Living in Los Banos

Refresher course for Forestry Graduates Offered by College of Forestry and Natural Resources, UPLB Fee per person: P3,500 Schedule: May 9-29, 2012 Venue: Training Center for Tropical Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability (TREES), College of Forestry and Natural Resources, UP Los Baños, College Laguna Deadline of application: April 27, 2012 For details, please contact: Telephone No: (049) 536-2736; 536-2639 Email: trees@uplb.edu.ph; trees_uplbcfnr@yahoo.com

Awit ng Kolehiyo Kolehiyo ng Paggugubat at Likas Yaman , UP Los Baños Ating Naririnig, masisiglang tinig Awitin ng Makiling at dalubhasaan natin Dito’y nabubuklod, upang itaguyod Araling gubat, samahang tapat Lahat sa baya’y maglingkod O ang kagubatan, ating likas yaman Luntiang kabundukan, alay sa kinabukasan Tinig ipaalam, tungkul’y gampanan Gubat mahalin at pagyamanin Patungo sa kaunlaran

1st KAPALIGIRUN Green Run for the Makiling Forest UP Los Banos, College, Laguna October 8, 2011 3K, 5K, 10K, 21K Registration Fees: P500 for 3K and 5K P600 for 10K P800 for 21K Inquire at the registration sites for group discounts Cash prizes and medals will be awarded to the top three winners of each category. Medals will be given to the finishers of 21K. Register at: UPLB Alumni Association MADECOR Shapers Family Shop

What’s the difference between dropping a course with evaluation and without evaluation in UPLB? Nothing. The pass or fail evaluation is just for internal records purposes. You’ll still get a “DRP” mark in your class card, final grades, TCG, and transcript even if you dropped a course during the period of “Dropping of Subjects with ‘Pass’ or ‘Fail’ Evaluation of Student Performance.” If your class standing is failing, and you applied for dropping after the “Last Day for Dropping of Subjects without Evaluation of Student Performance,” your official grade is still “DRP”. Source: experience / cso

POSITION PA PER ON THE RH BILL by individual faculty, students and alumni of the University of the Philippines* As faculty members, students and alumni of the University of the Philippines, we state here the bases of our objection to the consolidated Reproductive Health bill that is pending in Congress. Given the secular background of UP education, we put forward arguments from reason, to wit: 1.  Population is not an obstacle to development . The bills assume that a nation’s population hinders its development that is why they push for the promotion of a two-child policy, massive distribution of contraceptives, sex education (to acquaint young people with contraception), and sterilization, all of which make use of taxpayers’ money.  However, as early as 1966, Nobel Prize winner Simon Kuznets’ research has shown that  there is insignificant empirical association between population growth rates and output per capita (economic growth) . Rath...

3D Building Map of UP Los Baños (c) Lawrence Ramos, 2011

UP Los Banos Academic Calendar 2011-2012 Click on Photo to enlarge