Visayas State University (VSU) in partnership with the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of Baybay City released a native endangered species of eagle called Pinsker’s hawk-eagle back into the wild on August 8, 2024, adding another achievement for the university’s goal in the conservation and protection of wildlife resources. 

The VSU Department of Biotechnology welcomed the research team of Professor Dr. Jiro Nakayama from Kyushu University in Japan who visited the university for their follow-up study under the Asian Microbiome Project (AMP).

The Visayas State University has once again proven its caliber in promoting open access to knowledge by securing its position as one of the top 10 best-performing higher education institutions in the Philippines according to the latest edition of the Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities published in July 2024.

Two Viscan-made film pitches emerged as qualifiers for the Mga Kwento ng Klima Short Films 2024 (MKK Shorts 2024), a competition for filmmakers launched by the Oscar M. Lopez Center to capture the climate crisis experience of Filipinos.

With the generous offer of the DCV Industrial Controls Enterprise, a marketing company that supplies agricultural equipment, their team visited VSU to share their expertise and technologies in a demonstration of the latest agricultural machinery with our 120 agriculture students.

[This is the full transcript of the keynote message delivered by Atty. Alain Charles J. Veloso, Private Sector Representative of the VSU Board of Regents for the 2nd Cluster of the 71st Commencement Exercises of the Visayas State University-Main Campus.]

VSU officially started the new academic year on August 12, 2024, in all its five campuses. The university welcomed 2,399 first-year students enrolled in the first semester of 2024-2025 in the Main Campus.