THE CHAIR of the UST Department of Communication has been elected to a second term as humanities division chair of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), a government-attached body of researchers.
Prof. Joyce Arriola will serve another two-year term as NRCP Division XI (humanities) chair after being reelected on March 13. She first served in the post in 2023.
Arriola, the inaugural director of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts, and Humanities, will oversee NRCP research in the following disciplines: literature, language, architecture, music, cultural heritage, and media arts, among others.
Her department is one of the 13 divisions in the NRCP, tasked with defining the roles of the humanities in enhancing the arts and culture in the different fields of the hard and social sciences.
Arriola obtained her undergraduate (1988), master’s (1995), and doctorate degrees (2003) in literature from UST.
She also holds a master’s degree in communication major in journalism, and a doctorate in communication, both completed at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
In 2018, the NRCP conferred Arriola the Achievement Award in Humanities for her contributions to Philippine literary education and discourse.
She received the UST Graduate School Outstanding Alumni Award in 2014 and was awarded the Teodoro F. Valencia Professional Chair in Journalism in 2021.
Established in 1993 under Republic Act 4120, the NRCP is an attached agency to the Department of Science and Technology and is an advisory body on the country’s research agenda. Micah G. Pascua
