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Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 3:14 pm
When your research is devoted to helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it’s exciting when the technologies you’ve developed gain momentum. In Dr. Dave Risk’s Flux Lab on the StFX campus, no less than five major projects are ready to take wing. Collaborations stretch from China to Havre Boucher, NS, and involve millions of research dollars.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Dr. Grant Ferguson has once again been highlighted for his research expertise. Just days after an article quoting his expert commentary appeared in Discovery News, the online news site for the Discovery Channel in the United States, the Earth Sciences professor and Environmental Sciences Research Centre (ESRC) researcher’s recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters was chosen as an American Geophysical Union highlight.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 10:38 am
Dr. Ricardo Scrosati, a StFX professor and researcher, has been successful in having his prestigious Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Marine Ecology renewed for a second five-year term. The Canada Research Chairs program invests $300 million per year to attract and retain some of the world's most accomplished and promising minds. Dr. Scrosati’s new Tier 2 CRC will run from 2009-2014 and will bring $500,000 to StFX.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:15 am
A team of honours finance students from the Schwartz School of Business and Information Systems competed in the third annual CFA Atlantic Investment Research Challenge held recently. The Schwartz School of Business team representing StFX included l-r, Rory MacDonald, Brett Stevenson, Corbin Bouree and Jeremy de Koe.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:47 am
Marielle Lesperance of Ottawa, ON and Sara Klapstein of Antigonish, NS, both StFX BSc honours students in Physics and Environmental Sciences, will be among the 12 Environmental Sciences Research Centre (ESRC) researchers, graduate and undergraduate students from StFX presenting their research at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco from Dec. 14-18.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 10:50 am
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded St. Francis Xavier University $47,346 to support a cutting-edge research infrastructure project led by earth sciences professor Dr. David Risk.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Dr. Truis Smith-Palmer is a science champion. And now she has an award to recognize it.
The long-time StFX chemistry professor was honoured recently at the seventh annual Discovery Awards for Science and Technology, winning the prestigious Science Champion Award at the ceremony held November 26th at The Westin Nova Scotian, Halifax.