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(5th in a series) 22 scientists from around the world—including Silliman University’s Hilconida Calumpong, Ph.D.—commissioned by the UN General Assembly to form the Ad Hoc Working Group  on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects, submitted the First World Oceans Report, which was adopted […]

Sixth graders of the Silliman University Elementary Scool (SUES) bagged the first place in the 1st Negros Island Region (NIR) Regional Finals of the Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge at Kabankalan City on March 31. Carlos Miguel Angelo S. Salazar and Jev Ulric P. Torres bested 15 other divisions to clinch the championship for SUES. The Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd […]

A seminar-workshop on preparing teachers toward whole person education will be held at Silliman University on May 24 to 26. The training is organized by the Early Childhood Department and the Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) of the College of Education. It is open to all school owners, administrators, trainers, preschool […]

Silliman University (SU) will host the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Arts Academy Summer Workshop “Sining sa Skwela” on May 15 to 19 at Silliman University. The five-day workshop is open to all Arts and Design Track teachers in Elementary, Junior High School, and Senior High School in the region.   “Sining sa Skwela” […]

22 scientists from around the world—including Silliman University’s Hilconida Calumpong, Ph.D.—submitted to the UN General Assembly in late 2015 their report as the Ad Hoc Working Group  on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects. We wish to  share some details (verbatim) of  the […]

A paper entitled “Reef-fish larval dispersal patterns validate no-take marine reserve network connectivity that links human communities” by the Silliman University – Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management’s (SUACKREM) was accepted for publication in Coral Reefs, the Journal of the International Society for Reef Studies, on March 14, 2017. Rene A. Abesamis, Garry R. […]

National Scientist Angel C. Alcala wrote that since the 1970s, frogs have been dropping dead in significant numbers around the world. These  were recorded by scientists in western United States, Puerto Rico and Western Australia in the 1970s and in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Venezuela in the 1980s. At first the events were believed to […]

Team Silliman won as 2nd runner-up in the HSBC National Business Analysis Competition 2017 on March 26 at the Ateneo de Manila University.  Rhea F. Castillo (BS Accountancy), Ina Gabrielle M. de la Torre (BS Business Computer Applications), Christian Clifford M. Ong (BS Entrepreneurship), and Jolina S. Sinco (BS Economics) – all in their junior year […]

Rhafael Mar Sevilla Ramos and Jose Noe Lopez Tan of Batch 2016 passed the March 2017 Mechanical Engineer Licensure Examination. Both Ramos and Tan are first-time takers after finishing their degree in October last year. Silliman garnered a passing rate of 66.67% against the national passing rate of 56.88%.

Issue Date: 4 April 2017 In behalf of the Silliman community, I extend my deepest sympathies to our colleague, Prof. Dionesio V. Piñero II and family on the senseless death of their daughter, Jan Nicole “Nikki” Piñero and her unborn child. All of us in Silliman are in shock and deeply saddened that the life of […]