Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Research & Creative Work Updates
University Research Council (Memo U2526-015)
(Memo #U2526-015) I am pleased to announce a new appointment in the University Research Council (URC) membership:
Grade 11 - STEM students receive 2025 ASCEND Excellence Award
This year’s ASCEND Excellence Award for Senior High School Research was awarded to a group of Grade 11 - STEM students composed of Raymond Joseph...
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee explores "Asia as a Method" at Kritika Kultura Lecture Series
On 11 July 2025, Kritika Kultura, in partnership with Ateneo de Manila's Literary and Cultural Studies Program (LCSP) and PLUME, hosted a lecture by Alex...
Renewal of the University’s Registration Information with the National Privacy Commission’s Registration System (NPCRS) (Memo U2526-014)
(Memo U2526-014) Each University office—including institutes, centers, laboratories, etc.—is once again asked to complete the prescribed DPS registration form (see attached) if it has established, introduced, or deployed any new DPS, or if there are any updates or changes (e.g., modification or termination) to its previous submissions. Refer to the appendices for guidance
AIS bridges climate change education through interactive workshop
Last 08 July 2025, the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability (AIS) hosted a three-hour workshop modeled after Climate Fresk , a global, science-based collaborative mapping project...
Scientists warn vs ‘indirect’ effect of tropical cyclones during the monsoon season
Tropical cyclones hundreds of kilometers away from the Philippines are often more responsible for heavy rainfall than those that hit the country directly during the annual “Habagat” or southwest monsoon season from July to September.
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.
