April 4, 2006 Source: :
http://www.stfx.ca/media/03_2006.htm Aliant Rings Up $250,000 Donation to StFX ANTIGONISH, NS - Aliant, Atlantic Canada's leading information and communications technology provider, will donate $250,000 to St. Francis Xavier University. The funds will support the development of new technology initiatives at StFX's Antigonish campus. Planning for the development of the projects will begin immediately. "Aliant encourages innovation across the region and is thrilled to be partnered with StFX," said Chuck Hartlen, Chief Operating Officer, Aliant Mobility. "We continue to embrace partnerships that contribute to the growth of intellectual capital and leadership in the development of communications technology in the region." StFX is home to more than 4,300 students and nearly 900 faculty and staff. Sophisticated information technology is an increasingly important tool on the University's campus to connect students and faculty and to foster innovative research. "Universities like StFX need to keep pace with the rapid changes in technology. This donation will help StFX be at the leading edge of leveraging technology to support learning and teaching," said Dr. Sean E. Riley, President of St. Francis Xavier University. "Aliant is an outstanding corporate citizen and everyone at StFX is grateful for this generous donation." Further information about the Aliant-supported technology initiatives will be announced at a later date.
About Aliant >From its home base in Atlantic Canada, Aliant delivers a wide variety of innovative and traditional communications services, including local and long distance telephony, wireless, Internet, e-commerce, interactive multimedia, data and managed network services, to more than two million consumers and over 80,000 enterprises. In addition to serving residential, small-to-medium sized business and enterprise customers in its home market, Aliant also serves business customers located in other parts of North America. Aliant complements its industry-leading telecommunications business with strengths in information technology solutions and knowledge-services applications. Aliant's approximately 8,400 employees build on its 100-plus year history by collaborating to deliver the highest quality of customer service, choice, and convenience. Aliant has a market capitalization of approximately $3.7 billion. On March 7, 2006, Aliant and BCE Inc. announced the creation of one of the largest regional telecommunications service providers in North America. The organizations will combine Bell Canada's wireline operations in its regional territories in Ontario and Quebec with Aliant's wireline operations and Bell's 63.4 per cent interest in the Bell Nordiq Income Fund to form a new income trust. The trust, which will have 3.4 million local access lines and over 400,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in the Atlantic Provinces, Ontario and Quebec, will be headquartered in Atlantic Canada. As part of the transaction, Bell will acquire Aliant Mobility and Aliant's DownEast Communications retail outlets. The transaction, which is expected to be completed as early as the third quarter of 2006, is subject to several closing conditions, including certain shareholder, court and regulatory approvals. For more information please visit http://www.aliant.ca.March 27, 2006
StFX Receives $67,000 in CFI Funding to Support Chemistry research Antigonish March 20, 2006 - Dr. William Marshall, Dean of Science for St. Francis Xavier University welcomes the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) investment of $67,065 supporting Laboratory Infrastructure for the Synthesis and Characterization of Enantiopure Metallopolymers a project studying potential optical properties and catalysis for chemical synthesis lead by Chemistry professor Dr. Brian MacLean. "These awards represent a strategic boost to the research capacities of St. Francis Xavier University," said Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the CFI. "It's investments like these that have transformed Canada's research landscape over the past decade and made the country a destination of choice for the world's best researchers." "This is a wonderful recognition of the excellence of a young starting assistant professor in Chemistry at StFX," said Dr. William Marshall, Dean of Science. The CFI announced today a total of $23.6 million in new funds for 35 institutions across the country. Today's announcement marks the inauguration of the CFI's new Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF). This new program, created to reflect Canada's fast-evolving research environment, was designed to give Canadian universities the added flexibility they need to both attract and retain the very best of today's and tomorrow's researchers at a time of intense international competition for leading faculty. The CFI's Board of Directors approved this investment under two funds: $19.7 million under the Leaders Opportunity Fund, and $3.9 million under the Infrastructure Operating Fund, an accompanying program which assists universities with the incremental operating and maintenance costs associated with new infrastructure projects. "StFX is one of the premier undergraduate universities in Canada. This investment is not only a boost the university's research infrastructure, it is also an investment in education and in the economic fabric of my constituency Central Nova," said The Honorable Peter MacKay, MP for Central Nova, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. A complete list of LOF projects, by university, can be found at: www.innovation.ca. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions to carry out world-class research and technology development that benefits Canadians.
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