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Twenty graduates from the College of Agriculture are among the country’s new licensed agriculturists. In the Agriculturist Licensure Examination held July 29 to 31, Silliman University garnered a passing rate of 70 per cent, higher than the national passing percentage of 37.9 per cent. Silliman ranked second among all schools nationwide in the category of […]

The Cultural Affairs Committee (CAC) brings to the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium Ballet Philippines’ “The Sleeping Beauty”, the acclaimed ballet classic with choreography by the legendary Marius Petipa set to Peter Tchaikovsky’s music. Ballet Philippines artistic director Paul Alexander Morales says that the staging of a full-length version of “The Sleeping Beauty” has not been […]

A third year student of the High School Department was one of only four Filipinos to win gold in the recently concluded 1st Asia International Math Olympiad in Hong Kong. Anchelle Grace O. Ho competed in the Grade 7 Level category. She made the Filipino delegation proud when even after only being originally considered as […]

The Dr. Jovito Salonga Center for Law and Development recently organized a forum on a new ordinance regulating the use of plastics in Dumaguete City that is due for full implementation on August 28. Sixty-seven participants coming from the academe and business sector attended the forum that tackled the rationale behind Ordinance No. 231, popularly […]

The president of the Silliman University Student Government (SUSG) is currently in Japan for an international gathering which is attended by 700 university and high school students. Marian Vanslembrouck, a fourth year student at the College of Nursing, is at the World Youth Meeting (WYM) in Nagoya, Japan from August 1 to 10. She joins […]

Silliman University and the Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU) in Indonesia formalized academic ties through a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed July 30. Prof. Rev. John A. Titaley, president of SWCU, visited the University to sign the agreement with Silliman President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III. Operation for five years, the MoU highlights opportunities for […]

A professor of urban planning and sociology at the California State University discussed at a lecture at Silliman University how the province of Negros Oriental can become a “planning corridor” like Hong Kong and other popular Asian cities. Dr. Efren N Padilla was the speaker for the second leg of the 2012 General Education Integrative […]

A former faculty of the Department of English and Literature speaks on “The Father-Daugther Connection” on August 9, as part of the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center Lecture Series. Prof. Myrna Peña-Reyes is a renowned Dumaguete-based poet who once handled the Silliman University National Writers Workshop as Coordinator. Two of her acclaimed works […]

Silliman University opens the search for a new Director of the Office of Alumni and External Affairs. The position was left vacant following the retirement of Prof. Jocelyn S. Dela Cruz. Criteria 1. Must have a college degree preferably in HR/Management or in Social Sciences. A Master's degree is preferred but not required. 2. Not […]

A third grader at the Elementary Department of the School of Basic Education bagged a bronze medal at the 8th Asia Cup Stars of the Olympic Math Finals held July 26 in Hong Kong. Jose Marco Antonio contributed to the 57 medals that the Philippine delegation won in the five-country math tournament, after finishing third […]