“We hope to make you realize that there is a future in fisheries, the mariculture industry, with the vast marine biodiversity in our territorial and archipelagic waters,” says Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr., commencement speaker of the 40th Commencement Exercise of UP Visayas.

Medical doctors from West Visayas State University College of Medicine (WVSU CM) and Iloilo Doctor’s Group (consisting of Iloilo Doctors’ Hospital, Iloilo Doctors’ College and Iloilo Doctors’ College of Medicine, Inc.) participated in the Genomics in Health Writeshop last June 24-25, 2019 at the AVR, GCEB, University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo City.

The Philippine Genome Center Visayas Satellite Facility (PGC VSF) sends 11 participants for the Nucleic Acid Extraction and Basic Library Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing on June 17-21, 2019 at the Philippine Genome Center, National Science Complex, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City.

Twenty-one institutions across the Philippines were represented in the gathering dubbed as “Forging Partnerships with Philippine Genome Center Visayas State Facility (PGC VSF)” held on June 14, 2019 at the Training Rooms 1 and 2, GCEB, UP Visayas, Iloilo City.

Forty eight faculty members from UP Visayas will receive their monetary grants for their professorial chair awards and faculty grant awards starting this month of July 2019.

The Clovers, composed of students alumni from the Division of Biological Sciences of UP Visayas, gathered at Breakthrough Restaurant in Iloilo City on June 29, 2019 to honor their professor and former Chancellor Minda Formacion.