Category: NEWS & EVENTS

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.

MIAGAO, Iloilo — The University of the Philippines (UPV), through the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences – Institute of Aquaculture (CFOS-IA), signed a collaborative research agreement with Trading Room, Inc. for the project “Development of Immunoactive and Growth Promoting AquaFeed Additive from Ulva Seaweed” (UPV-DOST Ulva Seaweed CRADLE Project) at the UPV Fisheries Technology and Business Incubator building, Miagao campus, on 5 July. 

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

LOOK: The University of the Philippines System announced the renewal of the video conferencing services

MUNTINLUPA City — UP Los Baños led the International Conference on Academic Practice in Higher Education (ICAPHE) last 30 June

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. 

LOOK: The Board of Regents (BOR) approved UP Cebu’s adoption of UP Diliman Associate in Arts (Sports Studies) Program

MANILA TIMES — CREATED by a team from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), HEAL-PH mobile application bagged the top prize at the “Food is Life Exemplified: Planetary Health Diet” (FLExPHD) app development competition.