Four faculty members of the University of the Philippines Mindanao were issued appointments as UP Scientists for 2023-2025 under the UP Scientific Productivity System (SPS) during the 1393rd meeting of the Board of Regents on September 26, 2024.

Prof. May Anne Mata, PhD, from the College of Science and Mathematics, and Prof. Larry Digal, PhD, from the School of Management, were promoted to UP Scientist 3.

Assoc. Prof. Vladimer Kobayashi, PhD, from the College of Science and Mathematics, and Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Cagas, PhD, from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, issued appointments as UP Scientist 1. 

Prof. Cagas transferred from UP Diliman to UP Mindanao in August 2024.

The UP Scientific Productivity System (SPS ) was established by the Board of Regents in August 2005 to support the development of science and technology and to encourage and
reward scientific productivity in UP. Deserving scientists shall be given the rank "UP Scientist" for a period of three years with a monetary award, the UP Scientific Productivity Award.