Member organizations and institutions of the Ugsad Regional Gender Resource Center signed a partnership agreement as the highlight of its 20th year anniversary at the Casa Real de Iloilo on July 26, 2019.
UP Visayas will formally unveil the newly-restored UPV Main Building after the turn-over ceremony from the National Historical Commission on Friday, August 16, 2019 at the Iloilo City campus.
UP Visayas is now offering the MS Food Science starting this 1st semester, academic year 2019-2020. This new program is being hosted by the School of Technology.
Mr. Joshua M. Regalado, faculty member of the Institute of Fisheries Policy and Development Studies (IFPDS), College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS), UP Visayas (UPV) together with research assistant Kristelle C. Beniga, shared the results of their studies to the local community of Miagao on July 29, 2019 at the town’s OMA Training Center. The municipality of Miagao is a coastal municipality located 40 kilometers south of Iloilo City.
As part of the efforts to better address male needs in the university and also to further encourage UPV male employees to be involved in GAD mainstreaming, the UPV Gender and Development Program organized “Paghangop, Pagbaton kag Paghulag: A Forum on Gender, Men’s Concerns and Anxieties” was held at the MILC, CAS, UPV Miagao campus on July 24, 2019. The forum was participated in by seventy (70) UPV male employees coming from different units and colleges in both Iloilo City and Miagao campuses.
In compliance with Republic Act No. 10028, also known as the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009, the UPV Gender and Development Program facilitated the launching of the lactation station located at the ground floor of the GDP building at the UPV Iloilo City campus last July 22, 2019.