If a photo is worth a thousand words, TRU told quite a story in 2019. Rather than write what would be a very, very long read, we’ve compiled highlights from the past 12 months so you can enjoy the year in photos instead.
January 9
Jaida Wallat got a chance to meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a visit to TRU’s School of Trades and Technology. She also walked him through a demonstration of the hands-on learning that occurs in trades and technology programs.
January 24
Faculty members Dawn Farough, Wilson Bell and Ulrich Scheck spearhead the development of a master’s program in human rights and social justice.
January 24
The School of Trades and Technology’s Training House project partnerships won gold at the 2019 Okanagan Housing Awards of Excellence.
January 30
Our campus community penned signs in support of mental health awareness as part of #BellLetsTalk day.
January 31
Keynote speaker Jeff McLaughlin kickstarted the 12th annual Politics, History and Philosophy conference.
February 7
WolfPack volleyball left the Tournament Capital Centre and kicked it old school in the Gymnasium for Retro Night.
February 7
Criminal lawyer Kyla Lee presented to a full room of law students and Kamloops community members on the complexities of Cannabis Legalization and Impaired Driving at the Society of Law Students Conference Committee’s Pursuing Progress: Transforming Law in the 21st Century event.
February 11
Faculty member Mark Rakobowchuk received a $200,000 grant for his Extracellular Vesicles and Endothelial Dynamics Lab.
February 12
Vernie Clement discussed the student services offered at Cplul’kw’ten.
March 22
Thumping bass, crowds of students and magazine clippings descended on the Campus Activity Centre for the Collage Party.
March 26
Federal Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion Mary Ng touched down in Kamloops to tour TRU.
March 28
Astrobiologist and TRU alum Bruce Daimer presented on his paradigm-shifting research on the origin of life.
April 5
A typical practicum day at Royal Inland Hospital with the nurses of tomorrow.
April 5
Third-year law student David Barroqueiro won a new award for his work developing legal apps, which he hopes will improve access to justice for all.
April 17
James Gordon of the Sustainability Office offered up his tips on at-home composting in celebration of Earth Day.
May 23
Food truck Thursdays were always a hit.
May 28
Students, staff, faculty and the TRU community gathered for Envision TRU consultations, to determine the course of the university’s next 10 years.
May 31
TheFaculty of Science’s Matt Reudink and his graduate and undergraduate research students spent the summer studying birds on campus and throughout the region. They measure and track physical traits and behaviours of birds inhabiting rural to urban environments, to determine how different species are responding to increasing urbanization.
June 4
Executive Director of TRU’s Office of Indigenous Education Paul Michel performed at the 2019 Indigenous Grad ceremony.
June 5
Guests welcomed incoming President Brett Fairbairn at a lunch-time social to celebrate the occasion.
June 14
Years of hard work paid off as arts students celebrated spring convocation.
June 26
Kamloops businessman and generous TRU donor Ken Lepin confirms the value of a trades education for a room full of students, before distributing student awards.
July 17
Early Childhood Education got a $575,000 boost and a visit from Federal Minister Katrine Conroy.
July 19
Faculty member Bonnie Fournier was awarded a $600,000 project grant to continue her research into reducing HIV-related stigma in school children in Northern Uganda.
July 26
The School of Trades and Technology hosted a girls carpentry camp, where participants built a new playhouse for the on-campus Cariboo Child Care kids.
August 2
Youth from across BC graduated from a welding camp hosted by the School of Trades and Technology to get a taste of this in-demand trade.
August 12
Peter Poeschek received the Chair Leadership Award for 20 years as the School of Trades and Technology’s construction trades chairperson.
September 3
Campus was buzzing at the Graduate Student Orientation 2019.
September 3
Students started off the semester on the right foot at Orientation 2019.
September 6
Students and the Kamloops community celebrated the new school year at the annual Back to School BBQ.
September 16
TRU campus housing buildings got new names.
October 10
TRU launched Limitless, its largest-ever fundraising campaign of $50-million.
October 16
Progress on the $37.2-million Nursing and Population Health Building. Estimated completion: fall 2020.
October 17
Oh, deer!
October 19
The first Undergraduate Circle for Knowledge Makers of 2019.
October 19
Prospective students, parents and community members joined the Open House.
October 23
Students and researchers get a new state-of-the-art weather station installed on campus, located in Kamloops’ unique bunchgrass ecosystem.
October 24
Kamloops put on a spectacular show of fall foliage as temperatures dipped.
November 1
BC Attorney General David Eby presented to a full room of law students during Access to Justice Week.
November 15
School District No. 73 took over the Tournament Capital Centre with more than 1,000 students in attendance for a women’s WolfPack volleyball game.
November 28
Students received $775,000—the most ever awarded—in donor-funded awards at the TRU Foundation Awards ceremony.
December 3
Campus deer stole the show (again).
December 3
TRU Student Union’s inaugural Holiday Fest lit up one of campus’s Ponderosa Pines, with the TRU community contributing handmade and unique decorations.
And that’s a wrap! With classes and exams done for the year, and campus appointed with it’s own towering Christmas tree, we hope you enjoyed our 2019 year in photos.
