UP Mindanao faculty, REPS, and staff took the Microsoft 365 Training Workshop on October 4, 2024, as provided by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. The training is designed to maximize UP's subscription to Microsoft 365. The training was hosted by SoftwareOne, Microsoft Licensing Solution Provider, and covered the following topics:

Accessing MS Teams ● Get organized in your class team ● Start and pin chats ● Hide chats and mute messages ● Create a class team in Microsoft Teams ● Add a student to a class team ● Create an assignment ● Create group assignments or assign to individual students ● Grade, return, and reassign assignments ● Track student progress in the Grades tab ● Join a Teams meeting ● Manage meeting ● Show your screen during a meeting ● Show and hide channels ● Schedule chat message ● OneDrive ● Upload files and folders ● Create files and folders ● Delete and restore file-secondary recycle bin ● Share files and folders ● File on Demand ● SharePoint ● Create a team or communication site ● Explore your team site ● Add or remove a news post ● Create and share files in a library ● Sync SharePoint files and folders ● Restore a shared library ● Outlook Web & Desktop app ● Organize your inbox ● Create a signature and automatic reply ● Schedule an appointment or meeting ● Create and edit a contact ● Search for email, contacts, and events ● Schedule sends 

The training aligns with the UP Strategic Plan for Digital Transformation. 

The UP Mindanao volleyball team to the Inter-Agency Sportsfest

The Inter-Agency Sportsfest has moved to UP Mindanao, specifically at the Davao City-UP Sports Complex, beginning October 4, 2024. The volleyball games, composed of mixed male-female teams, opened the competitions in the venue. UP Mindanao won its first game over the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), 2-0. Volleyball and futsal games will be played during the week of October 7, and the finals will be on October 14, 2024.  

The UPMin Mobile Legends team in action

On October 1, 2024, the UPMin Mobile Legends team defeated DTI-XI in the final round and earned a third-place finish with a 3-2 win-loss record. 

Asst. Prof. Maynard Usares (left), CSM Building Administrator, with the team.	The team visits an electrical room at CSM

Chancellor Murao issued OC-Administrative Order –LAEM 2024 – 145 – v00, dated 23 September 2024, constituting the Building Safety and Hazard Assessment Committee. The committee is tasked with conducting a building safety and hazard assessment of all academic, administrative, student, and faculty housing buildings on the campus.

 The committee comprises personnel from the Physical Plant and Campus Planning offices, namely Engr. Cesar Estocado as chairperson, with Ar. Jean Marie Juanga, Ar. Oliver Telmo, Ar. Tricia Sardinia-Peek, Engr. Isaac Muncada, and Engr. Edmund Gemelo, and Engr. Rodel Reponte.

Engineers Muncada and Estocado inspect washing facilities	The team inspects an electrical hub

The chancellor's administrative order is consistent with UP President Jimenez's Memorandum No. PAJ 24-23, dated 16 September 2024, directing the chancellors, the UP Tacloban dean, and the PGH director to conduct a comprehensive building safety and hazard assessment in their respective units.

The committee scheduled its inspection for the first and second weeks of October 2024, and submit its report by 30 October 2024.

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.