US-Based Foundation Offers Scholarship in Music
The Student Scholarship and Aid Division (SSAD) announces the opening of a scholarship that covers tuition and school fees for continuing students majoring in music. Established on March 31, 2011, the “Daniel Fissell Music Foundation Scholarship” at Silliman is for students in their third year in college who are enrolled in Music or Theology majoring […]
Who determines who is hungry?
Governments, research groups, academics and think tanks have made it their business to determine the status of people in society. They count, sample, classify, group, estimate, develop formulas, run their computers, and voila!—one is rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, developed or underdeveloped, according to their samples, indicators and other tests. One can even be […]
Law Professor Speaks on Human Trafficking at Arizona State
College of Law professor Atty. Sheila Lyn Catacutan-Besario was the lone speaker from the Philippines in an international conference against human trafficking held March 11 at the Arizona State University (ASU) in the United States. Atty. Catacutan-Besario, Deputy Director of the Dr. Jovito V. Salonga Center for Law and Development at Silliman and a Fulbright […]
Fellows to 50th SU National Writers Workshop Named
Silliman University National Writers Workshop Director-in-Residence Rowena Tiempo-Torrevillas, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Silliman University are pleased to announce that the following young writers have been accepted as fellows for the 50th Silliman University National Writers Workshop scheduled on 2-20 May 2011: For Poetry Charmaine Carreon (University of the Philippines-Diliman) Evangeline […]
Silliman Registers 100% Passing in MedTech Board
All six fresh graduates of the Institute of Clinical and Laboratory Sciences passed the Medical Technology Licensure Examination administered last month. This registers a 100 per cent passing average for Silliman University against the national passing rate of 60.6 per cent. The new Sillimanian licensed medical technologists are: Bama, Maria Nina N. Bancure, Jane G. […]
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 […]
