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1960 by topic. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1960. 1960 ( MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
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e. The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the " '60s " or the " Sixties ") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1] While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the " countercultural decade ...
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UPLB was originally established as the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture (UPCA) on March 6, 1909, by the UP Board of Regents. Edwin Copeland, an American botanist and Thomasite from the Philippine Normal College in Manila, was its first dean.Classes began in June 1909 with five professors while 12 students initially enrolled in t...
The UPLB campus consists of 14,665 ha (36,240 acres) spread across the provinces of Laguna, Negros Occidental, and Quezon.
As part of the University of the Philippines System, UPLB is governed by the 11-person UP Board of Regents, which is jointly chaired by the head of the Commission on Higher Educationand the UP president. The Board of Regents has the authority to approve the institution, merger, and abolition of degree programs as recommended by the UP president. It...
UPLB offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its nine colleges and two schools. Most of these programs award science degrees. It also awards high school diplomas through the University of the Philippines Rural High School (UPRHS), a subunit of the College of Arts and Sciences, which acts as a laboratoryfor its BS Math and Science ...
Six research institutes were named Centers of Excellence in Research via presidential decree: Institute of Plant Breeding, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Animal Science, National Crop Protection Center, Farming Systems and Soil Resources Institute, and National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. UPLB hosts a n...
In 2008, 2,170 students were housed in the eight dormitories managed by UPLB. In the academic year 2011–2012, fees for all UPLB dormitories increased by at least 25 percent from the previous rate of ₱350 (US$8) a month. As with the previous dormitory fee increase of 221 percent in 1997, making the dormitories "financially self-supporting" was one o...
Senate President Juan Miguel ZubiriMakati City Mayor Abigail BinaySocioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio BalisacanUPLB Academic Heritage MonumentUPLB Carillon TowerPegaraw MonumentUPLB Entrance- Jose V. Camacho Jr.
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November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected president. November 13 – Sammy Davis Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt.
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The College of Development Communication (CDC) is the ninth college established under the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). [3] It is recognized worldwide as a pioneer [4] of development communication as an academic field. It offered the Philippines' first communication course in 1960, [5] as a major under the Bachelor of Science ...
Title Director Cast Genre Note The Dark at the Top of the Stairs: Delbert Mann: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Shirley Knight, Angela Lansbury: Drama: Warner Bros.; from William Inge play
