the UPV-CAS Kaagapay Committee.
The Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) Research and Publication Committee (RPC) held its first online Research Forum live-streamed via the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Networks on 22 October 2020, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
The Research Forum featured selected studies of students from the different programs of UPOU FMDS. The studies cover a wide range of topics from student mobility in the ASEAN region, nursing work environment, public green spaces, health promotion, and status of research in higher education institutions (HEIs).
The University of the Philippines Mindanao celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2020. As part of the year-long activities, the School of Management (SOM) offers free webinars to the general public.
UP Mindanao hosted the online forum and consultation on “Bridging the Health Care Gaps In Mindanao” on 14 October 2020 for some 96 or more public health personnel, guests, and university constituents who attended through teleconferencing and social media platforms. The forum consultation is part of the plan to establish a UP Mindanao College of Medicine.
Sales, a faculty member at the Department of Development Communication of the Visayas State University (VSU) in Leyte, put forward art as a form of therapy that could help manage behaviors, process feelings, reduce stress and anxiety, and increase self-esteem.
Despite the pandemic, TLRC continues to perform its mandate to enhance teaching and learning experiences.
This year, TLRC launched its Virtual and Remote Assistance in Learning (VI.R.A.L) Program. This program aims at providing learning assistance to students to cope with the demands of remote learning.
In celebration of the 31st National Statistics Month, UP Cebu’s Mathematics Program of the College of Science has organized a series of Webinars on Statistics to be held on 15, 16, 19, and 27 October 2020.
The webinar series will have resource speakers from UP Diliman’s School of Statistics, and chief officers from the Community Based Monitoring System Office.
In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus in the campus, UPLB mobilizes a team that has been disinfecting campus buildings and facilities since March 17.
This team is led by Dr. Sheryl Yap, together with the staff of the Institute of Weed Science, Entomology and Plant Pathology of the College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS-IWEP), where she is the director.
Two medicinal plants took the spotlight at the webinar entitled “Rummaging nature’s arsenal: botanicals versus SARS-CoV-2” on Sept. 29 because of their potentials for use against COVID-19.
Webinar speaker Dr. Lourdes B. Cardenas, a botany professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences and a curator for medicinal plants at the Museum of Natural History (MNH), presented the plants that can potentially be harnessed for their medicinal properties in treating COVID-19 patients.
The University of the Philippines serves as the country’s premier community of scholars, experts, academics and researchers, and a rich reservoir of knowledge, information, cutting-edge research, innovations and technologies. In accordance with its mandate as the country’s national university, tasked with taking the lead in the country’s national development as a teaching, graduate, research and public service university, UP makes it a point to open up its repository of knowledge and expertise to all sectors and members of the general public, and make its resources available to all who seek to learn, to do research and to sincerely serve the country and its people.
