Past Announcements
Please be advised that on Wednesday, July 24 at 5:00 pm J. Bruce Brown 3rd floor access will be restricted to allow Custodial Services to refinish the corridor flooring. Regular access will resume Wednesday at 7:00 am. Signage will be posted at access points.
Questions or concerns can be forwarded to Pierre Venedam @ @email or by calling custodial services at x 5552.
Facilities Management regrets any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you,
Facilities Management
Thirty-eight new ERA Chairs are to be appointed by the European Commission this year; one of them is Dr. Lavinia Stan from the Department of Political Science. The European Research Area (ERA) Chairs, which are financed for five years to the tune of 2.5 million Euros each as part of the HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, are senior academics with outstanding expertise in their fields of study. As the new Chair, Lavinia Stan, together with Drs. Ionela Vlase and Mihaela Herciu, will build a research team of professors, post-docs and doctoral students working at the intersection of church, state and body politics at the Universitatea Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, Romania. Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) was one of the most important Romanian philosophers, a poet, playwright and novelist. In addition to supervising students, conducting relevant research, and advising the university on its gender policy, Lavinia Stan will impart her knowledge as Editor-in-Chief of two prestigious peer-reviewed academic journals, Women’s Studies International Forum (published by Elsevier) as well as East European Politics and Societies (which appears with Sage). Meanwhile she continues her research on transitional justice for competing pasts, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada with a five-year grant.
Please be advised that on Tuesday, July 23 at 5:00 pm J. Bruce Brown 4th floor access will be restricted to allow Custodial Services to refinish the corridor flooring. Regular access will resume Wednesday at 7:00 am. Signage will be posted at access points.
Questions or concerns can be forwarded to Pierre Venedam @ @email or by calling custodial services at x 5552
Facilities Management regrets any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you,
Facilities Management
Please be advised that on Tuesday, July 23 at 5:00 pm NFSC 3rd floor access will be restricted to allow Custodial Services to refinish the corridor flooring. Regular access will resume Wednesday at 7:00 am. Signage will be posted at access points.
Questions or concerns can be forwarded to Pierre Venedam @ @email or by calling custodial services at x 5552.
Facilities Management regrets any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you,
Facilities Management
To the StFX Campus Community:
Due to an event taking place Friday, July 5th, 2024, a portion of Notre Dame Avenue, in front of Mulroney Hall, will be closed to vehicles from 10:30am until approximately 1:30pm or when the event has concluded.
Access to Cathedral Way and Parking areas P2 and P3 from Notre Dame Avenue will not be affected.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
StFX Safety & Security Services
Please note that the St. Ninian's Cathedral (P18 a & 18b) and St. Ninian's Place (P18c) parking lots will be closed to StFX parking on Friday, May 31st to accommodate an event at the Cathedral.
Please do not park in these areas. StFX Safety & Security will be ticketing vehicles found in these areas.
Please note that a portion of Martha Drive will be closed to general vehicle traffic Friday, May 24 from 8 am to 4 pm to accommodate a Special Olympics event.
Traffic control will be in place. The area that will be closed is between the two red lines noted on the map. Please follow the signs and avoid the area, if possible.
Graduate Studies
Department of Computer Science
NOTICE
In Accordance with the Regulations of the University,
Ethan Heavey
Will Make a Public Presentation of Material Related
to a Master’s Thesis Entitled
ChatNPC
Co-supervisors: Dr. James Hughes and Dr. Milton King
Committee members: Dr. Jean-Alexis Delamer
External Examiner: Dr. Kyran Cupido, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, StFXU
The presentation will take place:
Day: Friday, May 17, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Annex 23A
The presentation will be made to all interested faculty and students. Following the presentation, there will be an in-camera examination of the thesis. This examination is restricted to the supervisory committee and members of the University Committee on Graduate Studies.
The library will be closed on Friday, May 10th for a planned power outage to upgrade our electrical systems. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
For research assistance, you can get started on your own by consulting your course or program Subject Guide, or scroll through our Knowledge Base for FAQ's, tips and how-to's. You can also set up an appointment with your departmental liaison librarians or chat with a librarian from other Novanet Libraries using our Live Help chat service.
When in doubt, don't hesitate to reach out to us at @email with any specific questions you may have and we'll be sure to direct it to the most appropriate staff member when we reopen.
Due to parking area maintenance scheduled for Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, Parking Areas P9, P10, and P14 will be closed to vehicles beginning at 1:00am tonight and continuing until maintenance has been completed.
Thank you for your cooperation.
StFX Safety & Security Services
Security Operations Centre
St. Francis Xavier University
Building 5005, Chapel Square
902-867-4444
http://www.sites.stfx.ca/security/
security@stfx.ca
To the StFX Campus Community:
Due to an event taking place Friday, May 3rd, 2024, the Union Place parking area will be closed to vehicles from 5:00pm until the event has completed.
If you are parked here, please move your vehicle from the Union Place parking area by 4:30pm, Friday, May 3rd, 2024.
Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.
StFX Safety & Security Services
Security Operations Centre
St. Francis Xavier University
Building 5005, Chapel Square
902-867-4444
http://www.sites.stfx.ca/security/
security@stfx.ca
To the Campus Community,
We wish to inform you that construction crews will be on campus on Thursday, May 2nd, for road maintenance. Kindly anticipate potential delays and brief street closures while navigating around campus.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email @email.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation.
Sincerely,
Facilities Management
To the StFX Campus Community:
Due to parking area maintenance scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 24th, 2024, Parking Area P9 and P10 will be closed to vehicles beginning at 1:00am tonight and continuing until maintenance has been completed.
Also, due to parking area maintenance scheduled for Thursday, April 25th, 2024, Parking Area P14 will be closed to vehicles beginning at 1:00am tomorrow night and continuing until maintenance has been completed.
Thank you for your cooperation.
StFX Safety & Security Services
Security Operations Centre
St. Francis Xavier University
Building 5005, Chapel Square
902-867-4444
http://www.sites.stfx.ca/security/
security@stfx.ca
Our elevator will be out of service from approximately 8:30am to 12:30pm on Tuesday, April 23rd. This outage is necessary to complete electrical upgrades to our HVAC system. If this disruption will have an impact on your ability to access library resources, please contact library@stfx.ca for assistance. We regret any inconvenience.
We want to congratulate Kathleen Dolan for being awarded the Service Learning Students Research Award. Kathleen participated in Student Research Night this year. Kathleen is a Health Student who did her research on 'Primary Care Providers Perceptions on Social Prescribing in Rural and Urban Nova Scotia'.
"Social Prescribing (SP) is an approach to health where healthcare-workers connect patients to a range of nonclinical community services to support the social determinants of health (SDH). Around 20% patients seek physicians for social-related issues. And while 90% of Canadian physicians screen their patients for social needs, 36% are unaware of what services are available in their community. Evidence of SP in other countries found that it reduces physician and emergency room visits, and hospital and secondary care referrals, demonstrating the effectiveness of SP in enhancing patient health and reducing health-system pressures.
Through qualitative methodology and phenomenological design, this study aims to identify the perceptions of primary care providers on SP and explore general knowledge of and perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing SP in Nova Scotia through semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis.
Understanding perceived challenges and facilitators may help to better inform future SP models in NS and help improve the uptake and satisfaction of these models among PCPs."
We asked Kathleen what community means to her. We had to share her response.
"Volunteering and engaging with the community goes without question. I have been privileged enough to have had so many opportunities to get involved with community organizations and engage with community members. It has truly become part of who I am today. My community here has taught me to learn from and listen to others. Being involved in the community can allow you to expand your perspective, but also to reconnect with feelings of empathy and compassion towards others, something that is lost in the stressful and competitive university environment. Community is so valuable and being part of this community has taught me the power of people when you bring them together and what impact people can have by simply sharing their voices. It has truly taught me than an interconnected community has the power to do great things"
Stop by the first floor pit in the Library on Thursday April 11th 10am-11am, Monday April 15th 2pm-3pm, Wednesday April 17th 11am-12pm, or Friday April 19th 2pm-3pm to say hello to a furry friend!
See you there!
Celebrate spring with us, and take a break from studying, by potting a plant, decorating it at our "Sow & Grow Plant Potting in the Library" session!
See you on Tuesday April 9th from 6pm-7:30pm. We will be in the first floor pit of the Library. Supplies are limited!
Please be advised that St. Ninian's Street will be closed tomorrow, Thursday March 14, from 8:30 AM until 2:00PM.
If you are looking for a full-time summer job and/or employment for the 2024-25 school year, then apply to work at the library. The deadline to apply is this Wednesday, March 6th at 1pm. For more information or to apply visit https://www.stfx.ca/library/about/now-hiring-library-student-assistants.
The Centre for Employment Innovation is looking for a student or recent graduate interested in joining a dynamic and supportive team for the summer of 2024!
What Can I Expect in this Role? – The 2024 Knowledge Curation and Mobilization Intern will work alongside CEI staff to support the Nova Scotia Works system through education, engagement, and knowledge mobilization. The intern will take on a significant role curating and evaluating the relevancy of resources related to leadership, governance, and community outreach, to be shared back with the Nova Scotia Works system. This work may include creating book-review style blog posts or social media content promoting their findings. The intern may also contribute to other ongoing CEI projects such as communities of practice or course development, depending on their interests. The intern will also have the opportunity to work with CEI staff to design their own research or engagement project that contributes to the field of knowledge surrounding career and employment development.
