The Department of Education – Region VI and the UP Visayas Center for West Visayan Studies conducted the Webinar Workshop on Balik Kasaysayan: Historical Trail through Zoom on October 5-7, 2022.

UP Visayas hosted the Visayas Focus Group Discussion of the Pandemic Response Playbook Project, which is being put together by the UP Manila Health Policy Development Hub (HPDH) Team of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

For a successful aquaculture business, feed supplements are essential to increase the productivity of farmed aquatic species which will redound to increased economic gains for fish farmers. 

• SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Dr. Philip Ian Padilla, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, along with UPV lecturer Prof. Alexander Porras, served as retreat masters for 18 LGUs under the DOH6-UPV partnership’s Municipal Leadership and Governance Program (MLGP) at Damires Hills, Janiuay, Iloilo from 3-6 Oct 2022. The initiative is in preparation for the MLGP Colloquium on 14 October 2022.

The University of the Philippines Visayas signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the City of Iloilo, to provide technical assistance for the institutionalization of the Iloilo City MICE Center (ICMC) and to assist ICMC in the recalibration of the MICE (Meetings, Incentive Travels, Conferences/ Conventions, Exhibitions/Events) work plan. 

Economic experts shared information on the current economy as well as long-term plans of the regions in the Visayas under the “new normal” during the PES Visayas Forum 2022 conducted by the Philippine Economic Society (PES), University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), and partner universities last Sept. 30.

• SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Sixty school-based nurses participated in the training co-organized by the Department of Education Province of Iloilo and the COP-BIDANI of the College of Arts and Sciences. The training that was held on October 5-7, 2022, at J7 Plaza Hotel Mandurriao, Iloilo City, focused on Personality Development and Leadership Enhancement on the Implementation and Delivery of School-based Health Services for SY 2022- 2023. 

A total of five hundred twenty-seven library materials amounting to more or less one hundred fifty-nine thousand nine hundred twenty-one pesos were donated to UP Visayas University Library by the Rivera couple.

Dr. Vivian Azucena-Topor of the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Chemistry Education - Tertiary Level from the Philippine Federation of Chemistry Societies (PFCS) on Oct. 1, 2022.