The “Sandigan, Sandalan: Training and Advocacy programs for Mental Health” for the second batch of mental health advocates for UP students has been scheduled for April.
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Mental health advocates play critical roles in responding to the mental health needs of UP students. To create a network of MH advocates, UP is launching the Sandigan, Sandalan: Training and Advocacy programs for Mental Health for the first batch of MH focal persons on Monday, 8 March 2021.
Filipino health frontliners have been hailed as heroes during this pandemic, but will they ever be given just compensation for their service? Dagdag suweldo for the frontliners will be discussed in a UP “Stop COVID Deaths” webinar set on Friday, March 5, 12:00 noon.
The University of the Philippines would like to invite you to join the fight for Academic Freedom in the Sciences and Evidence-Based Scholarship for Nation-Building!
Featuring UP alumni from all sectors and spheres of society with voices from other universities to reflect on academic freedom as an integral element for an environment that nurtures excellence, innovation, and altruism.
Our boys finally did it. But the biggest battle has just begun.
Findings of the 14 Deaths with Prior Dengvaxia® Vaccination by the DOH-Commissioned Independent Evaluation Team of Physicians, the Philippine General Hospital Dengue Investigative Task Force (PGH DITF): An Interim Report
The University of the Philippines is mobilizing its resources to respond to the destruction caused by the ongoing eruption of Mayon Volcano in Albay.
Maria Margarita R. Lavides, an alumna of the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), bagged the Best Paper Award during the First International Conference on Multidisciplinary Filipino Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Hilo on 27-28 October 2017.
Marine mammals—such as whales, dolphins, dugongs—are descended from ancestors that lived entirely on land. Fleeing from terrestrial competition, they turned to the waters and the vast resources of its depths. The Philippines is rife with marine mammals, a fact confirmed by stranding incidences—more than 800 recorded since 2005—exceeding the normal numbers in the region.
This giant which lived inside long crusty tubes under the sea had eluded scientists for a very long time, earning the title of “Loch Ness Monster of mollusks” in a New Yorker scientific feature. Little was known of the shipworm with the scientific name Kuphus polythalamia. All modern-day scientists had were the empty skeletal pipes turning up in different parts of the world, and pre-War specimens that had turned into mush.
