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Silliman University and the Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation, Inc. are jointly organizing a Forum on Climate Change, Poverty and Development, with big names in advocacy and conservation work as speakers. The forum on March 20 in Silliman features experts in plenary presentations that provide both local […]

Thirteen officials and students from a university in Winchester, Virginia, which has the same acronym as Silliman University (SU) and an almost-similar website address, were on campus from March 9 to 11 for their Global Citizenship Program. The delegation from Shenandoah University was led by Trustee Ms Mary Bruce Glaize and Vice President for Student […]

A sustainable social project conceptualized by a team of Silliman students won this year’s Benilde Prize for Design Excellence. “The Bamboard Game Project” is a customizable multi-rule set mathematical board game made of bamboo. It is a board game with a semblance to checkers, only that players (maximum of six), takes turn in answering and […]

A professor of conservation biology from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts in the United States arrived on campus to explore opportunities for student exchange with the Silliman University. Dr. Gregory Keller, who is Department Chair of Biology at Gordon, arrived on campus on March 9 to discuss an exchange program between the two universities in […]

The Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment (CELTA) of the College of Education joins a global campaign aimed at raising awareness on disability and related issues among teachers and students. This movement, dubbed #DrawDisability, was launched by the United Nations in December 2014 through the Global Education First Initiative (GEFI). Its launch coincided […]

A senior Juris Doctor (JD) major at the College of Law made it to the list of Ten Best Mooters during the Philippine National Rounds of the 2015 Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, also known as Jessup Cup, held March 5 t0 7 in Manila. Micah Stefan Dagaerag clinched the tenth top […]

Chaminade University School of Nursing in Honolulu, Hawaii sends another batch of students to Silliman University under its International Nursing Clinical Immersion Program and Service-Learning slated March 8 to April 11. This year’s batch is composed of seven students: Jadamae Agoo, Janelle Lose, Genalyn Agustin, Hanna Curtius, Jaqueline Cano, Kimberly Culver and Sierra Carter. The […]

A professor of the University of Ingolstadt in Germany, who is chairman of a socio-civic arm of the same German university, was on campus February 24 to explore more opportunities of formal engagement with Silliman University on social development projects. Dr. Axel Bader, a professor of accounting and international taxation, met with Vice President for […]

The Cultural Affairs Committee joins a global network by launching in Silliman University the PechaKucha Night Dumaguete, a timed presentation format where speakers carry fun and informal conversations based on 20 slides. PechaKucha is a Japanese term for the sound of conversations, or, as described by local organizer Asst. Prof. Ian R. Casocot: “chitchat”. It […]

Award-winning literature professor Dr. Cesar Ruiz Aquino launched “Like a Shadow That Only Fits a Figure of Which It is Not a Shadow”, on February 21 at Student Center in the Oriental Hall. His new book features 151 poems. Some of these poems have figured in “Companionable Voices: Five Filipino Poets”, and some, which were […]