Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Six (6) UP Asian Center faculty members received 2022 UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chairs and Faculty Grants in recognition of their research and mentoring efforts in the previous year. The awards were formally conferred during the University Council meeting on 10 October 2022. Below are the awardees from the UP Asian Center.

CENTENNIAL PROFESSORIAL AWARDEES

•   Jocelyn O. Celero, Ph.D., Associate Professor
•   Noel Christian A. Moratilla, Ph.D., Associate Professor
•   Tina S. Clemente, Ph.D., Professor
•   Joefe B. Santarita, Ph.D., Professor

CENTENNIAL FACULTY GRANT AWARDEES

•   Matthew M. Santamaria, Doctor of Laws, Professor
•   Henelito A. Sevilla, Jr., Ph.D., Professor

UP DILIMAN CENTENNIAL PROFESSORIAL CHAIR AND FACULTY GRANT AWARDS

The UPD Centennial Professorial Chair (PC) Awards and Faculty Grant (FG) Awards aim to provide recognition and incentives to faculty members who demonstrate outstanding performance in teaching, research or creative work, and public service. (Source: Memorandum No. PDLC 22-11, One UP PC & FG Awards Guide).
To qualify, UP Faculty have PhD/doctoral degree and show proof of research and/or creative outputs and mentoring. Research outputs pertain to at least one creative work (like an artwork or exhibit) or a journal article or book chapter published in selected journals and/or publishers at a designated time frame. The mentoring criteria include thesis/dissertation advising. (Source: UP Office of the Advancement of Teaching).

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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website.