The UAAP Season 84 Men’s Basketball Champions, the UP Fighting Maroons, brought their on and off the court prowess to the Province and City of Iloilo for the 4th straight year, displaying their championship stature on July 29 – August 1, 2022.

Prof. John Ray A. Hontanar from the Division of Humanities is the newly appointed faculty-in-charge of the UPV Language Program as of August 1, 2022.

The University of the Philippines Visayas hosted one of the parallel sessions of the recently concluded ENERCON 2022: The 3rd International Conference on Energy and Environmental Economics. Organized by the Department of Economics in UPLB, this year’s conference focused on “Harnessing Sustainable Energy and Ensuring Resilient Environments Toward Economic Recovery.” The event was held via Zoom on 28-29 July 2022. 

The College of Management, UP Visayas, conducted a Research Webinar-Workshop Series virtually via Zoom last June 23, 2022. The two-part webinar series with the theme “Strengthening Competencies & Discovering Opportunities in Research” focused on literature review and was attended by members of the faculty and staff of the College.

The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Visayas detected the Philippines’ first two cases of Omicron BA.2.75, a subvariant with the potential to spread rapidly.

The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UP Visayas (UPV-CFOS) conducted a two-day training-workshop on writing/developing Science and policy briefs for mollusk projects last July 25-26, 2022.

Dr. Rowena Paz Gelvezon was recently appointed as the Dean of the Graduate School of UP Visayas during the 1372nd Meeting of the UP Board of Regents held on July 28, 2022.

The Roxas City Aquaculture Association (RACA), Province of Capiz, lauded the livelihood support initiative of the Institute of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS-IA), UP Visayas (UPV). 

University of the Philippines (UP) President Danilo L. Concepcion reminded this year’s graduates from UP Visayas Tacloban College to remember and put into practice what the Oblation statue, popularly known as “Oble,” stands for.