Posted on: March 2, 2015
Sarah Whitehouse will present her research: Sustainability in BC’s ranching community: An economic evaluation for carbon offset potential, during the Masters of Science in Environmental Science Showcase on March 5, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Posted on: February 19, 2015
Thompson Rivers University has a new, official Strategic Research Plan (SRP)—a blueprint for research for the next five years. The plan identifies five key areas of collaborative excellence and emerging strength, while encouraging research in all disciplines.
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Posted on: February 12, 2015
Employee retention — it’s a phrase often heard within the tourism industry, and a concern Bachelor of Tourism Management student Sarbjit Gill decided to investigate through his successful Undergraduate Research Experience Award Program (UREAP) project.
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Posted on: February 12, 2015
Anthropologist Dr. Karl Hutchings was a guest on CBC’s Quirks & Quarks on Feb. 7. Hutchings made a remarkable discovery upon analyzing obsidian artifacts, providing evidence to show that humans used spear throwers as early as 279,000 years ago.
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Posted on: February 11, 2015
Do certain plants get fevers? And if the answer is yes, which plants, and why? Dr. Cynthia Ross Friedman and a team of researchers have brought some clarity to those questions with their groundbreaking findings published on Feb. 9 in Nature Communications, one of the highest-ranked multidisciplinary journals in the world.
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Posted on: February 10, 2015
TRU will host the 3MT Western Regional Championships in April. Up to 16 graduate students from Western Canada will compete by testing their ability to succinctly explain their work to a non-specialist audience. The winner advances to the Canadian championship.
Read morePosted on: January 29, 2015
Feb. 10 is the deadline to apply for the TRU Sustainability Research Grant. Funded by TRU’s Office of Environment and Sustainability, it is a prestigious award with an annual value of $10,000.
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Posted on: January 19, 2015
Arts alumna Ashley Berard is expanding on her UREAP research (the use of online forums and support groups to navigate an illness) for her master’s thesis in Sociology at the University of Victoria.
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Posted on: December 15, 2014
Whose Culture is it, Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities is one more example of TRU’s growing body of work that has developed from the 12-year Community-University Research Alliance (CURA).
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Posted on: December 2, 2014
In his NSERC Discovery Grant-funded study, Dr. David Hill intends to find ways to use environmental data that is already being collected to better understand how urban systems react and behave during extreme weather events.
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