VSU President Dr. Edgardo Tulin and his family, friends, and colleagues gathered May 15, for the blessing of the newly-renovated presidential cottage.

It has long been a dilemma of members of the student council to encourage active participation of students to extra-curricular activities. Faced by a difficulty, student officers have resorted into collecting fines from students who do not attend important assemblies.

Although widely practiced by organizations in the university, collecting fines has faced a lot of criticism. Now, the College of Engineering (CoE) has found a way around the problem by hitting two birds with one stone. The solution: donations, not fines.

Swimming with fins is no longer just for mermaids and mermen.

Finswimming, a sport which literally translates to ‘swimming with fins’, finds its way to the Visayas State University (VSU) through the initiative of the Institute of Human Kinetics (IHK).

In partnership with the Philippine Finswimming Federation Inc., IHK has just finished its first Finswimming Instructors’ Course on May 10 to 12 at the VSU Olympic Pool.

Victims of supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) still need more livelihood options and additional sources of income.  

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The Korean government has donated assorted seeds of vegetables and spices to the provincial government of Leyte for victims of supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan). The typhoon caused several damages in the agricultural sector during its landfall on November 8, 2013.

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) recognized VSU as center of excellence, and development in three programs, May 17, at the CHEd auditorium in Manila.

The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the VSU-hosted Visayas Consortium for Agriculture and Aquatic Resources Program (VICAARP) forged agreement with the local government of Inopacan, Leyte, March 31, to implement the project that will promote sustainable agriculture and rural development.