POWER UP, a project of the UP Visayas Division of Professional Education, is a reflective-reflexive public service program for coastal communities in the region that aims to improve education systems through teacher-trainings with emphasis on culture of coastal communities.
Faculty members, students, alumni and former faculty members of the Division of Professional Education of UP Visayas distributed bags and school supplies and bags to 50 elementary pupils from Estancia, Iloilo and Cawayan Elementary School, Carles, Iloilo on May 30, 2019.
The successful spawning of Tridacna gigas, a species of giant clams, by the Malampaya Foundation, Inc. last June 10, 2019 was supervised by the UP Marine Sciences Institute using methods it has developed in its decades of research on the clam species.
A research team led by Emmanuel Baja of the National Institutes for Health-University of the Philippines Manila found that being exposed to black carbon and heavy metals while on duty along EDSA, where hundreds of thousands of vehicles travel daily, affects traffic enforcers’ blood pressure and lung function.
The MLGP, which was initiated by the Department of Health Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) Western Visayas together with the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) and Zuellig Family Foundation, trains municipalities on responding to different health challenges in the municipal levels.
The UP System consulted UP offices that deal directly with students and student organizations in the first phase of a “gender mainstreaming” effort for the entire University.
In a workshop organized by the UP Padayon Public Service Office (PPSO) on April 29 and 30, 2019 at the UP Diliman (UPD) Institute of Small Scale Industries, the UP Technical Working (TWG) on Gender Sensitivity and Equality consulted with the constituent unit (CU) offices of student affairs, the registrar, gender, housing, health service, counseling and guidance, anti-sexual harassment, and student councils.
As the illegal narcotics trade in the country continues to thrive, the University of the Philippines (UP) has stepped forward as a new and unlikely partner of President Duterte in his war on drugs.
On Monday, UP Manila inaugurated its state-of-the-art Drugs of Abuse Research Laboratory (DARL), which boasts technology that can identify and analyze so-called designer drugs, or those not previously known to the government.
A team from the University of the Philippines Diliman Institute of Biology are working to perfect a DNA barcoding system to identify pangolin species that are recovered from trafficking operations.
The University of the Philippines, through the Padayon Public Service Office of the Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs (OVPPA), will host the 3rd Colleges and Universities Public Service Conference (CUPSCon 3) this October 16-18, 2019 in UP Visayas City Campus Auditorium, Iloilo City.
The Institute of Human Nutrition and Food (IHNF) has finally launched a clinic of its own – the Nutrition and Wellness Clinic.
