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Real research experience StFX strategic plan for research and creative works 2019-2025 StFX has an established tradition of research and creative works across all areas of the University’s academic reach, covering a range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields in the humanities and social sciences, natural, physical, and engineering sciences, management sciences, and health sciences, as...

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...

… to an online community for international students, to sexual violence prevention training, 2020 Wallace Interns working on projects that … Innovation and Enterprise Centre has awarded the 2020 Wallace Family Internships to …

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...

A unique collection of art works created behind the barbed wire of a German Nazi concentration camp and extermination centre has received support from a group of StFX students. Earlier this year, 12 StFX students, accompanied by faculty leader and psychology professor Dr. Margo Watt, participated in an Immersion Service Learning experience to Germany and Poland, where among other places, they...

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...

Last week, 17 StFX students travelled to Halifax to take part in the Royal Canadian Navy’s new Canadian Students at Sea program. This initiative, organized by professors Adam Lajeunesse (Brian Mulroney Institute) and Jamie Levin (Department of Political Science), in partnership with the RCN’s Strategic Outreach team, offered undergraduates in military history and security studies a chance to...

Senior students—soon-to-be-graduates clad in black robes—took time to celebrate the spirit of community, to reflect on their journey at StFX so far, and to recommit to the pursuit of excellence as members of the Class of 2021 gathered at venues across campus on March 28 to participate in the Xaverian Farewell Ceremony. The ceremony, a traditional farewell for graduating students, bookends the...

Patti-Anne Tracey and Victoria Morley, two fourth year students in StFX’s Gerald Schwartz School of Business, have been recognized as exceptional business students and future leaders. Each has been awarded $30,000 as a 2020-21 recipient of the Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies. The two fourth year StFX students are among nine business students, studying at Atlantic Canadian...

An important new initiative highlighting Black student voices and racial justice and resiliency will take place at StFX this year as part of the annual Dr. Agnes Calliste African Heritage Lecture Series organized by the StFX Sociology Department. Along with the annual lecture, scheduled for Feb. 24, this year’s program will open on Thursday, Feb. 11th with the inaugural Dr. Agnes Calliste Black...

A unique place in the educational world is found inside the Angus L. Macdonald Library on the StFX campus, where the Fr. Charles Brewer Celtic Collection—one of the premier collections of its kind in North America—is providing an important resource for StFX’s Celtic Studies Department and many more from international scholars to musicians, authors to playwrights. Just recently when The Highland...

StFX science students will have even more opportunity to participate in undergraduate research and to learn new skills thanks to a generous gift of $100,000 the university has received from the Marangoni Family, which includes longtime StFX chemistry professor Dr. Gerry Marangoni. The donation from the Marangoni Family to the Chemistry Department will be used to create a fund to support student...

… That Lies Ahead ,” explores how on May 25, 2020, the world shifted. In the aftermath of … Student Success (CABSS) Black Leaders Awards, and closing remarks by StFX religious … studies professor Dr. Ronald Charles, a scholar of the African diaspora.  Dr. Ron …

It was an exciting end to the year for StFX English professor Dr. Kailin Wright who saw her new monograph Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre (McGill-Queens UP, 2020) listed on The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Books in 2020, an annual feature The Hill Times compiles on the best non-fiction books of the year. “It is very exciting to see Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre recognized in...

Eric Sutton, a graduating StFX B.Sc. in human kinetics student from Peterborough, ON, has won the cost of his X-Ring by participating in an annual survey for senior students that gauges student satisfaction and experience. All who participate are eligible for a prize draw to win the cost of their X-Ring. The survey is administered by the Academic Vice-President and Provost’s office and the Office...

The StFX Class of 2021—a group of graduating students who persevered and thrived in a year like no other—was celebrated May 7, 2021 as StFX welcomed nearly 945 new alumni and honoured Nova Scotia Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang and Sean Boyd, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, with the degree Doctor of Laws honoris causa, during Spring...

Nova Scotia high school students have many great reasons to attend the Nova Scotia Secondary Schools’ Association (NSSSA) annual provincial conference, Refresh 2021, taking place May 22-23, virtually from the StFX campus. Chief among them is that the student-led conference focuses on promoting leadership skills and community, in a warm, inclusive atmosphere, and it’s a lot of fun, say conference...

After seeing a viral social media tweet from a mother in Iqaluit, Nunavut, exposing the high prices of school supplies, two StFX students decided to see if they could do something about it. Brennah Agnew and Emily Matthews, who both graduated in May (Ms. Agnew with a BA in aquatic resources, public policy and social research and Ms. Matthews with an honours BA in philosophy) collected over $800...

Allie Cregan wants to help India breathe, and so far the fourth year human kinetics StFX student from Ottawa, ON has helped raise over $550 for COVID-19 relief efforts in that country, hit hard by the global pandemic. “When I heard about the shortage of oxygen equipment and medical supplies in India and the surplus of COVID-19 cases, I knew that like myself, many were devastated by the rising...