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Every September, the University sets apart a week-long celebration of the United Nations General Assembly Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace. This year, the Peace Week spearheaded by the Religion and Peace Studies and Psychology Department, was held from September 21 to 27. Themed “Right of Peoples to Peace,” Peace Week opened with […]

A student from Indonesia who is in her senior year at the College of Nursing was among those named Three Most Outstanding International Students of the Philippines by the Philippine International Friendship and Understanding Association, Inc. Diva Putri Wulandari, who received her award on September 25, is the only recipient from a university outside Luzon. […]

Three students enrolled in the Master in Information System program ranked third in the Pitching Competition during the Technopreneurship bootcamp held September 27 at the Uytengsu Computer Studies Hall. Mary Romar McIntyre, Kevin Villagonzalo and Carena Mae Manzano comprised the only student group that placed in the competition for their project, “Intelligent Healthcare Assistant.” The […]

High school senior Jude Martin Amiscaray was declared Champion during the Smoke-Free Inter-high School Oratorical Contest held September 29. This competition, themed “Making Dumaguete Smoke-free for a Healthy Lifestyle, Quit Now!” was conducted to celebrate the second year of the City’s enforcement of its Smoke Free Ordinance. There were a total of ten contestants coming […]

The University’s official student publication, the Weekly Sillimanian (tWS), was awarded Best Semi-Broadsheet during the 11th Organization of Student Services, Educators, Inc. (OSSEI) Seminar and Workshop on Campus Journalism held in Baguio City on September 18 to 20. TWS editor-in-chief Stephanie Colinco (Psychology III; first from right in photo) and associate editor Andrea Lim (Mass […]

The Australian Embassy in Manila has included Silliman University on its list of some 15 Philippine universities accredited under its New Colombo Plan (NCP) to host undergraduate students from Australia who are interested to pursue a full year of studies or a short-term internship in the Philippines. Australian Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Bill Tweddell […]

Former National Treasurer Prof. Leonor M. Briones gave a lecture on various nuances to the problem of corruption in the Philippines, during a Forum on Applied Ethics in Good Governance held September 22 at the historic Silliman Hall. This forum is the second in a series of lectures on applied ethics that is supported by […]

A team from Microsoft Philippines was in Silliman to renew Microsoft's partnership with the University. The partnership covers Microsoft's open value subscription license, which includes the latest versions of Windows OS, Office and Core CALs. It also reinforced the membership of the University under Microsoft's Information Technology Academy program. This grants Silliman access to Microsoft's […]

 Eleven service-learners from Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan spent a weeklong exposure to the Filipino way of life in partner communities of Silliman University from September 7 to 15, as part of their Global and Intercultural Studies. They are: Haruka Isono, Yuri Kato, Mifuyu Tsunoi, Hiroko Naya, Mayu Asakura, Manami Sakamoto, Kasumi Niijima, Misa Koyanagi, […]

Silliman University inaugurated on September 25 the Simulation Laboratory and Resource Center which features life-size robots and state-of-the-art medical equipment suitable for both clinical and disaster response simulation in a hospital setting. The new Laboratory was made possible through a grant of $500,000 from the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad of the United States Agency […]