The University of the Philippines (UP) on Wednesday, Feb. 10, warned of random phishing e-mails that might appear legitimate as they use the Google logo.
"Please be informed that there have been reports of phishing attempts posing as password reset links from Google Workspace," UP said in an
Published February 10, 2021 4:54pm Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the most-awaited UP campus fairs have been naturally put on hold. If you re an alumni and you re starting to miss campus events such as the UP Diliman Fair, the UP Los Baños Feb Fair, the UP Manila Fiesta, the UP Cebu Cookout, the UP Tacloban Orgs Fair, the Tatak UPMin of UP Mindanao, among others, then here s something you shouldn t miss. The University of the Philippines announced on their Facebook page on Wednesday that there will be an all-campuses-in-one fiesta virtual alumni gathering called Isang Libong Alumni Para kay Oblé, Isang Libong Kumustahan.
Lawmakers say universities should be military-free zones
Philippines lawmakers have said that the protection of the University of the Philippines from military and police operations on campus should be enshrined in law and that this protection should be extended to all the country’s public universities and colleges.
A raft of bills to that effect has been tabled by opposition politicians in the country’s parliament in recent weeks.
Philippines congresswoman Sarah Elago this week tabled a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to ensure that schools and universities in the country are ‘zones of peace’ that are “free from police and military presence, intervention, harassment and intimidation”.
February 9, 2021
Joel Gonzalez, lauded as a âvery creative thinker,â wins a 2020 Amy J. Blue Award
Joel Gonzalez, a media technician in Event Services, will receive an Amy J. Blue Award on Feb. 11. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
By Kathleen J. Sullivan
As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of the Philippines in the early 1980s, Joel Gonzalez thought he might one day become a doctor.
Joel Gonzalez (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)
But a summer class in a style of documentary filmmaking known as âcinema directâ helped set him on a completely different career path, one that would eventually include producing television documentaries focused on poverty and rebellion in the Philippines.
By LUCKY MAE F. QUILAO
Published February 10, 2021 3:53pm A former student of the University of the Philippines-Visayas who is now based in Australia would still recommend studying at the school in face of the negative image it has been portrayed recently by security forces. “I will still proudly recommend the UP System and its mode of education to others. I will never see the human individual, the society, and the whole world this way had it not been for the UP education and the extra-curricular activities it has offered,” shared Gereon Ardivilla, a 49-year-old Filipino-English language translator and interpreter at the South Australian Department of Human Services.