Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Research & Creative Work Updates
Ateneo School of Government releases new working paper on Philippine Democracy
In September 2025, the Ateneo School of Government (ASOG), through the Ateneo Policy Center (APC), released a new working paper titled Philippine Observatory on Democracy...
Ateneo, Xavier University (XU) professors document stories of resilience
As floods and other disasters continue to disrupt communities across the Philippines, two professors from Ateneo de Manila University and Xavier University–Ateneo de Cagayan (XU)...
Ateneo Math faculty members win young scientist awards from International Union of Crystallography
Kurt Anthony de los Santos and Jim Ralphealo Mijares, instructors in the Ateneo de Manila University Department of Mathematics, were named as two of the...
BluBLOC varsity shines in 24th Philippine Robotics Olympiad, qualifies for world stage
Ateneo de Manila’s Junior High School-Senior High School (AJHS-ASHS) BluBLOC Varsity Team recently concluded a successful debut at the 24th Philippine Robotics Olympiad (PRO). The...
Ateneo Blue Nest startups win national champion and first runner-up at Shell LiveWIRE 2025
Two startups from the Ateneo Intellectual Property Office (AIPO) incubation program Blue Nest achieved top honors at the Shell LiveWIRE 2025 National Competition, held in...
Dr Rene Claveria awarded the PRC 2025 Outstanding Professional of the Year in Geology and the 2025 PFPA Distinction Award for Applied Research and Development
Dr Rene Juna R Claveria, assistant professor from the Department of Environmental Science, was recognized for his outstanding work in the field of Geology. Dr...
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.
