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All 15 minutes away from home

Anna Regidor — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:44:46 +0000

What if everything that you needed for modern urban life—from working and shopping, to hospitals and schools—was just 15 minutes away from your home? A group of UP ��Ƶapp (UPD) students and their professor used this premise as basis to create a 15-minute city index, more known as FMCI, which measures how close a particular […]

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PRE December 2025 issue, now online

��Ƶapp Information Office — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:31:55 +0000

The Philippine Review of Economics (PRE) Volume LXII, No. 2 is now available online. PRE’s latest issue features six articles, a book review, and an in memoriam. The articles are Income Inequality, Weak Institutions, and the Emergence of Reform-Abortive Corruption by Raul V. Fabella, Karl Robert L. Jandoc, and Majah Leah V. Ravago; Nationalizing the […]

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Latest Dúnong journal, now available

Benito V. Sanvictores Jr. — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:06:55 +0000

The UP ��Ƶapp (UPD) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA) launched volume 3 of Dúnong: UPD Journal of Student Research (Dúnong) on Dec. 12 at the Vinzons Hall lobby. Dúnong Vol. 3 features 13 student research works divided into four categories: culture, memory, and national discourse; language, identity, and translation; digital culture, […]

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Deocampo finds oldest Filipino film

Benito V. Sanvictores Jr. — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:18:52 +0000

Film historian and filmmaker Nicolas Francisco “Nick” A. Deocampo has recently discovered what is now considered the oldest surviving Filipino film—the 1936 production Diwata ng Karagatan (Diwata)—in Brussels, Belgium. “I was in Brussels in the 1990s, joining some film festivals and winning some awards. And I visited the archive, Cinémathèque royale de Belgique [Royal Belgian […]

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Recording Sagada’s music

Mariamme D. Jadloc — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:46:00 +0000

To record Sagada’s traditional vocal and instrumental repertoire—this was the purpose of the project Collection and ReCollection: Recording the Traditional and Instrumental Repertoire in Sagada (Collection and ReCollection). The project wants “to sustain the continued documentation of living traditions, while continuing to preserve the older records,” according to the report by Collection and ReCollection Project […]

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SolAsin supports revitalizing the salt industry

Benito V. Sanvictores Jr. — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:53:06 +0000

SolAsin, a portable and sustainable salt farming unit using solar light, is the result of John Carlo Luna Reyes’ thesis SolAsin – An Accessible, Sustainable, and Eco-friendly Premium Salt Farming Unit for Coastal Use. Reyes is a fresh graduate of the UP ��Ƶapp (UPD) College of Fine Arts (CFA), where he completed his Bachelor of […]

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UP scientists develop model to detect LVI

Mariamme D. Jadloc — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:48:39 +0000

According to the Global Cancer Observatory by the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer, breast cancer was the most common cancer in the Philippines in 2022. It also claimed close to 12,000 lives in the Philippines that year, making it the country’s second leading cause of cancer-related deaths after lung cancer. On […]

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EEEI students and the bangka’s electrification

Anna Regidor — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:10:31 +0000

A group of students from the ��Ƶapp (UPD) College of Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI) designed an electric-powered propulsion system for the bangka, the country’s traditional rural fishing boats. Their project, Electrification of Boats for Small-Scale Rural Fishing, was conducted by students Marissa Munar and Sheryl Diokno, along with […]

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NSRI publishes work on SGD microorganisms

��Ƶapp Information Office — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:52:01 +0000

A research team from UP ��Ƶapp (UPD) found microorganisms in Mabini, Batangas whose genes have potential medical and biotechnological applications. Joshua T. Veluz, Paul Christian T. Gloria, Laurence Anthony N. Mallari, Ann Elizabeth R. Enova, and Maria Auxilia T. Siringan from the Natural Sciences Research Institute and the Marine Science Institute of the UPD College […]

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Scientists develop method for time-dependent culture maps

��Ƶapp Information Office — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:52:14 +0000

Researchers from the UP ��Ƶapp (UPD) National Institute of Physics (NIP) have developed a data analytical technique for tracking temporal cultural evolutions. An information-retrieval method for creating time-dependent culture maps was created and demonstrated by the research team composed of Caesar A. Saloma, John Lawrence Euste, and Hannah Christina Arjonillo. The research team made use […]

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PRE December 2024 issue, now online

��Ƶapp Information Office — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:31:48 +0000

The Philippine Review of Economics (PRE) Volume LXI, No. 2 is now available online. The latest issue has seven articles. The articles were presentations in a roundtable discussion on industrial policy on Oct. 17-18, 2024, and then revised for publication. Each article was followed by comments from the discussants on the said roundtable discussion. The […]

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The pig’s meaningful role in Pinoy culture

��Ƶapp Information Office — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 05:49:11 +0000

A study by a team of researchers from the UP ��Ƶapp (UPD) School of Archaeology (SA) revealed that a strong and meaningful link between the Filipinos and pigs exists throughout history (and prehistory). The research This Little Piggy: Pig-Human Entanglement in the Philippines (This Little Piggy) by authors Joan Quincy Lingao, Juan Rofes, Michelle Eusebio, […]

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