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Kate Hach é with Chancellor Hon. Graydon Nicholas and President and Vice Chancellor Dr. M. Nauman Farooqi (Credits: STU Communications)...

Reverend and Professor Marek Słomka presented “God’s creation in the light of the Christian tradition and the scientific worldview” to...

Kevin McMurray works at the Starbucks in the Great Hall Café at St. Thomas University. (Photo by Suzanne Shah/AQ) Starting September...

The dance floor was packed as students from across STU joined the celebration, making it one of the liveliest campus events of the...

The window seat at the Abbey Café looks out over Queen St. and Officer’s Square. (Credit: The Gate/ W. Andrew Powell) On Sept. 6, the...

Student Stephanie Gagnon at her internship with Consciously Clean Refillery, where she worked as a social media management specialist and...

The Smart Start Team will start working with students in James Dunn Hall on Sept. 15. (Credit: STU Communications) The peer tutoring...

Stephanie Bell and Warren McArthur are students part of the Great Books Society. (Brianna Lyttle/TheAQ) Starting September 2025, a wing...

Welcome Week is designed for all incoming first-year students, both living in residence and living off-campus. (Credit: STU...

After more than 40 years as an investigative journalist, Gerard Ryle said that people need to “trust” journalism again so that the general public can remain informed. Ryle spoke about “Exposing Wrongdoing in the World” as part of an onstage conversation with CBC Ideas host Nahlah Ayed at the annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism...

<p>Many may know the Fredericton Member of Parliament as Jenica Atwin — however, for just one day, Atwin ditched her name and instead unveiled her drag persona: Miss Legi-slayyted. On March 10, Atwin and local drag queen Mx Amour Love posted a video showcasing Atwin’s drag transformation in support of the Drag the Vote initiative, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On March 20, the Long Night Against Procrastination (LNAP) event took place in Sir James Dunn Hall (JDH). With over 100 attendees, the most student-transited building became the epicentre for last-minute assignments, stress management and free food.  A tradition that has been running for more than five years, LNAP brings together off-campus and on-campus students [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On March 21, the sustainability initiative at St. Thomas University highlighted local business Consciously Clean Refillery as part of STU Sustainability Week, with a booth in Sir James Dunn Hall offering coupons and sustainable products. The business’ products containers have the option to be refilled once used, reducing the single use of plastics as a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Eight years ago, local drag queen Hinky Dinky recalled Fredericton drag shows happening just once or twice a month. Now, drag shows happen nearly every single weekend, with all sorts of drag performers – from queens, kings, bio queens and more – popping up and taking the stage. With drag’s popularity growing exponentially in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the Brian Mulroney Hall rotunda, St. Thomas University students, faculty and community gathered for the 21st Annual Student Ideas Research Fair held on Mar. 14. The positive energy and excitement in the room was palpable as students anticipated their presentations. STU President Nauman Farooqi shared his feelings in his opening remarks. &#8220;[It] is absolutely [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As Barbara Perry took the St. Thomas University Kinsella Auditorium stage on Mar. 13, criminology Chair Dawne Clarke introduced her as “one of the world’s leading experts on hate crimes and right-wing extremism.” Perry was there to hold a lecture for students titled &#8220;Trump Redux: Implications for Hateful Narratives and Action” as a part of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Mar. 12, Ducks Unlimited co-hosted A Taste of Wabanaki at the Conservation Centre with Cecelia Brooks. Throughout the event, Brooks taught participants to prepare three-sister’s chili, maple cornbread and sunchoke apple salad with cranberry vinaigrette. Brooks noted a “wonderful” turnout of just under 20 people, with many being international newcomers. “We had a group [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Feb. 26, professor Michael Dawson delivered the lecture &#8216;“Not even the animals die”: Canadians Confront Sesame Street, 1969-1979&#8217; at St. Thomas University. Sesame Street, the show that got the spotlight during this lecture as it did throughout the 1970s, originally tried to provide an educational head start to disadvantaged children.  Because of the show’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Duncan Philpot moved into his university dorm at the start of his post-secondary journey, he didn’t expect to meet a juggler on his floor, nor learn how to juggle from him and the club at his school. Now a professor of sociology at St. Thomas University, Philpot is gaining a reputation for the skills [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Each morning, Frederictonians and inhabitants of nearby municipalities load up their cars and head in – or out – of town for work or errands.  Sunrise is spent in a long line of idling cars waiting to get on the Princess Margaret or Westmorland Bridge, afternoons in drive-thru pileups and evenings in the same morning [&hellip;]</p>