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IDW takes place the first full week of February to recognize and celebrate how Canadians and Canadian organizations are helping to eradicate poverty worldwide. Global Affairs Canada’s theme for IDW 2025 is Building a Better World Together.

Discover your future at StFX University! Join us for an exclusive Information Session tailored for prospective students and their families. Immerse yourself in a dynamic event featuring invaluable insights into our academic programs, campus life, and support services.

Student Research Day will be held on Wednesday, March 26 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm with poster presentations in Scholar’s Walk, Mulroney Hall.

Academic X’cellence: Sharing stories from our inspiring StFX community It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with StFX that our campus is filled with highly engaged students, educators, researchers, and leaders. Academic X’cellence shines a spotlight on members of our educational community to find out more about their unique experiences—both inside and outside of the classroom. (To see...

Perry Mahon (Austin): Symmetry, topology, and geometry

The StFX Observatory is located on West Street, just off University Avenue (building 25 to the left of West Street on the  campus map). It opened in 2018 and is mainly used for teaching, outreach, and student research projects. It houses the following instruments:  28 cm (11”) Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCT), pier-mounted  25 cm (10”) SCT, pier-mounted  70 mm refractor  60 mm H-alpha filtered...

Preliminary Honours presentations: Lydia Taylor and Nevan Keating

What does African Heritage Month mean to you? That was the question Akua Amankwah-Poku, StFX Black Student Advisor and ceremony co-emcee, asked a large crowd filling the Joyce Family Atrium in Mulroney Hall Feb. 4th for the Town of Antigonish’s African Heritage Month Launch, held in partnership with StFX. This year's provincial theme, Legacy in Action: Celebrating Black Brilliance, highlights the...

Students are integral community members who bring diversity and vibrancy to Antigonish and surrounding areas. StFX students volunteer with local community and school organizations and are employed in local businesses. StFX University, the StFX Student Union, the Town of Antigonish, the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, the RCMP, and the Antigonish Landlords Association have been exploring...

Editor’s Note: As we celebrate African Heritage Month in February, we’re proud to spotlight some of our own people, Black culture, contributions and history. Here, we meet fourth year StFX human nutrition student Olajesu Abioye. Ms. Abioye is actively involved on campus. She serves as a Black Student Peer Mentor and was a co-founder and is the current president of the Africans@X Society. She’s...

In honor of ICPSR's International Love Data Week 2025 , which has the theme of “Whose Data Is It, Anyway”, you can register for online presentations open to everyone and aimed at giving you insights into varied aspects of working with data. Whether you own your data, or work with data owned by others, you may very well find the right tool or approach that you need during a Love Data Week event...

Discover your future at StFX University! Join us for an exclusive Information Session tailored for prospective students and their families. Immerse yourself in a dynamic event featuring invaluable insights into our academic programs, campus life, and support services.

Starting Grade 9 is a pivotal moment for many students and fostering a sense of belonging can play a key role in future success. That’s why two StFX Faculty of Education professors, Dr. Jennifer Mitton and Dr. Allison Tucker, have teamed together on a research project with New Glasgow, NS high school, North Nova Education Centre (NNEC), under the leadership of principal Lia Lewis. Dr. Mitton and...

The StFX Department of Music presents the graduation recital of Miguel Dumaine, in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music degree requirements.

A Brief History… The idea of Classics for Classics has been to provide a week of serious study of some work of philosophy, theology, or literature - a work that is great and that could be meaningfully discussed in a week of class sessions. We study the classics from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and so on; see the list below. And we intend this for our classics, that is, our alumni and...

The presentation will feature the 'What Can the Women Do' research work of Dr. Robin Neustaeter (StFX Adult Education) and Sophie Gallant (StFX Public Policy and Governance) and their quest to find the stories of women in the Antigonish and Cooperative Movements in archives and oral histories.

… Future Students (On-Campus) Applications are due … BEd program is limited to approximately 100 students. Because of the high number of applicants, students admitted usually …

Join Professor Steve Baldner and other lecturers as they explore the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau during a weeklong, pressure-free, academic learning opportunity.

Join Professor Steve Baldner and other lecturers as they explore the work of John Locke during a weeklong, pressure-free, academic learning opportunity.

Myrna Gillis ’88 spent 25 years mostly as a disabilities lawyer. Then she took a big roll of the dice, leaving her law practice in 2014 to found and become CEO of Aqualitas Inc., one of Canada’s first sustainable cannabis companies, focusing on organic and environmentally responsible production. The year before, Ms. Gillis had been following the Canadian court system as it created conditions for a...