{"id":262593,"date":"2020-07-23T03:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262593"},"modified":"2020-07-23T03:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:05:51","slug":"up-diliman-to-hold-first-virtual-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/23\/up-diliman-to-hold-first-virtual-grad\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Diliman to hold first virtual grad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_247727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247727\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UP_Diliman_Quezon_Hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-247727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UP_Diliman_Quezon_Hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UP_Diliman_Quezon_Hall.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UP_Diliman_Quezon_Hall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UP_Diliman_Quezon_Hall-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UP_Diliman_Quezon_Hall-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a media release Wednesday, UP Diliman said leading Class 2020 are 28 summa cum laude, an academic distinction for graduates who earned a weighted average grade (WAG) of 1.20 or better. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=25478841\">photo by Ramon FVelasquez\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) will confer academic degrees on 3,789 candidates for graduation in its first virtual commencement exercises on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a media release Wednesday, UP Diliman said leading Class 2020 are 28 summa cum laude, an academic distinction for graduates who earned a weighted average grade (WAG) of 1.20 or better.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Raphael N. Ambrosio, BS Economics, leads the top honors with a WAG of 1.049, followed by Martin Alexander F. Cruz, BS Business Administration and Accountancy, 1.086, and Jose Antonio C. Buencamino, Bachelor of Music (Composition), 1.098.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael L. Tan, UPD immediate past chancellor, is this year\u2019s commencement speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The university, however, is limiting attendance to the ceremony strictly to key participants due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Forming the backdrop for this year\u2019s ceremony is \u201cDalunduyan,\u201d a triptych of arches depicting portals.<\/p>\n<p>Created by artist and UPD faculty Toym Imao, the work is a portmanteau of three vernacular terms namely \u201cdaluyan,\u201d meaning a channel or portal; \u201clunduyan\u201d or center; and \u201cduyan\u201d or cradle.<\/p>\n<p>The artist uses the cradle to symbolize the graduates as vessels of compassion or \u201cmalasakit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dalunduyan will remain at the Quezon Hall until December, marking the duration of the university\u2019s lockdown because of the pandemic.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) will confer academic degrees on 3,789 candidates for graduation in its first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":247727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262595,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262593\/revisions\/262595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}