Travis McCarron, who graduated from StFX with first class honours in earth sciences in 2011, has received a $105,000 Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Research Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) to complete his PhD.
 

Christopher van Bommel, a 2013 StFX honours math graduate, is one of only 24 recipients across Canada to receive the prestigious $25,000 Julie Payette-NSERC Research Scholarship.
 

What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common?

For StFX sociology professor Dr. Patricia Cormack, they’re much more than popular symbols of Canadian identity.

In Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence, and other Stately Pleasures (University of Toronto Press, March 2013), a new book co-authored with Dr. James F. Cosgrave of Trent University, the two sociologists explore connections between these symbols of Canadian identity, media, and the Canadian state, and how they shape our understanding of being Canadian.
 

It’s been a good month for Alysha Parker. First, the Quesnel, BC native completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at StFX in public policy and social research and interdisciplinary studies in aquatic resources, and now the new grad is in Mossel Bay, South Africa to participate in a Great White Shark internship.

Two St. Francis Xavier University nursing professors are delving into research that could lead to changes in public health policy across Canada.

Research to develop new technologies and crucial guidance to reduce greenhouse gases has netted a StFX earth sciences professor and his team $1.5 million in funding.

Dr. Dave Risk and his team in the StFX Flux Lab are part of Natural Resources Canada’s ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative, a recently announced $1.48 million project involving research partners Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and industry partners Picarro, Cenovus Energy, Campbell Scientific, and Forerunner Research.

Toronto, ON, May 1, 2013 — Today, four of Canada’s top-ranked post-secondary institutions — Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount Allison, and St. Francis Xavier universities — with long-established reputations for their exceptional living/learning communities, announced that they have formed a strategic alliance. The U4 League, which is composed of four of the country’s oldest universities in three different provinces, has been established to promote and extend the institutions’ common objectives of providing students from across Canada and around the world with the highest quality undergraduate university education in a residential setting.