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… highlighting new acquisitions to StFX Library Special Collections March 8, 2022 Left … highlighting new acquisitions from the library’s John Stewart Collection. These are … highlighting new acquisitions to StFX Library Special Collections March 8, 2022 Left …

On two consecutive Sundays in March, the StFX Art Department welcomed groups of a dozen staff, faculty, students and community members, who, using dozens of fresh local eggs, were introduced to the ancient Ukrainian art of pysanky, or egg-decorating. The beginner workshops were held to raise money to support refugees and citizens affected by the invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24...

… undergraduate level: StFX Rankin School of Nursing honours students all receive research … have the opportunity to work closely with faculty whose research programs are directly in … undergraduate level: StFX Rankin School of Nursing honours students all receive research …

Understanding your own potential can help ignite both your own and the potential of others. Those were the words of advice StFX honorary degree recipient Dr. Minh Kauffman, an innovator in international educational exchange and community development for over 50 years, left with the StFX Class of 2022 during StFX Spring Convocation held May 8 as StFX awarded degrees and diplomas across all four...

Over a dozen StFX students spent their summer making a difference in health research. The students, recipients of the Scotia Scholar Undergraduate Research Award from Research Nova Scotia, investigated topics from food insecurity experienced by Nova Scotia refugees to the experiences of participants enrolled in controlled human infection model trails. Award recipients included Julia Shields, Anna...

… StFX Athletics welcomes Sports Hall of Fame 2022 … The Class of 2022 inductees includes three athletes: Fred Perry (basketball), Richard … if not the most, successful female student-athlete in any sport to wear the blue and white …

St. Francis Xavier University will celebrate the Class of 2022 and will award an honorary degree to Minh Kauffman, an innovator in international educational exchange and community development whose contributions have spanned over 50 years, when it celebrates Spring Convocation 2022 on Sunday, May 8 with both morning and afternoon ceremonies. Several faculty members will also receive major honours...

Six members of the StFX Rowing team recently competed at the Canada Games, held in the Niagara region of Ontario. The Nova Scotian rowing team had its best-ever showing, earning five medals in competition and placing third overall. StFX students’ residency renders them eligible to represent Nova Scotia at the Canada Games; thus, Peter MacGregor (Thunder Bay, ON) and Jack Petrunick (St. Catharine’s...

… Feels Like Home: StFX Welcomes the Class of 2026 September … this place, something you feel when you come on this campus, and when you see how … Feels Like Home: StFX Welcomes the Class of 2026 September … Feels Like Home: StFX Welcomes the Class of 2026 …

The ability to push themselves as individuals and as learners was just one of the benefits of spending the summer doing hands-on research work under the supervision of a StFX faculty member, says this year’s recipients of the University Council for Research (UCR) award. The UCR annually provides funding for several undergraduate student research awards. This year’s recipients are Brynn Webber...

“This is your moment.” That was the message StFX President Dr. Andy Hakin delivered to members of the incoming Class of 2022, who gathered in the University Chapel on September 18, clad in black academic robes, for the Xaverian Welcome ceremony. The ceremony is one of three important institutional occasions in the life of StFX, where all new students are invited to commit to a life of thought and...

When a group of StFX physics students started planning an Atlantic undergraduate physics and astronomy conference, they decided to aim big—and the results have been more than impressive. The students have attracted 2018 Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland; NASA engineer and advocate for diversity and inclusion in science, Renee Horton; StFX alumnus Allan H. MacDonald, winner of the Wolf Prize and...

It was a celebration of much good news on the StFX campus March 4 as it was announced StFX’s Coady Institute is leading a collaborative five-year project to strengthen gender equality and women’s leadership opportunities around the world. Sean Fraser, Central Nova MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, was on campus for a special funding announcement of nearly $10 million from...

… Month 2020 launched in Antigonish during ceremony at StFX January 23, 2020 StFX student … and Community.”  “Together, we gather to honour and celebrate the many contributions … A flag raising ceremony will be held at Town Hall on Feb. 3 at 11 a.m.  The launch also …

All those entering the lobby of Mulroney Hall on the StFX campus on January 27, 2020 had an amazing opportunity to learn and talk about Holocaust education with a number of StFX students. Students from psychology professor Dr. Karen Blair’s Psyc 441 held an all-day event for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, displaying their final projects for the course, and being on hand to speak with all...

How do we imagine an energy transition? That was the question participants at a recent Energy Transition School, hosted by StFX’s Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership on Feb. 28-29, 2020, focused on over two days at the multi-session event directed by three scholars, Dr. Jeff Diamanti of the University of Amsterdam; Dr. Imre Szeman, University of Waterloo; and Dr. Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia...

Getting together for a meal with friends and family over the holidays is a time-honoured tradition. This year, that circle grew a little wider as a group of StFX international students and members of the local community connected over Christmas through a new program at StFX called Home for the Holidays. The StFX Office of Internationalization arranged the inaugural Home for the Holidays program to...

StFX X-Women basketball head coach Lee Anna Osei hasn’t let the pandemic slow her down. In fact, she established and founded the Black Canadian Coaches Association (BCCA), a newly formed not-for-profit organization committed to providing a platform for Black Canadians in sport. “I wanted some way of filling the voids for People of Colour in our sport community at the grassroots, collegiate, and...

Eight StFX students—recipients of the Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership’s inaugural Xaverian Leaders Micro-Grants—are spending their summer working on initiatives designed to bring the Xaverian community together during a particularly isolating time. In all, the McKenna Centre awarded eight grants of $2,500 each to returning StFX students for projects that will help bring the community together...

Six StFX students will have the invaluable opportunity to work on projects this summer that will help provide innovative solutions to needs in their communities as recipients of the 2020 Wallace Family Internship. Thanks to the generous support of the Wallace Family Entrepreneurship Fund, StFX Extension Innovation and Enterprise Centre has awarded the 2020 Wallace Family Internships to two...