Czech Professor Explores Linkage with Silliman
A professor from the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic was on campus on September 15. Dr. Tomas Petru met with Silliman President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan to explore potential collaboration between his institution and Silliman University, […]
Mrs. Joy V. Salatandre
For years, this lady has learned the art of resilience. Resilience is “the ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy”. It also refers to “the property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.” There can be more definitions of […]
Alumni Updates (September 21-27)
Officials of the Weslayan University-Philippines of Cabanatuan City were recently on campus to conduct benchmarking on September 17 and 18 with three units: Alumni and External Affairs, College of Nursing and Research and Development Center. The group was composed of Mr. Pacifico B. Aniag, president; Dr. Reynaldo S. Samonte, dean of the College of Nursing; […]
5 Off to Japan, Korea for Student Exchange; SU Hosts 3 Counterparts
Five Silliman students coming from different disciplines are now in Japan and Korea for their respective one-year student exchange programs. Three of their counterparts from these countries are also on the Silliman campus already. Three Silliman students are assigned in Japanese universities: one at the International Christian University in Tokyo: Allison Cruff V F. Ladero […]
Library Donates 1,268 Books to Schools
Just in two months’ time this semester, the Silliman University Library System has already donated a total of 1,268 books of various subjects to three schools in Dumaguete City. Silliman endorsed to the Colegio de Santa Catalina de Alejandria last month 273 volumes of books which the Library had in duplicate copies. A month earlier, […]
Shikoku Gakuin University Visits Silliman University
A delegation from Shikoku Gakuin University (SGU), Japan visited Silliman University on September 14 to meet with their current exchange student to Silliman and explore how the standing agreement between the two universities can be refined and expanded. The delegation was headed by Dr. Kazuhito Hasimoto, professor of drama and former president of SGU. He […]
Expanding Boundaries
Expanding Our BoundariesCWS Minister and Pastoral Team Coordinator, Silliman University Church Mark 7:24-37 This passage from the Gospel of Mark discomforts me. I can’t quite reconcile the Jesus who was sent to bid the children to come to him with the Jesus who calls this woman and her people dogs. Calling someone a dog was […]
Asst. Prof. Freslyn Lim-Saco
To be an instrument of healing, hope, comfort and cure is a nurse’s gift to the world. Nurses come as a ray of sunshine to the sick, a source of hope to the weary. They are an embodiment of selflessness. Their profession is not necessarily lucrative, but what they derive from it – the genuine […]
Sillimanian Places 5th in Medical Technologist Licensure Exam
A former corps commander of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) placed fifth in this year’s Medical Technologist Licensure Exam administered this September. Gabriel Paulo C. Orosco, who was named Armed Forces of the Philippines ROTC Cadet of the Year, leads the successful batch of 153 passers from Silliman. This year’s total passers from the […]
VP Dev’t, BOT Secretary Seal Silliman’s First Formal Partnership in Africa
Silliman University seals its first formal institutional partnership in Africa, following the trip of two official representatives of the University to Arusha, Tanzania on September 14 to 16. Upon the invitation of the United Evangelical Mission (UEM), Vice President for Development Prof. Jane Annette L. Belarmino and Board of Trustees Secretary Atty. Grace A. Sumalpong […]
