The Balay Kalagday, under the University of the Philippines Visayas’ (UPV) Animal Care Program through the Ugnayan ng Pahinungod/Oblation Corps (UP/OC), in partnership with the Office of the Chancellor, was launched on Aug. 4, as part of the activities for the UPV and Miagao local government unit (LGU) Friendship Celebration. 

The sprawling 1,200 hectare campus of UP Visayas in Miagao is a nature lovers’ haven, filled with a wide variety of endemic fauna and flora found along its undulating hills and plains with pockets of lush vegetations and mini forests. Many of the trees in the Miagao campus were planted by UPV faculty, staff, and students still based in the city campus in the mid-80s as well as the pioneers who braved living in Miagao when the campus opened in 1989. 

Chancellor Clement Camposano and former Vice Chancellor for Administration and Professor Mary Ann Gumban of the College of Management, the two nominees for the next Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), presented their respective vision/mission papers on August 7, 2023, at the Pidlaoan Hall, Miagao campus. 

What started as a weeklong celebration for the UP Visayas and the Miagao LGU dubbed as Friendship Week, which started on August 1, 2023, ended with a high note during the closing program in the afternoon of August 4, 2023. 

Favored by a crisp, clear morning after days of rain, UP Visayas and Miagao LGU officials and personnel, along with friends, gathered on the open space by the side of the new School of Technology building on August 4, 2023 for the Eco-Trail Walk, an event of the UPV & Miagao Friendship Week Celebration which started on August 1, 2023. 

The Philippine Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Visayas Chapter (PSBMB-VC), in collaboration with the Institute of Fish Processing Technology, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS-IFPT), is conducting a hands-on training on microbiological techniques for teachers from August 2-4, 2023.