Technology With Responsibility: The International Student’s Role in a University
(This page temporarily features articles by Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan, Vice President for Academic Affairs, who has been designated as Acting President in concurrent capacity, while Dr. Ben S. Malayang III is on official leave. Dr. Malayang will resume his reflections in August.) By: Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan(Note: Message delivered at the opening […]
Silliman, DENR Sign Agreement on Socio-Econ Survey
Silliman University, through the Silliman University Government Affairs (SUGA), and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources signed June 22 at the Board Room of the Leopoldo T. Ruiz Administration Hall a Memorandum of Understanding on the conduct of the Region 7 Community Based Forest and Mangrove Management Project-KfW (CBFMMP-KfW) Baseline/Household and Socio Economic Survey. […]
What Dr. Hibbard Might Have Seen
(Delivered by Silliman University President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III as his keynote speech at the Silliman University Alumni Council of North America 10th TIPON Anniversary celebration held June 18-21, 2011 at Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.) It’s been told many times in Silliman that when Dr. David Hibbard, our founder, first saw Dumaguete from a boat […]
2 Students Off to Peace-building Conference in Hong Kong
The issue on the widening disparity between the rich and the poor in most Asian countries has pooled in a conference in Hong Kong students from Christian academic institutions, including Silliman University. Two Silliman students are at the Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the international student conference on “Peace-Makers and […]
Physics Grad Advances to TOSP National Search
A fresh graduate with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Physics is among this year’s 30 national finalists from around the country to the prestigious search for the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP). Jonathan Andro P. Tan, who graduated magna cum laude in March and was awarded Most Outstanding Student of the […]
CCS Connects to Automated Election Confab via Live Streaming
Faculty members and students of the College of Computer Studies (CCS) participated in the Filipino IT (Information Technology) for Automated Election (FIT4E) Conference via online live streaming last June 13. CCS Dean Dr. Dave E. Marcial was among those invited as online reactors during the plenary session in the afternoon. Throughout the whole-day session, Dr. […]
Professor’s Work Cited Outstanding Scientific Paper
A professor at the Chemistry Department is among the recipients of the Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards of the National Academy of Science and Technology. Prof. Paulina S. Apilla will receive her plaque in a special ceremony at the Manila Hotel on July 14 for her paper, “A partial expressed sequence tag (EST) library of the […]
Silliman Produces 3 New Engineers
Three members of Class 2011 passed the Civil Engineer Licensure Examination administered May 11 to 12 in Cebu City. Silliman University congratulates its new licensed civil engineers: Ada, Francis Zachary P. Nalam, April Joy T. Santiago, Emile Rey V.
Dependence, Independence and Interdependence
Sunday, 12 June 2011 20:44 Liling Magtolis Briones / Boiled Green Bananas (Business Mirror) Yesterday we celebrated our 113th Independence Day. That is, independence from the Spaniards. On June 12, 1898, we declared ourselves independent from the crushing heel of Spanish colonialism, only to fall into the deceptive clutches of American imperialism. We declared ourselves […]
And They Were Speaking in Tongues …
(Sermon delivered on Pentecost Sunday, June 12, 2011, Filipino-American United Church of Christ, Queens, New Yorl, USA) Ben S. Malayang III TEXT: Acts 2: 1-4 We were in Boston last week to visit our New England Silliman alumni. The Rev. Bart and Dr. Priscilla Kelso, who had only recently returned to Boston from a semester’s […]
