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… he could make a difference.  He worked as a summer camp counsellor for L’Arche Antigonish, and … every second week to participate in various sports. “I’m just trying to create …

StFX students will be out in full force on Saturday, Sept. 7th raising funds for Antigonish Affordable Housing Society as part of Charity Day 2024, a key part of StFX Orientation Week and the X-Fest Experience. “This day is all about giving back to the community that welcomes us so warmly,” says Students’ Union president Francisco Chang. Mr. Chang says before starting Charity Day, the Students’...

Students in StFX’s Gerald Schwartz School of Business had opportunity to put their knowledge into action on Friday, November 3rd, when the students in the BSAD 451: Cases in International Business course hosted the "Schwartz International Business Case Competition" for the second year in a row. Teams of first and second-year BBA students spent the week prior to the internal event analyzing a case...

Joy, and a sense of accomplishment, could readily be felt throughout the Charles V. Keating Centre on Dec. 2 as St. Francis Xavier University graduated nearly 300 students and awarded an honorary degree to celebrated Canadian playwright, acclaimed theatre director, and University of Toronto assistant professor Djanet Sears during Fall Convocation 2023. Another special highlight of the ceremony...

… the Frank McKenna Centre and as an academic tutor. One of her references commenting about … in Antigonish. She also carves out time to tutor and acts as both a notetaker and a …

Academics from across the Maritimes working in Hispanic studies will converge on StFX this weekend as the Department of Modern Languages hosts the 2023 Annual Symposium of the Maritime Association of Hispanists (AHPA-Asociación de los Hispanistas de las Provincias del Atlántico) on November 17-18. AHPA is a regional organization composed of professors teaching Spanish and Latin American Studies...

With gorgeous pieces of fabric spread out on workstation tables and irons and measuring tapes in full use, the interior of KIKNU, StFX’s Indigenous Student Centre, hummed with fellowship and activity Nov. 22 and Nov. 23 as StFX Indigenous students gathered to make their very own ribbon skirts. It was part of a two-day ribbon skirt/shirt workshop hosted by Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey in partnership with...

“Today is an incredible day.” With those words, StFX Senior Class co-president Abbey Mombourquette aptly summed up the feeling of energy and excitement, pride and joy, on December 3—the Feast of St. Francis Xavier—as over 950 senior StFX students received their much-coveted and long anticipated X-Rings, the unmistakable emblem that links Xaverians worldwide. “Waiting here today on the brink of...

Two teams of StFX computer science students gained valuable skills and tested their knowledge when they competed recently in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the Northeaster North American region. This international competition is designed to challenge students on their problem-solving capabilities and their ability to implement their solution in code. Each of StFX’s...

Heartfelt joy, many smiles, and a feeling of deep resilience filled StFX’s MacKay Room, Bloomfield Centre, Feb. 1, 2024, as the Town of Antigonish’s African Heritage Month launch took place celebrating that very theme. ‘Our Smiles, Our Joy, Our Resilience as African Nova Scotians’ is this year’s provincial theme for African Heritage Month. “This is a celebration. This year’s theme tells it all,”...

Education needs to grow with the world we’re in, so in 2019, the StFX Department of Adult Education created and launched a part-time, online Master of Education (M.Ed.) program with a Concentration in Adult Education and Health, which has now been transitioned into a Master of Adult Education (M.Ad.Ed) concentration offering. Participants have come through the doors in droves— nurses, occupational...

StFX Gerald Schwartz School of Business student Inka Mittler is the first recipient of the Social Entrepreneurship Fund. A collaboration with the StFX Discover Box and the Gerald Schwartz School of Business, this newly established fund supports burgeoning social entrepreneurial students who need modest start-up funds to bring their business plans to life. Initiated by StFX alumnus and entrepreneur...

Two days before International Women’s Day, a special multigenerational moment between Mi’kmaq women took place at StFX. At an event to celebrate the awarding of two St. Martha Indigenous Mi’kmaw Education and Nursing Scholarships, a Bachelor of Education student had the chance to meet and converse with the honouree of her award. The scholarships were introduced by the Sisters of St. Martha in 2022...

The StFX Engineering Society recently won the first ever Atlantic Tournament, hosted by the Atlantic Council of Engineering Students (ACES), competing against all other Atlantic universities, including some schools that are 16 times its size. The tournament was a social media-based competition with a series of fun but competitive tasks, including a mannequin challenge video seeking student and...

ANTIGONISH, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA – St. Francis Xavier University celebrates an announcement made today by the federal government of $1.2 million in federal funding for StFX researchers to continue and enhance their important work. This funding will also allow students to participate and play an important role in research at StFX in years to come. StFX faculty were successful in receiving two Canada...

… Dr. Christine Schwarzman “Thank you very much for this honour,” Dr. Christine Schwarzman said as she told convocation how inspiring it has been to experience the … facilitate student learning. She teaches and does research in the areas of settler …

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ever more pervasive, both at universities and in everyday life, a recent four-day workshop at StFX focused on this timely and important topic. The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) East brought together 20 participants from around the Atlantic region and the U.S. for a four-day workshop from April 29 to May 2 that outlined the basics of...

When I joined Co-op at StFX, I had no idea what to expect. I had talked to a few industry professionals in high school, and when I told them I was going into business, many of them told me that I should join the co-op program if I had the chance. They explained to me that the companies they work for prefer to hire people who have done internships or co-ops with them because it acts as a trial to...

Before I ever set foot at St. FX, everyone asked me the same question: “What do you want to do when you’re older?” Although this seems like one of the easiest questions to answer, it’s actually one of the hardest, due to the disconnect between theory in the classroom and application in the real world. I firmly believe the St. FX Co-op Program bridges this gap by providing meaningful, paid exposure...

A StFX biology professor has found encouraging news on the recovery of intertidal mussel stands three years after the severe 2021 heatwave in British Columbia. Dr. Ricardo Scrosati conducted surveys in the Vancouver region in June 2024 where an intense heatwave in summer 2021 affected the Pacific Northwest region of Canada and the United States. The heat wave caused the mass mortality of billions...