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January 18, 2026

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Oliver Storseth Special Olympics

StFX Welcomes the 2025 Special Olympics Nova Scotia Provincial Summer Games

SSHRC 2025

StFX faculty awarded over $500,000 in SSHRC Insight Development Grants

masters students 2025

Three StFX students each receive $27,000 Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s awards

symposium

International scholars converge on StFX for symposium on cinematic mothers in Latin American cultures

nserc

StFX faculty awarded almost $1 million in NSERC research funding

Will Sweet 2

StFX professor Dr. William Sweet completes two-week lecture tour in China

Kara Thompson

StFX researchers partner with local brewery to launch health warning labels on alcohol products

peter mallory

Critical friendship in the modern world: StFX sociologist co-hosts workshop, new book in works

chem national

StFX Chemistry Department leaves impactful impression at Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Conference

X Stem 9

New StFX camp sees Mi’kmaw and African Nova Scotia youth explore STEM in their daily lives

President's Gala 2025

President’s Gala celebrates 50th anniversary

Kerry Prosper and Erin Morton

StFX, The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq sign agreement strengthening collaboration

child care announcement

Partnership between StFX and the province will bring new child-care centre for local area

Black community recognition night

StFX’s Dr. Agnes Calliste Centre honours community members in 1st Black Community Recognition Night

Dr. Matthew Anderson

Pathways of the Prairies: StFX Gatto Chair Dr. Matthew Anderson wins Saskatchewan Book Award

Andy Hakin

Dr. Andrew Hakin, President and Vice-Chancellor, St. Francis Xavier University, appointed Chair, Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents (CONSUP)

Brown'nesha

“Grateful and happy that I would represent David”—Brown'nesha Willis-Glasgow receives David Bernatchez Memorial Bursary

Stephanie Power and Sarah McKenna presenting co-op awards to Marshall Hamilton, Pictou County Partnership, Hariprasad Sivapatham Anand and Cameron MacNeil

Co-op Education Announces 2025 Award Recipients

Ricardo Scrosati and Nicole Cameron

StFX Marine Ecology Lab researchers publish study on latitudinal changes of rocky intertidal Atlantic communities

Drs. Jill Murphy and Laura Lambe

StFX faculty awarded Research NS funding for work to help prevent bullying; strengthen community-based mental health care in rural Nova Scotia

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a Mi'kmaw word meaning 'human being' or 'the people.'

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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