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Student researchers from the biology department of Silliman University presented their research in monitoring waste water treatment facilities in Dumaguete and Bayawan City, using new equipment and new techniques such as bio-filtration. The research presentation was made last June 1 at the American Resource Center at Silliman University. National Scientist Dr. Angel C. Alcala and […]

Dr. Michele A. Naranjo’s “Nutrition Intervention as Service Learning: Silliman University’s Indigenous Food Security in Philippine High Risk Calamity Areas” got accepted in the 6th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning (SL) at Petra Christian University (PCU), Indonesia on May 28 to June 2. Dr. Naranjo’s abstract cited SU’s Home Economics-Nutrition & Dietitics Department (HE-ND)’s long […]

Faculty and students of the Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences (IEMS) attended the 35th Symposium and Annual Meeting of the Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines (ASB) on May 28-31 at the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City. The delegation was headed by IEMS Director, Dr. Hilconida P. Calumpong, and four students […]

The Silliman University School of Agro-Industrial and Technical Education (SAITE) is giving out 100 scholarship slots for its Contact Center Services NC II certificate program. This is open to high school graduates, 18 years old and above, as well as to all SU faculty and staff. This certificate program consists of basic, common and core […]

Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio launched and distributed an e-book about China’s historic claims to majority of the South China Sea. The e-book, titled “The South China Sea Dispute: Philippine Sovereign Rights and Jurisdiction in the West Philippine Sea”, is a collation of over 140 speeches and lectures by Justice Carpio on the […]

U.S. Embassy Counselor for Public Affairs Carolyn Glassman visited Silliman’s American Studies Research Center (ASRC) on June 1 to see the updates and progress of the Wastewater Monitoring Program. This is a joint-project among the Embassy’s Thomas Jefferson Information Center, SU, and the local government. Wastewater treatment is a required process for all waters that […]

Silliman University Grade School Department was granted Level III accreditation status by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). The Level III status attests to the department’s academic and co-curricular excellence, and is valid until December 2020. PAASCU is one of the founding members of the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the […]

Eight graduates from the College of Engineering and Design are among the country’s 2,514 new Civil Engineers who passed the May 2017 Civil Engineer Licensure Examination. Silliman’s passing rate of 40% is higher than the national passing rate of 35.92%. Congratulations to our new Civil Engineers: Jamosmos, Don RanierMonte, LuigiNoynay, YanibeeOlpoc, Rock KirbyPatrimonio, Jan BerchmansSaguran, […]

All seven graduates who took the May 2017 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Licensure Examination made it, hitting a 100% passing rate for Silliman University. The national passing rate is 35.13%. Sabrina Camille Colinares, Queenie Aeriel Dee, Llia Venus Iso, Kimberly Gale Quitong, Tommy Redula, Jan Carla Serillo, and Nove Gene Wong are now Certified Public […]

  Top-notch Filipino designer and Sillimanian, Amir Sali, was featured in the final show of the Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2017 held at Discovery Primera, Makati City on May 28, 2017. The internationally-acclaimed Filipino master couturier drew inspiration for his latest collection entitled:  In the Beginning, from the Book of Genesis’ account of the creation and […]