It was stiff competition, but Elizabeth Watt from the University of Calgary took top spot at the Western Canadian Three Minute Thesis (3MT) for her presentation, “Permanent Breast…
Tempting as it may be to say “I don’t need to pay much attention to my writing because my career won’t require me to write…
The President’s Report is produced each month for presentation to the TRU Board of Governors and TRU Senate. Read the April 2015 President's Report for…
By Pam Erikson Instead of just talking about environmental concerns, TRU geography students took action through six crowdfunded projects to raise awareness, purchase needed equipment…
What is one action you can pledge this year to reduce your carbon footprint? The university’s department of Environment and Sustainability put the question to…
A new TRU-led research project, funded by Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) and Genome Canada, aims to improve the strategies for monitoring the impact of…
Thompson Rivers University issued a retraction and apology yesterday to more than 400 people for an erroneous communication advising them they had been accepted into…
Each year TRU recognizes outstanding achievement of its faculty and staff with merit awards. As well those with 10 years or more of service are…
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Pictured here is four of the 13 students participating in the year-end exhibition for students graduating from the Bachelor of Fine…
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] This is a screen grab from the video entry "Why should bioprospectors look for cures in caves?"[/caption] Do chimpanzees have culture?…
Have you ever become so engrossed in a book or story that you can almost smell what the character is smelling or feel what they…
[caption id="attachment_30481" align="alignright" width="150"] Rob Hood[/caption] TRU's dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism, Rob Hood, plans to cycle across much of Canada this summer…
First a patent, now a follow up article published in a prominent scientific journal—Postdoctoral Fellow and sessional instructor Dr. Dipesh Prema is getting a lot…
It is rare for a week to go by without the issue of animal rights in the headlines. TRU Law faculty member Katie Sykes recognized…
Thompson Rivers University was born in 1970 and named Cariboo College, despite not being located in the ‘Cariboo’. It started with roots as a vocational…
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Greg Toth, senior director for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Expansion Project, announces a memorandum of understanding with TRU on April 7,…
You have most likely been using Microsoft Word for several years now and even though you feel fairly confident with your computer skills, there are…
As part of a directed studies project, seven students from the business school's BBA program developed marketing techniques for the Kamloops Food Bank. View article…
Nursing students raise awareness of kidney health By Pam Erikson The World Kidney Day health fair was a success, thanks in part to TRU Nursing…
