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Nicanor Tiongson unveiled his latest book, Manong: The Life and Works of Gerardo De Leon, on October 8, 2025, at Red Carpet Cinema 3, Shangri-La Mall. The event, hosted by UP Press, highlighted the impact of National Artist for Film Gerry De Leon on Philippine cinema. A monumental moment for cinema and cultural memory unfolded […]

    During the 1384th meeting of the University of the Philippines (UP) Board of Regents (BOR) held at Quezon Hall, UP Diliman on October 26, 2023, the Board approved the appointment of the following UP System officials: Rolando B. Tolentino, appointed as Vice President for Public Affairs, effective September 1, 2023, to serve at […]

You can now grab your copies of your favorite books by UP’s best authors more easily as the University of the Philippines Press officially opened UPper Shelf, its first off-campus outlet, at the second floor of the UP Town Center. Located behind classic favorites Rodic’s and Chocolate Kiss, UPper Shelf hopes to bring UP’s top titles to a wider audience.

The Interdisciplinary Book Forum, made possible through a UP Emerging Inter-Disciplinary Research (EIDR) grant, is held every semester.

The book “Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th Century” by Ma. Mercedes Planta, PhD, presents “various medicinal plants that Filipino traditional medical practitioners or herbolarios have been prescribing since the precolonial period.” Through the book, the author invites readers to harness from the “usable past” the potentials of the knowledge and practices studied and recorded by the Spanish missionaries in the country during the 17th to the 19th century.