Colleague Of The Week

Assistant Professor Anatoly Karpov Buss ventured into an unfamiliar territory. Yet he managed to live far from home, gained an extended family of friends, and fell in love with the charm that this City of Gentle People boasts of: Silliman University. Fondly called Karpov by his friends, he was raised in Makati. He grew up […]

Ms. Nenita Baligasa-Albina is a living proof that education is definitely the key to a better future. Coming from a poor family, Nita or Nitay, as what her friends call her, enrolled in Silliman University on a work grant. She put herself through college as a student assistant. In order to secure enough allowance to […]

She is a woman who doesn’t want to just stand in one corner and wait for events to unfold. Undaunted by criticisms, she continues to display a positive disposition. She stands firm on her principles, and fights for what she strongly advocates for. Assistant Professor Michele Joan D. Valbuena, “Bing” to many, is a cause-oriented […]

Being a servant of God, Rev. Jeremias M. Lagahit has been brought by fate to different places. His life is a continuing selfless journey in being of service to others. “Tata”, as what his siblings call him, is the youngest in the brood of nine. He grew up having all the attention to himself, and […]

Providing help is the best gift Prof. Jaruvic Rafols, Head of the Guidance and Testing Division, can give to the community.  “It is a human nature to help. That’s explains why I am in my profession as a guidance counselor,” he says.  Every day, Jaruvic encounters students who allow him to appreciate what he does […]

Teaching how to solve complicated number problems in the easiest and most enjoyable way possible is the specialty of Prof. Alice A. Mamhot of the Mathematics Department. “I see to it that my students can learn and enjoy every time we meet in class,” she says. And this she does without being consumed by traditional […]

Talk of the swim team of Silliman University and his face would hardly be detached from it. Assistant Professor Dionesio V. Piñero II is the coach of the Silliman swim team and concurrently Chairperson of the Physical Education Department of the College of Education.  He says swimming is his passion, something that he developed within himself after being […]

The life of Assistant Professor Mark Ian Caballes is like a big stage. When the show starts and the spotlight is already on him, he gives his best performance. “I really love the stage. I always give my best in every performance. I always make it the most memorable whenever I stand on stage. That […]

On the ground floor of Guy Hall lies an office which has silently served the Silliman community for its various printing needs. The Printing and Publishing Unit ([PPU] formerly Silliman Press), now under the supervision of the Office and Information and Publications, can be the only all-male unit in the university. And one of the […]

There's probably no other person on campus who has received the most number of smiles than Mr. Michael Frederic Catada.  Without him uttering “CHEESE!”, every person who sits right across him volunteers what to Mother Theresa is “an action of love… a beautiful thing”. That — what with the work that he does that captures […]