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A veteran Cebu-based journalist who was the recipient of the 2013 Marshall McLuhan Prize from the Embassy of Canada described the evolution of the community press in times of great catastrophe during her lecture on March 13 at the Cyber Lecture Hall of the Instructional Media and Technology Center. “[Journalists] are being sent out to […]

The Silliman University Reserved Officers’ Training Corps (SU-ROTC) Unit was recently adjudged overall champion in the Regional Annual Administrative Performance Evaluation (RAAPE), garnering 98.88 per cent, higher than its rating in the previous year.   This is the second consecutive year that the SU-ROTC was declared regional champion. SU-ROTC Commandant Corporal Carlito L. Villanueva was […]

Two senior Electrical Engineering students join the list of awardees for the 25th Bank of the Philippine Islands-Department of Science and Technology (BPI-DOST) Science Awards. Louis Gerard C. Rotea and Johara M. Villanueva received their awards on March 6 at the Mind Museum in Global City, which included a cash prize of P25,000 and an […]

The Silliman University Staff Association (SUSA) has elected its new set of officers during its general assembly held March 10, 2014. President is Ms Glynnis Jean C. Casiño, currently secretary at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. Ms Casiño obtained three degrees from Silliman: AB Political Science in 2000, MA Public Administration in 2004 and […]

Eight students from Honolulu’s Chaminade University School of Nursing are here for an International Clinical Immersion from March 8 to April 12.  Led by professor Dr. Edna R. Magpantay-Monroe, the eight students of nursing are:  Adriana Bandy, Dorian Cabanit, Danyelle Cano, Jason Castro, January DeMello, Chelsea Lynn Mckee, Whitney Sylva and Koji Yoshida. Hosting them […]

Pastors will gather at the Divinity School on March 18 to 20 for a “Theological Consultation-Workshop on the Situation of Calamities and Disasters.” The activity reinforces the call for action on both practical and theological questions, arising especially from the recent tragedies in 2013 that rocked the Visayas and Mindnao, which continue to pose a […]

The vice president of the RTY Foundation and daughter of the late Col. Roman T. Yap, after whom the foundation was named, has expressed interest in executing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the University to formalize the ongoing incentive program for the Silliman University Reserve Officers Training Corps (SU-ROTC) that their late father had […]

Release Date: 10 March 2014 Subject: Silliman Studying Implications of Changing Academic Calendar Silliman University is undergoing a study to determine the implications of changing the academic calendar. Part of this study is a survey that is currently being administered online among Silliman students, faculty and staff to get their opinion on the matter. The […]

The 53rd edition of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop starts on May 5  at the Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village in Camp Look-out, Valencia, Negros Oriental. Twelve writers from all over the Philippines have been accepted as workshop fellows. They are Jose Jason Chancoco (Ateneo de Naga), Daniel Hao Chua Olivan Jr. (Ateneo de Manila), […]

A team of researchers from Silliman University presented their findings on the population and habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Visayas during a series of public consultations and workshops with relevant stakeholders in Region 6 held February 27 to 28 and March 3-4 at Bago City College in Negros Occidental and Guimaras State […]