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  Valentine’s Day this year marks the 13th installment of VDay, a global campaign to end violence against women, in Dumaguete City with its flagship event “The V Manologues” showing February 14 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium.   The new play, which is traditionally fielded by female cast members, takes on an all-male […]

Education junior Amyrrha Estolloso was among 81 outstanding student leaders in the country that participated in the 17th Ayala Young Leaders Congress held February 10 to 13 in Batangas. The AYLC is one of the country’s prestigious leadership programs for college students being run by the Ayala Group of Companies. It is known for its […]

Francis Parker School (FPS) in San Diego, California is back in Silliman University for its annual service-learning exposure. The batch this year is composed of 18 high school students who are on campus for around week, from February 13 to 18.   They will be divided into groups and assigned to five different partner communities […]

Two graduates from the Institute of Rehabilitative Sciences clinched top spots in the 2015 Physical and Occupational Therapist Licensure Exam administered February 1 to 2. Nicole Janine R. Gatillo placed fifth; Raizel Eunice G. Panisa, ninth. They lead twelve other passers from the University: Kathleen Raena M. Alabastro RejineEmer D. Alarios Hanaeza P. Boransing Robert […]

Veteran broadcast journalist and 2014 McLuhan Prize winner Cheche Lazarro tackled the change in media landscape from the traditional channels to the social and crowd-sourced platforms and with it the need to improve awareness on ethical practices and principles of accountability relevant in the daily practice of journalism. Her talk on “Ethics and Accountability in […]

New York-based poet Mr. Joseph O. Legaspi arrived on campus on January 22 as a Fulbright research scholar for four months. Mr. Legaspi chose Silliman University for his comparative study between the kind of poetry written in English by Filipinos in the Philippines and those written by Filipino-Americans in the United States. The University not […]

Integrity School, a project that calls for citizen empowerment and a stop to the culture of apathy, was launched January 26 in Silliman University. The project is an initiative of Bantay.ph done in partnership with the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy in Manila. Some 60 students, who are officers of their respective […]

The college student publication, the Weekly Sillimanian (tWS), was the only weekly paper that clinched a spot in the Broadsheet Category during the 10th Lubas Visayas-wide Press Convention held January 29 to February 1 in Iloilo City. tWS ranked third. First and second places went to student publications that are released monthly. Editor-in-chief Stephanie Colinco […]

Three papers from collaborative research projects by faculty and students have been accepted for presentation during the 3rd International Conference in Technology (InCiTe) organized February 12 to 13 in Manila. The three are: “Traffic Sign Detection and Classification using Support Vector Machine,” “Dapogan: An Online Database of Food Recipes with Indigenous Ingredients,” and “Discovering Buying […]

Silliman University President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III issued a statement on January 29 that calls for unity in pursuing peace in Mindanao and seeking justice for the 44 members of the Special Action Force who were killed in Maguindanao last Sunday. “Tomorrow, the entire Filipino nation is being called to mourn the loss of […]