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Senator Francis N. Tolentino met with Dr. Betty Cernol McCann, Silliman University (SU) president, in a courtesy call earlier today, March 8, 2023 at the SU president’s office. Tolentino and McCann were joined by Atty. Florin T. Hilbay, SU College of Law dean. Sen. Tolentino is the chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and […]

Silliman University (SU), through the Office of Community Engagement & Service-Learning (OCESL), is sending Micah B. Saycon, a second-year Education student, and Claire J. Tenaja, a third-year Nursing student, to the Japan Summer Service-Learning (JSSL) Program to be hosted by the International Christian University, Japan this July 2023. Saycon and Tenaja will join participants from […]

Silliman University (SU) College of Law Dean Florin T. Hilbay will launch his book titled, “Bitcoin: An Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, Censorship-Resistant, Immutable, Permissionless, Decentralized, Global, Digital Monetary Network of the 21st Century” on March 9, 2023, 3:00 p.m. at the Silliman Hall, Silliman University, Dumaguete City. The book explains the evolution of […]

Silliman University (SU) ranked seventh in the February 2023 Mechanical Engineers Licensure Examination list of Top-Performing Schools and produced 40 licensed mechanical engineers. SU is ranked in the list of top schools with 40 or more examinees and with at least 80% passing percentage. SU garnered a passing rate of 81.63%. The Professional Regulation Commission […]

The Silliman University (SU) community joins the people of Negros Oriental and the rest of the country in condemning the dastardly killing of Governor Roel Ragay Degamo, last Saturday, March 4, 2023 at his residence in Pamplona. SU is deeply saddened and condemns in the strongest possible terms the senseless killing of the governor and […]

Silliman University (SU) appointed Atty. Ebenezer Y. Lim as the Interim Vice President for Finance and Operations, as announced by a memorandum from the SU President’s Office, February 27, 2023. Lim also currently serves as president of the SU Alumni Association, Inc. – Dumaguete Chapter; president of Pastoral Training of Asia; vice president of the […]

Dr. Jenny Lind Elmaco, Silliman University (SU) alumna, spoke to GMA Regional TV about being awarded by the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GlobalWIIN) the Global Exemplary Award for Education – Double Gold and the Innovative Leadership Diamond Award in 2021. Elmaco’s interview with GMA Regional TV was aired February 14, 2023. In the […]

Silliman University (SU) welcomed representatives from the Nova Scotia Health Authority and Nova Scotia-based universities, Dalhousie University and St. Francis Xavier University, to explore possible partnerships, February 20, 2023. The group met at the meeting room of the Office of the SU Vice President for Development, Enterprises, and External Affairs.

Journalists in the Philippines face the problem of facts being “rewritten or denied,” said Christian Esguerra, veteran political journalist and 2020 Marshall McLuhan Fellow, during the Marshall McLuhan Forum Series in Dumaguete hosted by the Silliman University (SU) College of Mass Communication, February 21, 2023 at the Audio-Visual Theater 1.  In his talk titled, “Democracy […]

Silliman University Student Government (SUSG) president John Christian Entrata and house speaker Enrica Marian Dinopol won “Best Presentation Content” and “Outstanding Presentation,” while Dinopol was named Outstanding Youth Leader at the 10th Asian Youth Leaders Travel and Learning Camp (AYLTLC), February 2-6, 2023 in Singapore. Entrata, a fourth-year BS Foreign Affairs student, and Dinopol, a […]