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The Office of Student Affairs issued a campus advisory informing students and personnel of a set of guidelines that will govern the issuance of citations for parking violations on campus. This development is a reinforcement of the University's policy on parking which was implemented last school year. The same policy employed color coding in the […]

A social news network that is enjoying a growing popularity especially among young people in the country comes to Silliman University for a round of discussion on media ethics and development. The 7th leg of the Rappler Chat Series will be conducted at the Silliman Hall on November 16, bringing together students, teachers and media […]

The first batch of graduates of the Bachelor of Library and Information Science program garnered a perfect mark in the November 2012 Librarian Licensure Examination. All four graduates passed the exam that had a national passing average of 46.67 per cent, which is equivalent to 379 passers out of a total of 812. This new […]

College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dr. Margaret Helen Udarbe-Alvarez was elected president of the Asian Christian Faculty Fellowship (ACFF)-Philippines during its 6th Biennial Conference held recently at Silliman University. ACFF-Philippines, organized in 2003, is a member of the ACFF Federation that also has chapter organizations in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, […]

Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences (IEMS) Director Dr. Hilconida P. Calumpong highlighted the need for closer regional cooperation among academic institutions in addressing threats to marine resources at the 44th Annual Federation of Institutions for Freshwater and Marine Sciences (FIMFS) held late last month in Cebu City. Dr. Calumpong was one of only two […]

The Religion and Peace Studies Department organized a peace forum on November 9 to shed light on the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) signed recently by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). It was one of the highlights of the ongoing “Peacetival”, an advocacy and constituency campaign using creative means […]

College of Mass Communication graduate (1981) Dr. Hope S. Antone is the new Program Officer of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA). UBCHEA, through its president Dr. Nancy E. Chapman, formally announced her appointment to its partner universities, including Silliman University. She assumes office effective this month. Dr. Antone will be […]

A Silliman alumnus is one of this year’s awardees of the Garbo sa Bisaya Awards, the culminating event of the 12th Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibit and Conference (VIVA EXCON) held November 8 to 10 in Dumaguete City. Mr. Paul Pfieffer, a multi-awarded Filipino-American video artist who finished elementary (1978) and high school (1982) at […]

Award-winning fictionist Ms Susan S. Lara has been appointed Director-in-Residence of the 52nd Silliman University National Writers Workshop (SUNWW) taking place next year. Ms Lara is a regular panelist at the SUNWW. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Chapter of International P.E.N., and founding member and treasurer of the […]

The A.Y. Reyes Zoological and Botanical Garden, which hosts the Center for Tropical Conservation Studies, is the most habitable for wildlife among three afforested areas on the 62-hecatre Silliman campus. This conclusion was drawn in a research entitled “Wildlife Habitat Assessment of the Afforested Campus of Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines” by Dr. Ely Alcala, […]