Barangay health workers and health professionals in Negros Occidental attended the Training of Trainers on the use of Noncommunicable (NCD) diseases flipchart. Forty-five (45) BHWs and health professionals from the various cities and municipalities participated in what can be considered as the first opportunity for them to immerse and formally learn how to use the NCD flipchart effectively in the roll-out the NCD training in the other parts of the Negros Occidental province.
The Center for West Visayan Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences, through its University Research Associates Darlene Joy Calsado and Sashah Dioso, participated in the 8th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF8) on November 21-23, 2022, at Kochi, Kerala, India.
The Department of Education (DepEd) – Antique, University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), Antique Provincial Government, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), in coordination with the then-Office of Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, launched the book “Dunâ, Kinaíya Kag Paranúbliùn,” A Cultural Inventory of the Province of Antique, at the Old Capitol Building in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique on Nov. 25.
The University of the Philippines Visayas participated in the 14th Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats General Assembly on November 12 to 13 at the Iloilo Convention Center.
On November 23, 2022, UPV Literati, in collaboration with the UPV Language program, conducted the Artist Talk and Mini-Workshop 2022 at the GCEB AVR of the University of the Philippines Visayas Iloilo City campus. The two-hour event was facilitated by one of the foremost creative nonfictionists in the Philippines, Professor Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin, who gave a lecture to over 50 participants on writing creative nonfiction, particularly, Malikhaing Sanaysay, a form similar to creative nonfiction but with its own nuances and localized aesthetics.
The School of Technology, with its Bachelor of Science in Food Technology Program, receives its Certificate of Compliance from Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) for the full compliance of the program to the requirements of the Republic Act No. 11052, an act regulating the practice of Food Technology in the Philippines.
