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.

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. 

Three undergraduate research papers from the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) won in the first Young Scientists’ Forum (YSF) at the third Philippine Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Visayas Chapter (PSBMB-VC) regional symposium held online last July 20, 2022.

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.

The UP Visayas Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts hosted a violin and piano concert at the UPV Performing Arts Hall at the Iloilo City Campus on July 26, 2022.