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.

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.

ILOILO, Philippines – Small Enterprises and Entrepreneurial Development Services Technology Business Incubator (SEEDS-TBI) conducted a series of Training Workshop on Comprehensive Entrepreneurial Process and Implementation at the University of the Philippines Visayas-Miagao and Iloilo City Campus, and in the municipalities of Pavia and Concepcion and Tinukib Jaro from June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019.

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.

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.

Amethyl Mardin Pernito, a BS Fisheries graduate of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences earned the distinction of graduating as the Class 2019 Valedictorian of UP Visayas. She earned the highest GWA of 1.277, magna cum laude, from among 800 plus graduates.

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.

The University of the Philippines Visayas, along with the Department of Health-Center for Development (DOH-CHD) 6 (Western Visayas), and Zuellig Family Foundation, held a colloquium ceremony of the Municipal Leadership and Governance Program (MLGP) Cycle 2 in Iloilo City On June 5, 2019. With the second cycle’s “Building Resilient Local Health Systems through Primary Health” as its theme, the program showcased their Local Government Units (LGUs) partner’s health challenges and leadership interventions to promote more resilient and responsive local health systems at the municipal level.

Paduhilao has always thought that his UP education did not just taught him academic excellence but it also gave him a weapon to face reality. His UP education is so important to him that it instilled endurance, strength, and integrity to survive life. “It taught me to be aware of my surroundings and eventually, strive for a life in service for the Filipino people as one of my core principles. UP education is not just a mere education to me. It became a fragment of my life that taught me honor before excellence, always.”