Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Research & Creative Work Updates
ACRI study identifies financing and resource gaps hindering Universal Health Care implementation in the Philippines
A newly published study by researchers from the Ateneo Center for Research and Innovation (ACRI) and the University of the Philippines - Manila has found...
Building collaborative pathways: ACSENT host dialogue on the national housing crisis
On 21 January 2026, the Ateneo Center for Social Entrepreneurship (ACSEnt), in partnership with Social Enterprise Development Partnerships Inc (SEDPI), convened a consultation meeting on...
Filipino choral conductor Dr Raoul Carlo F Angangco clinches 3rd place for the American Prize in Choral Performance–Professional Division 2025
Dr Raoul Carlo F Angangco was honored by the American Prize’s national panel of judges for his exceptional leadership of the Conductors Chorus during his...
DOH—DPCB and ASOG hold public consultation on the National Tobacco Cessation Infrastructure Plan 2030
On 22 January 2026, the Department of Health — Disease Prevention & Control Bureau (DPCB), together with the Ateneo School of Government (ASOG) through the...
OAVP-RCWI hosted conversations to explore cross-disciplinary AI research
On 14 January 2026, the Office of the Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation (OAVP-RCWI) assembled an afternoon forum titled Conversations to...
[Ateneo Press Review Crew] The Essay Is Brechtian Theater in Martin Villanueva’s “A Pig Was Once Killed In Our Garage”
Pay attention to how Martin Villanueva writes an essay. In A Pig Was Once Killed In Our Garage , he points a finger at his...
Features, Analysis, and Opinion
14 Feb 2022
NEW FROM THE PRESS: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vicente L. Rafael
Framing Rodrigo Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Vicente Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism
11 Feb 2022
[Tinig] Feast Failure: Reflections on the Global Food System in the Time of the Pandemic
"In the end, the response to the food crisis should not be simply an issue of increased agricultural productivity."
08 Feb 2022
[Blueboard] Protecting the Overseas Filipino Right to Vote
"In choosing candidates who truly support the OFWs agenda, must be knowledgeable about the facts and realities of the life of the Filipino overseas to truly care about their plight"
21 Jan 2022
[Tinig] A Friend Told Me Not To Post My Political Opinions Online
"Educators must speak out loudly and boldly against people and structures that are unjust for them to show moral integrity."
Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
AVP for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Areté: Our Creativity and Innovation Hub
As the creativity and innovation hub of the Ateneo de Manila University, Areté provides the space and freedom for groups from different fields and persuasions to create, collaborate on, and share knowledge, skills, and practices.
Areté's complex features theaters, art galleries, studios, laboratories, a makerspace, teaching and meeting rooms, and several open areas. These facilities enable the University to host, support, and connect academics, artists, professionals, and leaders of different talents and interests whose exchanges, we hope, will spur the kind of creativity and innovation that creates unforeseen paths and betters our communities.
Areté is thus betting on the desire of a growing many, coming together to impart and to learn, to be inspired and to be challenged, to focus but still to wander in all that could be done as a collective concerned with what is possible.
Ateneo Art Gallery
Widely recognized today as the first museum of Philippine modern art, the Ateneo Art Gallery was established in 1960 through Fernando Zóbel’s bequest to the Ateneo of his collection of works by key Filipino post war artists.
