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We are deeply saddened by the turn of events brought about by Typhoon Sendong. Dumaguete City and the neighboring municipalities in Negros Oriental are among the badly hit areas by the typhoon that has left hundreds homeless and grieving.  Let us lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters who have been affected by […]

Silliman University releases WeekUp! Christmas Edition, a digital magazine that features this month a compilation of articles on how everybody can enjoy the Holidays. WeekUp! Christmas Edition offers, among others, “12 Tips for Enjoying Christmas on a Shoestring Budget” prepared by the College of Business Administration, recipes for some favorite Christmas dishes and desserts by […]

A giant red star that hangs right at the corner of an illuminated Silliman Hall leads 78 other small colorful stars decked on acacia trees around the campus at night.  Joint lighting of the Christmas stars at the acacia trees took place in the first week of December, with the giant red star already beaming […]

Students of the High School Department of the School of Basic Education (SBE) kicked off the Christmas celebration by making friends, sharing food and giving away gift bags at a jail facility and two public schools, early this month. Community outreach during Christmas is incorporated into the Christian Living and Values Education program of the […]

 The Silliman University Student Government (SUSG) intensifies its environmental campaign with a “rent a bike” program launched right before Christmas.   Sixteen bicycle units were immediately rented out to students on November 26, right after the launching of Sikad, a project of the SUSG Environment Committee (EnviroCom) that promotes biking as an alternative mode of […]

A Silliman alumna becomes the first Filipino to receive what the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on December 5 is a “highly coveted national award” in the United Kingdom. Ms Mylene Freires, who graduated from the College of Nursing in 1992, was chosen recipient of the 2010 Mary Seacole Development Award, a recognition given […]

Close to a hundred librarians and information specialists from different schools in Negros Oriental attended the lecture-workshop on “21st Century Competency Skills” conducted on December 9 at Silliman University by the Thomas Jefferson Information Center (TJIC) of the United States Embassy. The lecture walked the participants through new media technologies and resources that are available […]

Silliman University will honor the late Col. Roman T. Yap, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees (BOT), in a groundbreaking ceremony on December 9 for a building that will bear his name. The two-storey structure will be named the Col. Roman T. Yap Hall. It is a gift from the Yap family and a […]

A junior Nursing student who hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo was one of three international students who won the 42nd National Search for the Three Most Outstanding International Students in the Philippines. Baraka Muvuka, who is the current president of the Overseas Student Fellowship of the Silliman University Church and an active member […]

A new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between Silliman University and the union for its non-academic personnel, Silliman University Staff Association (SUSA), was signed on November 29 at the Dr. Jovito Salonga Center for Law and Development. SUSA president Mrs. Araceli C. Tan, who served as chief negotiator for the staff union, expressed happiness over the […]