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“In our highly stratified society, education alone offers to the ordinary individual a path to social mobility. But access to this path is very much determined by a family’s level of income.  The smallest differences in the economic capacity of students often spell the greatest differences in opportunity later in life.”

“More of these figures are expected to be seen in the University of the Philippines Sculpture Garden. In celebration of Arts Month, a group called Plot has launched a proposal for works/works-in-progress on February 28 at the UP Sculpture Garden.”

“Filipinos ‘talk in a rich mix of American, Spanish, and Malay influences’”

“Purugganan is considered a leader in the field of ecological genomics. His work focuses on identifying the molecular basis for evolutionary adaptations that occur in nature.”

“He’s a medical anthropologist, a veterinarian, a social scientist, the dean of the University of the Philippines’ College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, and an Inquirer columnist. “

“The NSCB, in a new report citing a Graduate Tracer Study made by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), said graduates of the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, and De La Salle University have a significant head start in their careers compared to graduates of other colleges and universities nationwide.”

“On the wings of such an inspiraitonal story, Change.org’s founder Ben Rattray left this timely message at TedxManila in UP Diliman on Friday, reminding the intimate audience that small but well-defined aims can have a huge impact:”

“Salazar served as Member of the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Vice Chair and Managing Head of the Board of Investments (BOI), Undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Director of the University of the Philippines (UP) Institute for Small Scale Industries, and Associate Professor of the UP College of Business Administration. “

“An accomplished academic and a longtime peace advocate, Ferrer was the director of the UP Third World Studies Center from 2000 to 2003 and a convenor of the Program on Peace, Democratization, and Human Rights of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies until 2005 before joining the peace panel in 2010. “

“A 32-year-old institution sitting in the heart of UPLB’s 77-hectare Agricultural and Life Sciences Complex, BIOTECH promotes the use of biotechnology in agriculture. It also takes pride in keeping the largest depository of microorganisms in the Southeast Asian region.”

“According to Dr. Enrico C. Paringit, Program Leader of the University of the Philippines’ (UP) Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation (DREAM) program, Google Earth and Google Maps lack 3D coordinate. “It has a few 3D maps but only for select cities, like New York in the US,” he notes.”

“Allan C Liguan of the University of the Philippines won the Excellence Award in the Student Engineering category for the Design of an Energy Efficient Engineering University Complex Utilising Thermal Energy Storage A/C System project, while Madhur Goyal of the Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, India, won the Excellence Award in the Architecture category for the Green & Sustainable School project.”

“Aragones, in turn, approached several scientists in University of the Philippines (UP) with varying expertise, from hydrology to social sciences and economics, and set out to help in the clean-up and rehabilitation efforts.”

“Smart Communications, Inc. has joined a multi-sector partnership led by University of the Philippines Vanguard, Inc. (UVI) that will help build an environment-friendly camp within the UP Visayas campus in Miagao, Iloilo. The UVI is the organization of UP ROTC officials and alumni.”