VSU officially rolled out LIYAB SparkLab 2025 at the VSU Smart Classroom in Visca, Baybay City, Leyte, on December 16, 2026, to kickstart a new wave of youth-led business ideas. The program is built to spark grassroots innovation across Eastern Visayas, offering hands-on training, mentorship, and vital resources for young people eager to reshape sustainable […]
Eastern Visayas is the Philippines’ agricultural pillar. The local coconut industry ranks as the country’s sixth-largest coconut-producing region, which sustains the livelihood of thousands of local farming households. However, managing this agricultural footprint has never been easy. The region experiences catastrophic storms year-round and is situated within the Pacific typhoon belt. In 2013, Super Typhoon […]
Southern Leyte’s lowland dipterocarp forests are considered some of the region’s most biologically rich yet highly vulnerable ecosystems.
The Baybay Rootcrop Farmers Association (BRFA), in partnership with the Baybay City Agricultural Office (CAO), received the Best Grants-in-Aid (GIA) Project- Provincial Level award during the 2025 Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region VIII Science, Technology and Innovation Awards held on September 3 at Robinsons Mall, Tacloban City.
The Faculty of Engineering is tapped by the Local Government Units (LGUs) in the region for potential RDEI projects and initiatives. These efforts align with the Faculty’s RDEI Agenda with real community needs on Disaster Risk Reduction Management. VSU DCE, DGE launches Project SIGURADO with LGU Abuyog to Strengthen Community Resilience VSU Department of Civil […]
The Philippine Root Crop Research and Training Center (Philrootcrops) of Visayas State University strengthened its extension efforts through a two-day Training on Ube Production held on August 6-7, 2025, in partnership with the Municipal Agriculture Office of Tampakan, South Cotabato. The training, conducted at the FITS Training Hall, aimed to enhance the capacity of local […]
Restoring our forests goes beyond an environmental mission; it is a collective national responsibility. A new and potentially favorable partnership is in the works as the 93rd Infantry Battalion (93IB) of the Philippine Army under the command of Lt. Col. Celeste Frank Sayson, visited the Biodiversity Research Center (BRC) of the Visayas State University (VSU) […]
