The Caraga State University accorded Chancellor Larry Digal and UP Mindanao with an Honorable Antonio Rosales Tupaz (HART) Award for Development Partner in a simultaneous live and online ceremony on 18 May 2021. The award was given in recognition of the collaboration between UP Mindanao and CARSU in the Phil-LiDAR, Geo-SAFER Mindanao, and other projects. The HART Award, that was was launched on the same occasion, is named in honor of the late assemblyman who was responsible for the conversion of the Northern Mindanao Agricultural College, to the Northern Mindanao State Institute of Science and Technology, now known as Caraga State University.