When over 50 experts from 14 different countries gathered at the University of Oxford for three days this September to discuss scholarship and celebrate the 250th anniversary of Voltaire’s Candide, StFX Modern Languages professor Dr. Edward Langille found himself in an unique position: two of the gathered scholars presented papers on his research work.

Dr. Langille also presented a paper at Candide is 250, the Sept. 16-18 conference hosted by the Voltaire Foundation.

One of the most important programs related to Aboriginals in Canada is happening at StFX. The extensive work of Dr. Leslie Jane McMillan with First Nations peoples – including treaty rights, law and self-governance – was ranked first out of 49 submissions in the 2006 competition hosted by SSHRC . Dr. McMillan, Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities at StFX, is reinforcing the linkages between StFX’s academic units and the Mi’kmaq people through major new funding from SSHRC ’s Aboriginal Research Program.

StFX is one of four host sites for the Atlantic Computational Excellence Network, a pan-Atlantic High Performance Computing (HPC) consortium of nine universities. Known as ACE net, the network provides HPC resources and collaboration tools. With approximately 1,500 ACE net computer processors on campus, StFX attracts leading science faculty and provides a powerful advantage to students in a range of disciplines. The value of the StFX project to date is $4.5 million, including $1.2 million in vendor in-kind support.

World-class research on climate change is happening on the StFX campus, at the Environmental Sciences Research Centre (ESRC ).

ESRC is a multidisciplinary research and post graduate training centre carrying out fundamental and applied research in Environmental Sciences. Since 2004 ESRC actively contributes to the training of future scientists through the sharing of expertise and resources among researchers and institutions to facilitate the development of leading edge research in the region. Dr. Lisa Kellman is the present Director of ESRC.

More development happens in infancy than in any other time in life. Yet much of that development is unknown because of the limited communicative ability of infants and the gap between the adult world and the baby’s.

At StFX, groundbreaking work to understand this fascinating world is going on each and every day. Psychologists, Drs. Ann Bigelow, Tara Callaghan and Petra Hauf, each operate infancy labs and design studies to help infants teach them about their world and the sense they make of it.

A timely, innovative and cross-disciplinary project that has the potential to place Nova Scotia at the forefront of medication safety in Canada has received a total of $240,000 in funding from the latest Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) grant competitions.

Education comes to life once it’s taken outside the classroom, and the earlier you have that chance, the earlier you’ll come to appreciate your field of study in a whole new way. A unique part of the education you get at StFX is the opportunity for what we call Service Learning— experiencing your area of study in the real world.

St. Francis Xavier University offers a range of high-quality graduate programs in the arts, education, and the sciences. Graduate programs are available at the master’s level in:

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