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The lone Sillimanian taker of the April 2017 Agriculturist Licensure Examination made it, giving Silliman a 100% passing rate against the 31.55% national passing rate. Graciano Jose Pal is now one of the country’s 2,938 newest licensed agriculturist. Congratulations!

A memorial service was held celebrating the life of MARTHA MAGDAMO-GHENT on June 16, 2017, 7pm at the Udarbe Memory Chapel.  Martha graduated from Silliman University High School in 1939. She then married George Marshall Ghent on August 9, 1945 in Dumaguete City and later moved on to the United States.  After World War II […]

Five alumni of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of State will deliver their lectures in the 16th Humphrey Voice Series at Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium, Silliman University (SU) on June 30. The lecture series, in coordination with SU’s College of Law, is called “Catch 22: Ethical Dilemmas in a […]

The construction of a church building made of six – 20-footer container vans in Catagbian, Bohol is completed and will be formally turned over to the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Catigbian, Bohol on July 2. It is a “calamity-smart” structure that can withstand up to 400kph winds and an intensity 8 […]

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 […]