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PGOV Student Society – First Year Meet and Greet!

PGOV Internship Peer Mentoring

The postponed Christian Culture lecture by Dr. Gabriel Said Reynolds, Professor of Theology and Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, will be presented, virtually, on Sunday, October 22 at 7.30 pm. Dr Reynolds will speak on “To Whom does Abraham Belong? An Exploration of Abraham in Islamic Tradition.” In this lecture he will discuss how the Qur’an presents a key figure in the ‘Abrahamic religions’ (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity), Abraham, and how the Qur’an presents Islam as faithful to Abraham’s teaching. For those who cannot attend the virtual lecture, a zoom link will be provided upon request (@email)

Solar observation session during StFX Open House

This two-part session is the second of our beginner level Humanities & Social Sciences Data Organization & Analysis Series. Many web applications, research project websites, and library & archival repositories store data in relational databases. A relational database can help you keep your data separate from your analysis, improve quality control of data entry, reduce duplication of data, and improve your ability to search across large and complex datasets. Structured Query Language, or SQL, is a powerful language used to search and manipulate relational databases. This workshop teaches participants about relational databases and SQL using SQLite. You will learn how to write queries in SQL and how to use aggregate functions to combine data. It uses examples and challenges from Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and uses librarycarpentry.org materials.

This is a beginner level and the first session of our Humanities & Social Sciences Data Organization & Analysis Series. To use tools that make computation and analysis more efficient, such as programming languages like R or Python, we need to structure our data the way that computers need the data. In this workshop, you will learn good data entry practices, how to avoid common formatting mistakes, approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets, basic quality control and data manipulation, and exporting data from spreadsheets. We will focus on examples and challenges from Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and use librarycarpentry.org materials.

Version control is the practice of managing and sharing changes to documents, programming code, websites or any other files to keep track of what’s been changed, by whom, when and why. All previous versions of files are saved and you can even revert to a previous version. Git-portal sites, like GitHub or GitLab, offer many useful features to facilitate collaborative development. This is a two-part series. In this beginner level first session, we will show you how to create a repository, record changes to files, explore and restore from the recorded history and how to resolve conflicts (when one member overwrites another’s changes).

This is the second session of our two-part series. This workshop will focus on collaborative development workflows using Git-collaboration sites like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, and will demonstrate how to work with branches, issue tracking, contribute to projects using pull-/merge-requests, code-review, how to run CI/CD-pipelines and use other common features of these platforms. Prerequisite: basic experience using Git version control, participation in the 21 November workshop, or attendance at the Git lecture of a software carpentry workshop.

When working with large sets of numbers, it is often more useful to display the information graphically using histograms, scatter plots, bar charts, box plots and other depictions. This workshop teaches participants how to gain insights into data through visualization using R as the programming language. Participants will learn how to: create simple scatterplots, histograms, and box plots; compare the plotting features of base R and the ggplot package; plot with ggplot; plot time series data; and arrange and export plots. Basic knowledge of R is recommended, although not mandatory.

This is an international exchange opportunities event put on by three of our amazing inbound exchange students. Students who are interested in exchange opportunities are encouraged to attend. They will be happy to answer any questions that come to your mind!

Join fellow StFX alumni for a reception with President Andy Hakin in Ottawa!

Join fellow StFX alumni for a reception in Victoria!

Join fellow StFX alumni for a reception with President Andy Hakin in Calgary!

Join fellow StFX alumni for a reception in Vancouver!

The German 200 class would like to cordially invite you to this special event. Alan Syliboy - A Childhood in Mi’kmaki When: November 16 at 6:00pm Where: Barrack Auditorium, Mulroney Hall Please join us for a unique event.

Economics Research Seminar: Dr. Patrick Withey (StFX) "Economic Impact of Climate Change with Harvesting Interactions in Quebec Forests: A PICUS-LANDIS-CGE Model Analysis"

Economics Research Seminar: Dr. Greg Tkacz "The Impact of St. Francis Xavier University on the Nova Scotia Economy, 2017-2022"

A Seminar Discussion with Dr. CONALL CASH, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow

Book Launch for Russiagate Revisited: The Aftermath of a Hoax by Dr. Stephen Marmura

Kevin Hewitt (Dalhousie): Spectroscopic disease detection.