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Acclaimed Filipino virtuoso pianist Rudolf P. Golez returns to Dumaguete City for another concert, titled 24 Etudes F. Chopin, slated January 31 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. Mr. Golez started basic piano lessons at age four. He spent his high school years at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music Preparatory Division in New […]

Silliman University registered 100 per cent in the Nurse Licensure Exam administered November last year and which results were released January 23. The national passing rate was 57.29 per cent. A total of 30 from Silliman took the exams — 29 were first-timers and one, repeater. Most of the takers graduated in October 2014. There […]

Award-winning poet Ricardo de Ungria has been appointed Director-in-Residence for the 54th Silliman University National Writers Workshop by Silliman President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III upon the recommendation of the Advisory Board of the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center through its Coordinator, Ian Rosales Casocot. De Ungria has published eight books of poetry […]

Silliman University and the Diocese of Dumaguete are jointly organizing a benefit interfaith concert dubbed “Amare et Servire” (Love and Service) on February 1 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. This is the first-ever interfaith concert conducted by Silliman, a Protestant-affiliated higher education institution, and the Catholic Church in Dumaguete that reinforces the idea […]

Two professors from Myanmar arrived on campus on January 27 to start their month-long fellowship under the Coastal Resource Management (CRM) program of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA).  They are Dr. Cherry Aung from  Mawlamyine University and Ms. Nyo Nyo Tun from Myeik University. They are among only six from Myanmar […]

Silliman University launched its new student recruitment video titled “Your Silliman Experience.”  The video encapsulates in a little over three minutes the kind of campus life that Silliman offers, featuring scenes that depict a hoslitic experience that develops within students competence, character and faith.  Produced by the Office of Information and Publications, the video was […]

The College of Mass Communication is hosting a half-day seminar that focuses on population and development issues for young student-journalists on January 26.  Mulat Pinoy, a youth media program under the Probe Media Foundation, with support from the Philippine Center for Population and Development, brings in youth reporters in a series of discussions on issues […]

Fine Arts senior Anna Lacson presented her thesis exhibition dubbed “Passing Through: Night Drawings” from January 19 at the Foyer Gallery of the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium.  Presented by the Department of Fine Arts of the College of Performing and Visual Arts, the exhibit features graphite line drawings on black wood panels. The exhibit […]

The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is now accepting applications for the 54th National Writers Workshop to be held May 11 to 29, 2015 at the Silliman University Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village. This Writers Workshop is offering 12 fellowships to promising writers in the Philippines who want to have a chance to hone their […]

A professor of religious studies from the Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) in Geneva, New York launched the General Education Integrative Learning Lectures this semester with his talk on “The Promises and Pitfalls of Moral Formation in American Civil Religion” held January 12 at the Cyber Lecture Hall. Dr. Richard Salter drew insights from […]