UP Visayas College of Arts and Sciences participated in the World Conference on Child And Youth (CCY) 2019 held last 05th – 06th July at Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka. This conference is under the theme “Well-being and Life Chances of Children and Youth in an Interconnected World: A Life Course Approach”.

Continuing in its advocacy to promote good health and proper nutrition at the grassroots, the UP Visayas Community Outreach Program (COP), through its Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement, held a health and nutrition forum on July 31, 2019 at the UPV Iloilo City campus.

“The little learning you have in this SIP (science immersion program) will be useful in your future. Apply whatever experiences you had from UPV in your research and in your classroom. I wish to see you all in the science program in UPV or in any UP campuses and become contributors to science in the country,” National Academy of Science and Technology Outstanding Young Scientist awardee Prof. Nathaniel C. Añasco told the students of the country’s premier science high school at the culminating activity of their 14-day immersion at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS), UP Visayas (UPV), Miagao campus on July 22, 2019.

“We will not forget the experiences we had here. We will make use of them when we go back to Japan,” said Sugiyama Daisuke speaking in behalf of his peers at the closing program of the Training on Advances in Tropical Fisheries on July 11, 2019 at the Graduate and Continuing Education Building, UP Visayas (UPV), Iloilo City campus.

More or less 50 Grade V elementary school learners understood the importance of marine coastal ecosystems and the detrimental effects of illegal fishing.

Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, this is how Dr. Winston Conrad Padojinog aptly describes the world that we live in and urged his audience to tolerate and thrive in such a world.