Thirty-six UP High School in Iloilo (UPHSI) Senior High School students from the STEM strand and five members of the UPHSI faculty have been identified as participants in the Shell NXplorers Workshop, scheduled from 22-24 November 2023 at the UPV GCEB Training Rooms. Seventeen students are from Grade 11 STEM, while 19 are from the Grade 12 STEM class.

UP Visayas (UPV) and Xiamen University (XMU), China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote mutual academic cooperation and exchanges between the two higher education institutions.

Prof. Maria Elisa Baliao, a faculty member of the Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), is the new Director of the Office of Alumni Relations (OAR), University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV).

Four faculty members from the University of the Philippines Visayas completed the External Quality Assurance Reviewers Training from 13-17 November 2023 at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

As part of its calendar of activities for 2023, the UPV Healthy Lifestyle and Wellness Committee organized a “Lecture-demonstration on Strength Training” on November 15, 2023 at the UPV Covered Court, Miagao campus.

ArtisanRise, a pioneering initiative aimed at promoting and empowering local artisan communities, marked its official launch with ArtisanKnows, a two-day capacity-building training program held at the University of the Philippines Visayas last October 14-15, 2023. Participants from three high schools in Iloilo City – Iloilo National High School, Ramon Avanceña National High School, and West Visayas State University - Integrated Laboratory School, participated in the training.

The UP Visayas College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (UPV-CFOS) participated in the China-ASEAN seaweed cooperation forum held on November 11-13, 2023 at Xiamen City, Fujian, China.

In a remarkable display of excellence and commitment, the UPV Statistical Society of the University of the Philippines Visayas was honored for the second time with the highly distinguished recognition "Best 34th NSM Agency" award at the 34th National Statistics Month Closing and Awarding Ceremony held at RDC Hall, NEDA Region VI, Iloilo City last October 26.

The “Palarong pang Empleyado,” dubbed as “the friendly games” for University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) employees got a reboot on November 9, 2023 through the partnership of the All UP Workers Union, the All UP Academic Employees Union, and the UPV Healthy Lifestyle and Wellness Committee.