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Athletes from the High School Department brought home a total of 23 medals from two badminton tournaments held last month. Eighteen were garnered during the Negros Athletic Association (NAA) Badminton Age Group Tournament held last August 22 to 24, and five more during the Visayas leg of the First Sun Cellular-Ming Ramos Juniors Badminton Tournament […]

Sixth grader Audrey Kiara Delfin bagged a silver medal in the storytelling category (English) during the 35th Annual National Graders’ Convention held September 1 to 5 at the Teacher’s Camp in Baguio City. Three other sixth graders also received awards for their exemplary performance in their respective categories: Germuell Kin Pateño (Best in VJ Hosting), […]

An original musical that is inspired by the children’s book “Alamat ng Ampalaya” (Legend of Bitter Gourd) is being staged at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium from September 19 to September 22. “Ampalaya the Musical” takes off from the famous book by Augie Rivera Jr. (Read synopsis below.) It features the University’s homegrown thespians and […]

The Medical School adds another year to its consistent record of hitting the 100 per cent mark in the Physician Licensure Examination.  Results released on September 4 by the Professional Regulation Commission showed 21 new medical doctors from Silliman. This is the fifth consecutive year for the Medical School to garner a perfect passing percentage […]

College of Law Dean Atty. Mikhail Lee L. Maxino is this year’s recipient of the Chief Justice Panganiban Professorial Chair on Liberty and Prosperity from the Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity. As a Professorial Chair holder, he receives a grant of P200,000 to support his research and scholarly outputs, including lectures “advocating the promotion, appreciation, […]

Twenty-one are this year’s new Sillimanians. The School of Agro-Industrial and Technical Education (SAITE) graduated its first batch of students on September 1 at the Cyber Lecture Hall of the Instructional Media and Technology Center. They are: Klint Bacud, Rey Cadalin, Regie Cafino, JemarDela Torre, Ken Virson de la Salde, Warren Deles, Carl John Gonzales, […]

Mass Communication senior Michiko Bito-on is among four Filipino college students who were accepted into the Global Undergraduate Exchange (UGrad) Program of the United States Department of State. Bito-on, who was the editor-in-chief of the school paper, the Weekly Sillimanian, is now pursuing a year of studies at St. Catherine University (SCU) in St. Paul, […]

Members of the academe from various Christian schools and universities in the Philippines and other Asian countries gathered for a two-day multi-institutional service-learning forum on “Ethical Concerns and Human Protection Issues in Service-Learning” held September 1 to 2 in Dumaguete City. Silliman University was the lead school in the forum that was organized by the […]

For three consecutive Saturdays starting September 6, the College of Computer Studies (CCS), through one of its Computer Fundamentals 1 classes, is giving a series of free Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Skills Enhancement Training for public elementary and high school teachers in Dumaguete City. Sessions are hosted at the Uytensu Computer Center.  The training […]

Four officials of Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU) in Indonesia visited Silliman University on August 29.  Heading the delegation was SWCU Board of Trustees Chairperson Rev. Samuel Budy Prasetya. He was with Rev. Dominic Petrus Jarob, Advisory Board Member; Ms Martha Nandiri, Deputy Rector for Institutional Relations; and Rev. Norlina Rambu Jola Kalunga, Head of […]