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Athletes from the High School Department bagged a total of 11 medals during the 20th Milo Little Olympics-Visayas held last month in Iloilo City. The Silliman team clinched a total of 5 silver and 6 bronze medals. Bagging silver were Marc Luther M. Colipapa, who won one each in the 200m breaststroke and 4x50m freestyle […]

A professor from the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic was on campus on September 15. Dr. Tomas Petru met with Silliman President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan to explore potential collaboration between his institution and Silliman University, […]

Five Silliman students coming from different disciplines are now in Japan and Korea for their respective one-year student exchange programs. Three of their counterparts from these countries are also on the Silliman campus already. Three Silliman students are assigned in Japanese universities: one at the International Christian University in Tokyo: Allison Cruff V F. Ladero […]

Just in two months’ time this semester, the Silliman University Library System has already donated a total of 1,268 books of various subjects to three schools in Dumaguete City. Silliman endorsed to the Colegio de Santa Catalina de Alejandria last month 273 volumes of books which the Library had in duplicate copies. A month earlier, […]

A delegation from Shikoku Gakuin University (SGU), Japan visited Silliman University on September 14 to meet with their current exchange student to Silliman and explore how the standing agreement between the two universities can be refined and expanded.  The delegation was headed by Dr. Kazuhito Hasimoto, professor of drama and former president of SGU. He […]

A former corps commander of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) placed fifth in this year’s Medical Technologist Licensure Exam administered this September. Gabriel Paulo C. Orosco, who was named Armed Forces of the Philippines ROTC Cadet of the Year, leads the successful batch of 153 passers from Silliman. This year’s total passers from the […]

Silliman University seals its first formal institutional partnership in Africa, following the trip of two official representatives of the University to Arusha, Tanzania on September 14 to 16. Upon the invitation of the United Evangelical Mission (UEM), Vice President for Development Prof. Jane Annette L. Belarmino and Board of Trustees Secretary Atty. Grace A. Sumalpong […]

Silliman University received a donation of printed materials in mint condition that formed part of the collection of three of the University’s late notable missionaries: couple Dr. Robert and Dr. Metta Silliman and Ms Abby Jacobs. The collection was entrusted to Silliman by lawyer John C. Cushman of California, USA. It was hand-delivered to Silliman […]

Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno awarded Judge Rafael Crescencio C. Tan Jr., Assistant Commandant of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, with the Chief Justice Cayetano Arellano Award, the Judicial Excellence Award for Second Level Court Judges. The ceremony held September 18 in the Manila Hotel was also attended by the other […]

Another batch of students from Ferris University in Japan was on campus from September 7 to 12 for service-learning, a component of their Global and Inter-Cultural Studies Program. The Japanese students visited the partner communities of the Institute of Service-Learning and had an opportunity to learn more about the Filipino way of life through discussions […]