Posted on: October 2, 2015
Steve O’Reilly recently completed his Undergraduate Research Experience Award Program, titled “The Significance of the Bellwether Distinction: A Historical Examination of Voting Behaviour in the Kamloops Region,” just in time for the upcoming federal election.
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Posted on: September 29, 2015
TRU microbiologist Dr. Naowarat Cheeptham and Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada biologist and TRU Adjunct Professor Dr. Cori Lausen have been awarded a $75,000 USD research grant from the United States Fish & Wildlife Services to advance the search for effective biological control options against Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd, the fungus that causes White Nose Syndrome (WNS) in North American bats.
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Posted on: September 28, 2015
Russian historian Dr. Wilson Bell has been awarded a prestigious Insight Development Grant (IDG) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This is another demonstration of the growing research strength at TRU.
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Posted on: September 22, 2015
Works of art by TRU faculty, students and alumni, inspired by and exploring perspectives of microbes from Dr. Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham’s drug discovery research, are on display Sept. 21 to Jan. 10 at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver.
Read morePosted on: September 17, 2015
Research Day is an opportunity for faculty members to learn about new initiatives, including the new Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, and the new Research Groups and Centres Fund, and served as the showcase for the new TRU Research Storyteller campaign, featuring TRU scholars discussing the focus and the impact of their research.
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Posted on: September 8, 2015
Apply before Sept. 15, 2015 for a $3,000 Undergraduate Research Ambassador award.
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Posted on: August 20, 2015
In the seemingly impossible battle to control the spread of the European Fire Ant, Thompson Rivers University researcher Dr. Robert Higgins says he and his team have finally found some success.
Read morePosted on: July 29, 2015
The Western Canadian Innovation Offices Consortium (WCIO), of which TRU is a member, received $1.8 million today from the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State of Western Economic Diversification.
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Posted on: July 16, 2015
TRU’s Dr. Lauchlan Fraser is the lead author on a paper published July 16 in Science, the world’s leading journal for cutting-edge research. The paper lends support to a long-standing but controversial ecological hypothesis.
Read morePosted on: July 14, 2015
TRU visual arts professor Donald Lawrence says the recent Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival accomplished even more than he had hoped, and far from winding down from the research project, he’s gearing up to expand his and his colleague’s work.
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