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The 21st Annual Book Fair of the Silliman University Library System opens next week with eleven booksellers from around the country. A series of activities has also been lined up from November 9 to 13 for a coinciding event that celebrates its fourth anniversary this year, the Learning Resource Exposition. For inquiries, e-mail the University […]

It can be said to ride on the changing preferences of today’s generation, especially with almost everything now accessible by a click of a finger. But it is one laboratory that challenges students to innovate; it nurtures mistakes and transforms them into an opportunity to learn and create an impact in the community. So is […]

College of Law Dean Atty. Mikhail Lee L. Maxino is one of only two lawyers from the Visayas appointed to the Commission on Integrity and Bar Discipline of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP). The Commission hears and investigates complaints against lawyers, and files its report to the IBP Board of Governors which in […]

Commercial growers of cabbage and Chinese pechay in Negros Oriental use chemical pesticides intensively to avoid risk of heavy crop losses and to maximize their profit, according to a recent study by by two professors from the College of Agriculture. The study by Dean, Dr. Jose Edwin Cubelo and Asst. Prof. Merlyn Buscato also found […]

When a 7.2-magnitude earthquake and typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines in 2013, there was serious thinking and re-thinking happening in Silliman University. One of the challenges that surfaced out of two of the Philippines’ worst natural disasters: develop calamity-resilient structures. Two years later, Silliman showcases its first classrooms made of container vans. A total of […]

Why Silliman for Senior High? In the comforts of a campus named one of the world’s most beautiful, under programs touted as among the country’s best, with student services and facilities ranked as the region’s finest…you “experience college in high school”. In Silliman, our students in the Senior High do not just ask: “What do […]

On October 13, ten churches in Singkil, Aceh Province, North Sumatra, Indonesia, were burned down. It claimed lives, injured many, and caused thousands to flee. Many now live in fear. The conflicts in this region are said to be racial and religious. These have been going on for many years. But the damage that they caused […]

University Cultural Officer Asst. Prof. Diomar C. Abrio will speak on “Trends in Culture and Arts Education” on October 23 to 24 at the Miyagino-Ku Cultural Center in Sendai City, Miyagi Perfecture in Japan. His talk is one of the features of the International Cultural Exchange Conference on Arts and Cultures that is organized by […]

To rise in a strategic location for business in the corner of two of Dumaguete’s major thoroughfares (Silliman Avenue and Hibbard Avenue) is The Portal East Building. It falls on the outer southern side of the campus of Silliman University, a National Historical Landmark, where pedestrian traffic is high. It faces the commercial district along […]

Portal, the official yearbook of Silliman University, is now available online. Its first online version features Graduating Class of 2015. Click: Portal 2015 The move to release a digital version of the yearbook along with the traditional hard format enables wider access, especially to parents and friends of the graduates. It is also consistent with […]