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Tag: #UPFightsCOVID-19

UP webinar to tackle medical teaching, simulation in new normal

October 27, 2022 by Deina Blancaflor

  The COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone to consider other ways of gaining knowledge and acquiring skills, especially in medicine. While many things came to a halt in the ‘new normal,’ health faculties continuously tried to find innovative ways to prepare the next generation of doctors, nurses, and other medical practitioners. These past two years have […]

Yani the EndCovbot has unlocked a new skill!

May 12, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

If you’re looking for the latest COVID-19 statistics in your municipality, city, province, region, or for the whole Philippines, 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 a𝘀𝗸 𝗬𝗮𝗻𝗶 the EndCovBot on Messenger: 𝗺.𝗺𝗲/𝗬𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗕𝗼𝘁

UPD-NIMBB trains med-techs for COVID-19 detection

UPD-NIMBB trains med-techs for COVID-19 detection

May 8, 2020 by Jo. Florendo B. Lontoc

The UPD-NIMBB makes good on a proposal to train medical technicians unable to attend Department of Health-Research Institute for Tropical Medicine workshops for COVID-19 detection.

UPD chemists produce sanitizers

April 24, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

Like other UP campuses with chemists and chemistry laboratories, UP Diliman has been producing alcohol sanitizers—the demand for which has significantly increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

UPD department offers free counseling in a time of physical distancing

UPD department offers free counseling in a time of physical distancing

April 23, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

UP Diliman psychologists provide free psychological support and a listening ear long-distance to people severely affected by COVID-19.

UP united: How the state university is raising head and heart against COVID-19

UP united: How the state university is raising head and heart against COVID-19

April 23, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

UP remains one of the main institutions at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19. Read about how a university community is harnessing utak, puso and diwa against a global pandemic.

URUGUP

URUGUP: UPV Tacloban’s call for cooperation amid COVID-19 crisis

April 23, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

In a time of crisis, allies are called upon for assistance. This is what UP Visayas Tacloban College is doing through URUGUP to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is asking people to be its partner, its kaugop, in bringing help to those in need.

UP-PGH HOTLINE 155-200

April 22, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

TUMAWAG sa 155-200 para sa mga katanungan at pag-aalala ukol sa COVID-19 at iba pang karamdaman.

UP Diliman’s bulletin on stranded construction workers on campus

April 22, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

  UPD-Bulletin-2020-17 May mga kumakalat na balita ngayon sa social media tungkol sa grupo ng mga stranded na construction worker sa loob ng kampus ng UPD na diumano ay napilitan nang kumain ng mga ligaw na hayop at prutas mula sa mga puno sa kampus dahil sa labis na pagkagutom. Direktang kinausap ng Office of […]

UPLB publishes free-to-download children’s ebooks on COVID-19 prevention and control measures

April 21, 2020 by UP System Media and Communication Office

Parents looking for ways to explain COVID-19 prevention and control measures to their children have help in these illustrated, free-to-download children’s ebooks published by the UPLB Department of Human and Family Development Studies.

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1915

UP would continue expanding under Villamor’s watch, with the Conservatory of Music; the University High School; the College of Education; and, the Junior College in Cebu City added under his watch

1909

The School of Fine Arts (1909), the College of Liberal Arts (1909), the College of Veterinary Medicine (1910), the College of Engineering (1910), the College of Agriculture (1906, in Los Baños, Laguna) follow to form the initial core of the newly established UP.

1905

The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.

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