A group of 14 students and their faculty advisor from StFX’s Model United Nations Society will travel to Boston from February 11-14, 2010 to participate in the Harvard National Model United Nations. The Harvard Model UN is the largest and most extensive conference of this nature in the world. Students attend from universities around the world as delegate teams represent the various actual member states of the UN.

It’s more good news for another member of StFX’s Environmental Sciences Research Centre (ESRC). Earth Sciences professor Dr. Alvaro Montenegro has learned that following the publication of his article on afforestation, 'The net carbon drawdown of small scale afforestation from satellite observations' in Global and Planetary Change, the story has been selected for inclusion in Science for Environment Policy.

A group of StFX students, stunned by the devastation of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, have banded together to launch a campaign to raise funds to help the estimated three million people in need of emergency aid. Over the next three weeks, the StFX students hope to raise $20,000 for three organizations that the Canadian government has committed to matching donations dollar for dollar up until Feb. 12.

Fourth-year honours English student Adrianna Eyking has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2009 North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Prize (NACBS), for her essay entitled “The Symptoms of Sweet Agony: The Hysteria of Female Sexual Experience" in John Cleland’s Fanny Hill: Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure. The NACBS Undergraduate Essay Prize is awarded to the best essays in British Studies in a Canadian university course. Essays may be from any department – History, English, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, etc. – as long as the focus of the essay is in British Studies.

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.

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.