This April 24, we celebrate Cordillera Day. The commemoration of this day began in 1980, when the military killed tribal chieftain Macli-ing Dulag of the Butbut tribe and injured Pedro Dungoc, another leader of the Kalinga and Bontok peoples, over their opposition to the Chico River Basin Hydroelectric Dam Project (CRBHDP). Until 1984, April […]
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In commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution, the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (¶¶Òõ̽̽D OICA), with the support of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ President’s Committee on Culture and the Arts and the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP), mounted the […]
Just four days after the May 9, 2022 National and Local Elections, Tesk.ph released its report on how bogus vote tallies and supposed disqualification of some candidates proliferated online during election day. The Tsek.ph report said fake news proliferated “overwhelmingly on Facebook, and occasionally on Twitter and YouTube, mostly by Marcos supporters, including […]
On October 30, 2023, the Philippines held what is arguably the most impactful elections in the country: the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). The 2023 elections decided the leaders and council members for the smallest unit of government and the primary implementer of government policies at the grassroots level: the barangay. After the […]
Four tennis courts and a clubhouse were inaugurated on February 9, 2023 on Ylanan Street, ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Diliman, the newest additions to the rising ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Diliman Sports Complex. Members of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ tennis varsity teams, the main beneficiaries of the construction project, witnessed the ribbon cutting and unveiling of the marker, which were led by […]
¶¶Òõ̽̽ is currently reviewing the indicators and data from the THE’s latest WUR to gain insights for the University’s future measures and directions. This latest ranking of ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s standing among universities worldwide will serve as valuable insight in determining ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s way forward in its mission to serve the nation, through the delivery of the […]
The ¶¶Òõ̽̽ will allow 100% face-to-face classes in all its undergraduate courses in the second semester of the current academic year, AY 2022-2023. This is complementary to the university’s adoption of hybrid and blended learning to equip students for the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and achieve educational resilience in […]
On September 21, 1972, President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081 declaring martial law over the entire country, supposedly responding to the rising “communist threat” at the time. This year marks the 50th anniversary of this declaration that led to a decades-long period in Philippine history remembered for its authoritarian rule, a record of […]
The Board of Regents (BOR) of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ (¶¶Òõ̽̽) has opened nominations for the next ¶¶Òõ̽̽ President to succeed President Danilo L. Concepcion, whose term will end on February 09, 2023. This is according to a memorandum released by the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Office of the Secretary of the University and the BOR on […]
They might not get as much attention as the Amazon Rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef, but the mountains of the Philippines are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Inch for inch, these misty cloud forests are home to more unique species of mammals per square mile than anywhere else on Earth. […]