The School-on-the-Air (SOA) on Visual Arts for Mental Health and the Environment kicked off its six-week-long activities through a virtual opening program held on July 12, 2021 via Zoom.

Nagoya University (NU), Japan’s national research university and the third highest ranked educational institution in Nippon, is set to establish a station in the Visayas State University (VSU).

To be officially called the International Station for Tropical Agricultural Science (ISTAS), this will be the second of its kind in the Philippines with its pioneering station already set up in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).