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Before the year 2025 came to a close, VSU reaffirmed its commitment to transformative, service-oriented leadership on the national stage when the University Supreme Student Council (USSC) was named as the national winner of the National Kabataan Fair: Empowering Youth Leadership and Solution during the 12th Philippine I Transform! Leaders’ Convention (PITLC) on November 13–18, 2025 in Baguio City.

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Silakbo–Baybay Film, an independent student-led film organization based at Visayas State University, continues to make waves in the national filmmaking arena after winning Most Child-Friendly Documentary (Young Adult Division) for its film Katutubong Pangarap at the DokyuBata 2025 National Awarding Ceremony held on November 28, 2025, at the Heritage Hotel, Manila.

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Visayas State University-Department of Biological Sciences (VSU-DBS) strengthened its citizen science initiatives in Ormoc City through a Marine Ecosystem Monitoring and Biodiversity Awareness Seminar held on October 29, 2025, at the Ormoc City Public Library.

For the first time in its century-long history, Visayas State University has surpassed the 100 mark in Scopus-indexed publications within a single year. In 2025, the University recorded 107 Scopus documents, placing it among a small group of Philippine higher education institutions with sustained research output visible in global academic databases.

VSU-opens-World-Soils-Day-2025-with-lecture-series-led-by-Polish-partners

Visayas State University (VSU) kicked off its week-long celebration of World Soil Day 2025 with an international lecture series led by Dr. Marcin Świtońiak and Dr. Przemysław Charzyński of Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Toruń, Poland.