President Aquino Appoints Alumnus to Head Clark Dev’t Corp
Incoming member of the Silliman University Board of Trustees (BOT), Atty. Felipe Antonio Remollo, has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Clark Development Corporation (CDC). CDC is the administrative and governing body of the Clark Freeport Zone, which features a 2,500-hectare modern aviation complex designated as the country’s future premier gateway […]
Fun Run Opens University Sportsfest
Members of the faculty and staff united in a fun run around the campus at the break of dawn of April 12 for the annual Silliman University sportsfest. Silliman President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III opened the ceremony at the Amphitheater where the faculty and staff convened after the jog and had a simple fellowship […]
Country’s Biodiversity Conservationists Come ‘Home’
Dr. Lawrence Heaney, Curator and Head of the Division of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA, points to a slide of his presentation on “Diversity and Conservation of Philippine Mammals: A 20-Year Overview” during the opening of 20th Biodiversity Conservation Symposium of the Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines (WCSP) […]
300 Gather for 33rd Nat’l Physics Convention
Around 300 teachers, researchers and students from around the country gathered at the historic Silliman Hall on April 6 to 9 for the 33rd Annual National Physics Convention of the Philippine Physics Society (PPS). Themed “Physics and Environmental Well-Being,” the convention featured a series of lectures, workshops, short courses and field trips. In his message, […]
Message at the Opening of the 20th WCSP Biodiversity Symposium
Ben S. Malayang III, PhD | Silliman University Recent works on conservation explore how we think when we do environmental science.[1] Let me focus on three most recent: Frodeman (2011) talks of how our approaches to doing environmental science are mired in a morass of (1) Kantian assumptions (on the inherent value of disciplinal specializations);(2) Humboldtian […]
Making Taxes as Permanent as Death
(Note: This article appeared on Business Mirror, Sunday, 10 April 2011) IT has been said that there are only two things, which are permanent in life: taxes and death. Filipinos refuse to recognize this simple truth. They always try to evade and cheat on both death and taxes. Most of the time, they succeed in […]
Silliman Produces New Mechanical Engineers
Silliman University congratulates its new licensed mechanical engineers who passed the board exams administered on March 19 to 20, 2011: Campomanes, Edsel Calumpang Ramirez, Danilo Ogok Ramos, Chiquo Mar Sevilla Silliman's passing rate: 100%National passing rate: 53.93%
Alumni Letter March 2011
March is Graduation month at Silliman. There were 973 who graduated with college, graduate and doctoral degrees; 204 graduated from high school; 150 from elementary and 140 from early childhood. Sixty-three of the college graduates have been studying in Silliman University since preparatory school days and are called by the yearbook, The Portal. As “RED-blooded […]
Salonga Center Trains Army, PNP on ‘Law Enforcement’
The Dr. Jovito R. Salonga Center for Law and Development of Silliman University conducted a two-day “Law Enforcement Seminar” for 40 members of the 302nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and the Negros Oriental Philippine National Police. Conducted end of last month at Camp Leon Kilat, Tanjay City, the seminar touched on topics which […]
Developing A “Science Culture” – Now Na!
(Keynote, 2011 National Conference, Philippine Physics Society, held at Silliman University, April 6-7, 2011) Ben S. Malayang III | Silliman University Two weeks ago, a Singaporean academic told of an old story about how a boy saved the people of his coastal village. One early morning, the boy had risen up well ahead of everybody […]
