VSU President Edgardo E. Tulin pledged to use his expertise in the fields of agricultural chemistry and biotechnology, and his profession as researcher and academician, for the sustained growth of the marginal communities.

Allen Glen C. Gil, a senior Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering student, was awarded as the most outstanding agricultural and biosystems engineering student leader for 2019 by the Philippine Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers (PSABE), from among 61 schools offering the BSAE and BSABE degree programs in the country.

Visayas State University, true to its thrust as a research academe, recently launched the first Food Testing Laboratory in Eastern Visayas.

VSU senior BS in Computer Science students Neptali E. Montañez and Jonel Dominic E. Tapang bagged awards during the 2nd Student Regional Innovation and Computing (STRING) Conference hosted by the Leyte Normal University on April 12, 2019.

The Philippine Commission on Women has certified Baybay City’s Barangay Management Information System (BMIS) as the first Gender and Development-Local Learning Hub (GAD-LLH) for CY 2019-2022 to implement the barangay-based sex-disaggregated data (SDD). Baybay City is the first LGU to receive the certification in Region 8 on March 8, 2019 at PICC, Manila.

Mr. Feljun D. Sagliba, fifth year geodetic engineering student of Visayas State University, won the Best Research and Best Presenter awards during the Geodetic Engineering Student Conference (GESC) held at DMC Theater, UP Diliman, Quezon City on April 8-9.

To promote advancement in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology in the country, the Philippine Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PSBMB) - Visayas Chapter hosted its 2nd Regional Symposium on February 21-22, 2019 at the Visayas State University Convention Center.