The Philippine Space Agency aims to launch into space the country’s biggest commercial-grade satellite dubbed MULA by 2023, with help from UP and DOST-ASTI.
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A former UPV student is valedictorian of the Philippine Military Academy’s “Masaligan” Class of 2021, together with two other former UP students who rank among the top ten PMA graduates this year.
From creating COVID-19 test kits to genomic epidemiology, the Philippine Genome Center looks back at past year in its OnePGC virtual conference.
The inauguration of the new Philippine Genome Center Visayas, which will pursue research for fisheries and aquatics, agriculture and medicine, is “UP Visayas at its best”, according to UPV Chancellor Camposano.
The first two batches of Filipino satellite builders met virtually with the pioneering 2019 class of Space Science and Technology Proliferation through University Partnerships (STeP-UP) scholars welcoming their successors in a kick-off ceremony over Zoom.
UP Manila leads constituent universities in establishing their own research ethics boards to harmonize research protocols and ensure ethical–including data privacy–compliance of all university research.
At the reception hosted by University of the Philippines President Danilo L. Concepcion, together with officials of the UP Diliman College of Engineering (CoE) and the UP Engineering Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (UPERDFI), alumni of the CoE who donated professorial chairs and new books to support the nation’s future engineers expressed their commitment and gratitude to the University. The donors received Sundial Plaques as tokens of appreciation from UP. The event was held at the UP Board of Regents Room in Quezon Hall, UP Diliman, Quezon City on October 22, 2019.
A professional researcher and undergraduate students of the University of the Philippines Mindanao received top awards during the 9th Health Research and Development Expo competitions organized by the Regional Health Research and Development Consortium-XI held on 3-4 October 2019 in Davao City.
Three years after its establishment, the UP Resilience Institute has finally broken ground for the construction of its own building.
While news of giant clam poaching in the disputed Scarborough Shoal drew massive online outrage, it is far from the first wildlife exploitation story in our history. One serious challenge for local law enforcement in these cases has always been visually confirming the presence of our endemic species when specimens have been skinned, ground or similarly processed for the black market.
Luckily a team led by the UP Institute of Biology’s Ian Kendrich Fontanilla and the late Dean Perry Ong have locally pioneered a system called DNA barcoding, which utilizes the molecular fingerprint of genes to assist both scholarship and law enforcement in these tricky cases.
