College of Engineering wins the best lantern for 2009
Winners for the Belen, exhibit and Karolfest contests also announced.
College of
Engineering,
1st prize winner
With a theme Kapaskuhan Kalikasan Kinabukasan, various colleges, degree granting units and other student organizations once again participated in one of the most anticipated events in the university and created lanterns that aimed to instill among the members of the UP community the fervent need to care for the environment.
For this year’s Lantern Parade, the College of Engineering (CoE) bagged the best lantern award. The second prize was given to the College of Architecture (CA) and the third prize went to the College of Science (CS).
The highlights of the event were the parade of the College of Fine Arts’ lanterns and fireworks display. Read more >>
TOWARDS A DISASTER-PREPARED NATION
A Statement of the University Council of the University of the Philippines Diliman
The damage caused by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng this year shows the inability of government to effectively respond to natural hazards. Since these can claim thousands of lives based on past experience, preparations should be set in place to make communities less vulnerable.
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JUSTICE TO AMPATUAN MASSACRE VICTIMS, NO TO MARTIAL LAW IN MAGUINDANAO!
A Statement of the University Council of the University of the Philippines Diliman
The University Council of the University of the Philippines Diliman condemns the brutal murder of more than 57 men and women in Maguindanao by members of government security and paramilitary forces apparently acting in behalf of a local warlord. While the killing of more than 31 journalists last November 23 is unprecedented in Philippine and all of human history, the killing of 26 other persons is itself unparalleled in the history of Philippine politics.
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Hagikhikan redux
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College of Science wins Karolfest 2009
College of Science student choir, 1st prize Karolfest 2009 winner
The College of Science (CS) student choir won the first prize in the Karolfest 2009, beating nine others from the academic units which joined this year’s competition.
The second and third prizes went to the College of Mass Communication (CMC) and College of Engineering (CoE), respectively.
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Kapaskuhan, Kalikasan, Kinabukasan
Christmas festivities highlight the environment.
Christmas at UPD. Quezon Hall basks in glow of Christmas lights, officially turned on by UP President Emerlinda R. Roman and UPD Chancellor Sergio S. Cao in the program Pag-iilaw, held 6 p.m. 2 Dec. The hour-long rite featured musical numbers from the UP Orchestra, as conducted by music professors Rodney Ambat and Edna Martinez. The program also included community singing of Christmas carols, led by hosts Dean Ramon Acoymo of the College of Music, Prof. Jovy Peregrino of the College of Arts and Letters and key officers of the UPD administration.
Nature, in particular the need to protect the environment, is the theme of UP Diliman’s Christmas festivities, as emphasized in the theme “Kapaskuhan, Kalikasan, Kinabukasan.”
Major activities are lined up, beginning with Pag-iilaw at 6 p.m. 2 Dec. to usher in the Christmas season on campus. The program features community singing with the UP Orchestra, and turning on of the festive lights on campus by UP President Emerlinda R. Roman and UPD Chancellor Sergio S. Cao. Hosted by College of Arts and Letters professor Dr. Jovy Peregrino, the program will be held at the Oblation Plaza of Quezon Hall. Read more >>
Pres. Roman’s Christmas message
Karolfest
Pagandahan ng mga Belen
Pamaskong Eksibbit
Paligsahan ng mga Parol
Journalists Slaughtered in the Line of Duty
Statement on the Maguindanao Massacre from the UP College of Mass Communication (UP-CMC)
The mutilated bodies of journalists Ian Subang (Dadiangas Times), Leah Dalmacio (Forum), Gina dela Cruz (Today), Marites Cablitas (Today), Joy Duhay (UNTV), Henry Araneta (DZRH), Andy Teodoro (Mindanao Inquirer), Neneng Montaño (formerly of RGMA), Bong Reblando, (Manila Bulletin), Victor Nuñez (UNTV), Mark Gilbert Ariola (UNTV), Jimmy Cabillo (UNTV), Jolito Evardo (UNTV, still missing), Daniel Tiamson (UNTV), Eugene Dohillo (UNTV), Bart Maravilla (Bombo Radyo, Koronadal) and lawyers Cynthia Oquendo and Connie Brizuela were recovered hours after they had set out to cover the filing of certificates of candidacy by the wife of a local official in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao yesterday. Read more >>
New Asian Center building inaugurated
Facilities will become a hub for cultural exchange.
The ACC Hall of Wisdom.
It was a day of celebrating Asian culture last December 2 with the inauguration of the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural (ACC) Center, a gleaming P100-million complex donated by Toyota Motor Philippines, the single most significant gift to the University in the course of its Centennial year.
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Father of Filipino Printmaking comes home
Works of Manuel Rodriguez Sr.’s works now at Bulwagan ng Dangal.
Father of Printmaking
in the Philippines'
Manuel Rodriguel Sr.
The finest works of Manuel Rodriguez Sr., art avatar and considered the Father of Filipino Printmaking, opened 27 Nov. at the Atelyer of Bulwagan ng Dangal (BND).
Entitled “Re-Viewing Rodriguez,” the collection showcases Rodriguez’s black-and-white and color etchings, serigraphs, aquatints, mezzotints, drypoints, collagraphs, watercolour and pencil drawings, acrylic and oil paintings.
The exhibit “is a fitting homage to a Filipino master who has been away from the country for 42 years,” notes its curator, College of Fine Arts (CFA) professor Ruben D. F. Defeo.
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Agos sa Disyerto still flows at 45
Legendary literary movement celebrates its 45th year anniversary.
Forty-five years ago, five college drinking buddies convened at the office of Manuel L. Quezon University’s (MLQU) school paper and conceived the now legendary anthology of short literary works in Filipino entitled Mga Agos sa Disyerto (Agos).
The five prolific writers, namely Dr. Efren R. Abueg, Dominador B. Mirasol (†), Rogelio L. Ordoñez, Edgardo M. Reyes and Rogelio R. Sikat (†), former College of Arts and Letters (CAL) dean, started a literary movement in the 1960s which gained popularity for redefining and deconstructing the conventions of creative writing in Filipino.
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Healing our hospitals
CoE alum sheds light on hospital woes and opportunities for engineers.
Allen Bacallan
What business does an engineer have in a hospital?
A lot, according Allen Bacallan, Chief Information Officer of Cardinal Santos Medical System, who was featured in the College of Engineering’s (CoE’s) Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series 9 Nov.
In his lecture entitled “The Hospital Is Sick, Call the Engineer Very Quick!”, Bacallan stressed how the engineering sciences are improving not just hospital operations in the country, but are also breaking new ground in medical research as well.
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Miclat is new Asian Center dean
Promises renewed program.
New Asian Center
dean. Dr. Mario
Miclat is sworn in by
UPD Chancellor
Sergio Cao.
The Asian Center (AC), home to the University’s multidisciplinary graduate programs on Asian Studies has just gotten a new man at the helm.
Dr. Mario Miclat was sworn in last Oct 23 by UPD Chancellor Sergio Cao to succeed Prof. Aileen Baviera.
Miclat is a full professor of Asian and Philippines Studies in UPD. He currently heads the permanent secretariat of the PhD Philippine Studies Program of the Tri-College. In 2007 he won the prestigious 2006 National Book Award for Beyond the Great Wall, a collection of essays on China, the Chinese and being Filipino which he co-authored with his wife Alma and daughters Maningning and Banaue.
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Llaguno gets props
Chemistry prof lauded for her IBC leadership.
Top award. Llaguno is presented a
plaque of appreciation by
Dr. Reynaldo Ebora, Chairman of the
DOST Biosafety Committee and Vice
Chancellor for Research and
Development Luis Sison.
Some leaders are measured not by the clatter of their reign, but by their quiet commitment.
Such was the case for Dr. Elma Caballes-Llaguno, chemistry professor and Assistant Director of the NSRI, who was recognized last October 9 for her dedication and service to the UPD Institutional Biosafety Committee (UPD-IBC).
In a solemn ceremony before her peers and some of the University’s highest officials, Llaguno was presented with a plaque of appreciation by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) for her dedication as Chairperson of the UPD-IBC. Read more >>
UPD renews partnership with German university
UP SURP Dean Candido A. Cabrido, Jr., UP
Diliman Chancellor Sergio S. Cao, TUDo Vice
Chancellor Walter Grunzweig and TUDo FSP
Dean Hans-Peter Tietz.
(SURP Research)—UP Diliman and the Technische Universitat Dortmund (TUDo) renewed their institutional partnership through a Memorandum of Agreement signed 18 Sept. at the TUDo in Germany.
The MOA involves academic exchange and cooperation between the UP School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) and the TUDo Faculty of Spatial Planning (TUDo FSP) in the joint offering of the Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies (SPRING) graduate program.
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