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A research team from UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp (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 […]

All 50 examinees from UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp (UPD) passed the November 2024 Geologist Licensure Examinations (GLE), giving the University a 100% passing rate and making it the lone top-performing school for this round of examinations. Leandro Ceasar A. Cediño, the first summa cum laude graduate of the UPD National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS), topped the […]

At the book talk and signing event of Mighty Flower: How Cannabis Saved My Son that the University Hotel and UP Press jointly organized, author Annabelle Manalo-Morgan emphasized that she advocates for research on medicinal cannabis. Manalo-Morgan is a cell and developmental biologist. She is on the board of directors and the lead scientific officer […]

Two UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp (UPD) College of Science (CS) professors and an academic unit from the UPD College of Engineering (COE) were this year’s recipients of the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) awards. Reynaldo L. Garcia, PhD of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (NIMBB) and Cristine D. […]

The UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp (UPD) Marine Science Institute (MSI) recently honored National Scientist Edgardo D. Gomez, its founder and the institute’s prime driving force, by renaming its building as the Edgardo D. Gomez Hall (Gomez Hall) at the celebration of its 50th founding anniversary. Three UPD chancellors gave messages on the day the MSI paid tribute […]

UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp (UPD) bids goodbye to five of its faculty members, three of whom passed away on the same day.

Rene Abesamis, PhD of the UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp Marine Science Institute (MSI) has been recently conferred with the 2024 Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation Award by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Abesamis is currently working on climate-resilient coral reefs in two marine protected areas at the South Negros Marine Key Biodiversity Area. According to the Pew […]

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Marine Science Institute (MSI) of the UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp College of Science, the institute held a lecture series featuring its faculty members, beginning with Fernando P. Siringan, PhD, on Sept. 18 at the MSI Seminar Room. Siringan said the lecture series of the MSI will help the public […]

Early this year, three scientists from the Institute of Mathematics (IM) of the UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp (UPD) College of Science (CS) made national headlines with their study, Block-level Optical Character Recognition [OCR] System for Automatic Transliterations of Baybayin Texts and Using Support Vector Machine (Block-level OCR System). Rodney Pino, Renier Mendoza, PhD, and Rachelle Sambayan, PhD, […]

A group of international researchers that included Gennevieve Macam, PhD, an associate professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics of the UP ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵapp College of Science (CS) recently discovered that the behavior of Weyl fermions can be understood through the use of Albert Einstein’s ideas on causality. Weyl fermions are exotic subatomic particles […]