Center for Catholic Education. Michael Graham, S.J., Xavier's President, has committed the University to engaging students intellectually, morally, and spiritually - with rigor and compassion - toward lives of solidarity, service, and success. This is Xavier's Catholic and Jesuit identity and heritage.
On Saturday, Japan's Mount Ontake volcano erupted without warning, surprising several hundred nearby hikers. Plumes of volcanic gas and ash overtook the fleeing hikers and buried nearby lodges and outbuildings. Though most of the people on Mount Ontake that day were able to escape.
hazards. Seismicity and ground deformation, in concert with past geologic history, helped forecast the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and helped save 10âs of thousands of lives prior to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, among others. Prior to the 2005 activity at Mount St. Helens monitoring equipment recorded a large increase in