By Margaux Lynz Peña, AB History 4/ FOURward Agenda CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—On Saturday, January 14, 2023, American Corner CdeO celebrated International Volunteer Day with participants from the Xavier University Ateneo Diplomatic Corps at the XU Library. The activity was initiated by the American Corner CdeO, in partnership with FOURward Agenda–XU...

By Audrey Yvonne E. Cinco, Intern, OICN The Xavier Ateneo team, composed of Dr Hercules R Cascon, Dean of the College of Engineering and Project Lead of the geoDRR project in Xavier Ateneo, Engr Dexter S Lo, Vice-President for Social Development, and Engr Jefferson R. Vallente Jr, Research Coordinator for the College of...

By Hannah Joy T Luyao, Office of the President L-R: VP Admin Edison Sasoy; Executive Assistant to the President Libby Abesamis, DPA; OVPHED Juliet Dalagan, PhD; XU President Father Mars Tan, SJ; VP for Social Development Engr Dexter Lo; VP for Basic Education Dulce Dawang, PhD; Treasurer Engr Lennie Ong On January 25, 2023,...

by Keziah Loucille Mallorca | Social Involvement and Advocacy Program | kmallorca@xu.edu.ph #XUTabangMisamis Team with the beneficiaries from Brgy. Taguima, Tudela, Misamis Occidental December 24, 2022. What was supposed to be a bright, festive celebration with loved ones became a dark, traumatic experience for the victims of the flash flood and...

By Communication and Promotions Office Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan kicks off the second semester of schoolyear 2022-23 with the schola brevis in the first week starting January 16, 2023. The schola brevis, Latin for short class, is a Jesuit tradition of holding classes briefly. In a memo on January 16, 2023,...

The Xavier University Social Development Office, Engineering Resource Center (XU-ERC), and the Manila Observatory conducted monitoring site visits of the automated weather systems (AWS) networks installed in Cagayan de Oro areas on November 22-26, 2022, under a partnership between XU and Manila Observatory on High-Definition Clean Energy, Weather, and Climate...

The Universitas Indonesia’s (UI) GreenMetric World Sustainability Ranking ranked Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan as one of the ten (10) Philippine Universities that led the country’s academic sector in the promotion of the reduction of carbon footprint towards developing environmentally-friendly universities. In comparison to other ranked Philippine schools (Table 1),...

Carl Ian John Hallazgo | Biology Department | challazgo@xu.edu.ph Dr. Astrid Sinco, the McKeough Marine Center (MMC) director and the Biology Department chairperson of Xavier Ateneo, was the lone representative of the Philippines among the 31 delegates chosen from 20 different countries to attend the United Nations World Ocean Assessment last...

Carl Ian John Hallazgo | Biology Department | challazgo@xu.edu.ph The Biology Department’s faculty members and graduate students joined the 27th Philippine Society for Microbiology, Inc - Mindanao (PSM - Mindanao) Annual Convention and Scientific Meeting with the theme, “PSM-Mindanao, ENGAGE: Enhancing Networks in Government, Academe, General Industries and Environment Sector for...