The Visayas Consortium for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Program, known as ViCARP was selected as the 2020 Ugnay Award 1st Runner-Up, being the country’s second-best managed research consortium for years.

She succeeds Dr. Othello Capuno, who served as vice president for 12 years.

Dr. Roel R. Suralta, a Career Scientist II at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), received the 2020 Outstanding Research and Development Award or the Eduardo A. Quisumbing Medal for Basic Research and the 2020 Outstanding Filipino Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow in the field of Agriculture.

Visayas State University (VSU) faculty researchers and its human resource management director were recognized as regional winners for the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Awards 2020.

In partnership with the Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (BAFE), Visayas State University trained the employees of the Department of Agriculture (DA) on software-aided feasibility study preparation and evaluation on September 21- November 25, 2020.

A ceremonial groundbreaking was held for the establishment of the first Sweet Potato Processing Center in the Visayas held on December 8, 2020 at the Women’s Training Center in Barangay Cogon, Baybay City.

As part of Visayas State University’s (VSU) vision of becoming a globally competitive university, the Southeast Asian Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources, simply called University Consortium (UC), grants an affiliate membership to the Visayas State University.