LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Dr. Gay Jane Perez was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States when she realized how much data can be culled from satellite images. Continue reading
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Joint UP Diliman-UC Berkeley mobile network project wins info innovation award
A low-cost community cellular networks project of the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP-D) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) won in this year’s Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia) Awards. Continue reading
PRRD appoints de Vera as CHED chairman
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Prospero “Popoy” E. de Vera III as chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), to serve until July 21, 2022. Continue reading
The University of the Philippines Is Getting a Billion-Peso Renovation Soon
To be carried out by the Department of Public Works and Highways.
(SPOT.ph) The Department of Public Works and Highways announced on September 10 that they have signed a memorandum of agreement with the state-run University of the Philippines to undertake the implementation of 20 construction and renovation projects in the campuses. Total cost of all projects is at P2.76 billion.
These construction and renovation projects will include school building facilities, dormitory buildings, restrooms, a gymnasium, a water-impounding lagoon, various campus road works, and an environmental research and outreach center. The agreement covers 12 projects in UP Diliman, three in UP Los Baños, one each for UP Manila, UP Visayas, and UP Cebu, and an off-site facility in Puerto Galera.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will be implementing the following construction projects:
UP Diliman
- The rehabilitation and modernization of Gonzales Hall University Library
- The construction of the University Health Service
- The renovation of dormitory buildings such as Molave Residences Hall, Yakal Residence Hall, and the Kamia Residence Hall
- The construction of the UP Diliman Multipurpose Hall
- The Faculty and Staff Housing
- The Faculty Center
- The construction of the UP Gymnasium
- Water-impounding lagoons
- The Resilience Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
- The building and renovation of public restrooms
UP Los Baños
- The construction of Agronomy, Soils, and Horticulture Building Crop Protection Wing
- The construction of Dormitory for Graduate Students
- The construction of World-Class Multimedia Production Building
Additionally, the DPWH will be undertaking the following construction and renovation works for other campuses:
- The Neuro Science Institute Building at UP Manila
- The renovation of the Undergraduate Studies Building at UP Cebu
- The construction of a 3.7-kilometer road network to the New Academic Core Zone at UP Visayas
- Phase 1 of construction of the off-campus Puerto Galera Biodiversity and Environmental Research and Outreach Center
Written by Jeremiah Capacillo
Announcement on UPCAT 2019
The UP Office of Admissions will be postponing the administration of the UPCAT 2019 nationwide.
This decision is based on consultation with UP System officials and weather experts on the latest forecast on Typhoon Ompong and its expected impact on Northern Luzon and Eastern Seaboard including Western Visayas, and in consideration of the nationwide scope of the exam that entails synchronized travel arrangements among others which pose undue risks to both UPCAT examinees and UPCAT personnel.
The Office will announce a new date as soon as possible and provide instructions to all examinees.
Source: https://www.up.edu.ph/index.php/announcement-on-upcat-2019/
Ex-acting DFA boss Manalo named ambassador to Germany
The Carillon issue (2019)
The July 2018-May 2019 issue of Carillon, the University’s official alumni magazine is finally here!
The new issue has UP Los Baños the Maria sa Banga landmark in its front cover and features such as Beta Epsilon’s 90th year celebration, UP Alumni excellence in the Arts, cover story of the volunteer service Ugnayan ng Pahinungod, and many more!
Diwata-2 microsatellite nears completion, handover to Jaxa
Filipino engineers in Japan’s Tohoku, Hokkaido, Kyushu universities up to the challenge
In case some still doubt that the Philippines has already sent its first eye in the sky into space, maybe a second microsatellite would make them believe it is so.
PHL ‘won’t be left out now’ in space program
‘WE [the Philippines] do not want to be left out…we want to build our space technology capability” in order for the country to benefit from it, Science Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña declared after Maya-1 cube satellite (CubeSat), the second Philippine satellite, was deployed from the International Space Station on the afternoon of August 10.
Physics professor bags top PCIEERD R&D award
(AUG. 3)—UP National Institute of Physics (NIP) professor Maricor N. Soriano, PhD, received the 2018 Outstanding R&D Awards for the Emerging Technology Category from Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD).
The award is open to all research and development (R&D) projects undertaken for the last three years by Filipino scientists, researchers and engineers from universities and colleges, R&D institutions, and private industries under DOST-PCIEERD’s sectoral concerns clustered into four categories: Industrial Technology, Energy, Utilities and Systems, Emerging Technology, and Special Concerns.
Soriano was awarded for her research project “Integration of ARRAS and CRAVAT Tools,” a DOST funded project under the program Coral Reef Assessment and Visualization-Advanced Tools or CRAVAT.
According to Soriano, CRAVAT is a two-year project (2014-2016) with the objective of developing coral reef monitoring tools that can go deeper, see wider, analyze higher-dimensional data, and process data faster. The CRAVAT program and its predecessor the Automated Rapid Reef Assessment System (ARRAS) are programs for local governments and environmental monitoring agencies for coral reef monitoring that are easy to acquire, use and maintain. To date, outputs of the CRAVAT and ARRAS projects are being used by 28 different agencies (local governments, schools and non-government organizations).
Soriano added that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources supplied additional funding to allow training of its regional officers in the use of these technologies. Soriano’s team has obtained videos and produced maps covering 2000 km of coral reefs out of the estimated 10,000 km of coastlines with reefs in the Philippines. The permanent visual records can be used as a baseline to monitor changes in the coastal marine resources.
Soriano and her team was awarded with a trophy and a cheque worth P300,000 during PCIEERD’s 8th anniversary celebration on June 29 at Novotel Manila, Araneta Center.
A Professor 7 at NIP, Soriano earned her PhD in Physics from UPD in 1997. Her research interest is in color, video and image processing. She has collaborated with marine scientists to create tools to visualize coral reefs, with museums to digitally preserve and analyze paintings, and with public health experts to create smartphone-based tools for microscopic diagnosis.
For her multidisciplinary work, she was recognized in 2006 as Outstanding Young Scientist in Applied Physics by the National Academy of Science and Technology-Philippines; one of nine Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service in 2013; and the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship by the UK government in 2015.
Source: https://upd.edu.ph/physics-professor-bags-top-pcieerd-rd-award/