Alumni, Featured
Alumni Q&A: ‘Proximity to death a lesson in living’ October 6, 2021
TRU alum Emily Bootle (BA ’14) is a funeral director, embalmer and the founder of DeathCare BC. We got in touch to learn more about…
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Faculty and staff, Featured, Indigenous Education
First woman Indigenous provincial judge in BC honoured at convocation October 1, 2021
A groundbreaker for Indigenous women in BC’s legal system is being honoured at Thompson Rivers University’s Fall 2021 Virtual Convocation on Friday, Oct. 8. TRU…
Faculty and staff, Featured, Sustainability
Tree program bolsters Coolest School status September 24, 2021
Shovels dug deep into the dirt and 10 celebration maples were planted around the Chappell Family Building for Nursing and Population Health to mark the…
Faculty and staff, Featured,
Faculty drive TRU's first academic freedom statement September 17, 2021
From their classrooms to research labs, universities are known as places where students and faculty engage in the pursuit of knowledge. Through this pursuit, students…
Alumni, Featured,
TRU alum hones his craft in Hong Kong August 31, 2021
If you want to know what Patrick Blennerhassett is up to these days, just look him up in the South China Morning Post. The 2017…
Alumni, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured,
From Ghana to Canada, with Odo (love) August 16, 2021
After changing careers and countries, Odo Nkum feels she has reached her destiny. Odo (she has asked that she be referred to by her first…
Faculty of Science, Featured,
Provincial funds double support for genomics lab August 13, 2021
Matching federal funding announced in spring, the Province of British Columbia is contributing almost $850,000 toward research at Thompson Rivers University that will enhance our…
Alumni, Featured
TRU alum TikToker just keeps on trucking August 3, 2021
Driving a haul truck has had a profound effect on TRU alum Chace Barber —and not just financially. It also helped him focus his career…
Alumni, Featured,
Open Learning gives artists freedom to study their way July 6, 2021
By Tyler Lowey Flexibility has always benefited TRU alum Christine Wunderlich. Whether she's spinning, twirling, bending entwined around a piece of fabric strung up 20-feet…
Alumni, Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, Featured,
Business alum now heads Tourism Prince George July 5, 2021
Colin Carson, TRU alumnus and CEO of Tourism Prince George Colin Carson came to Thompson Rivers University to play volleyball and left with a Bachelor…
Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured,
Renowned wildfire expert based at TRU June 24, 2021
Dr. Michael Flannigan is the new British Columbia Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at TRU, the university and Province of…
Featured, Indigenous Education, Office of the President
Connecting with words June 18, 2021
There is power in words. Thompson Rivers University President Brett Fairbairn understood this when, in 2019, he embarked on a regional community consultation to create…
Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Discovery Grants support innovative TRU researchers June 15, 2021
Six Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers received $675,000 through the federal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced today by the…
Campus News, Featured,
Choose how you take classes this fall June 14, 2021
https://youtu.be/ZlAmG94YA8Y Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is preparing to safely welcome students back to in-person classes on campus in Kamloops and Williams Lake this fall, with…
Featured, School of Nursing
ICCHA Wish to raise $1 million for nursing bursaries June 7, 2021
A well-known Kamloops philanthropist has pledged to help raise $1 million in bursaries for future nursing students. Al Patel and the ICCHA Wish Fund are…
Featured, Indigenous Education, School of Nursing
Researcher joins Indigenous health-care task force June 4, 2021
A Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Faculty of Nursing researcher joins a provincial task force to improve access to health-care for Indigenous Peoples in BC. Dr.…
Alumni, Featured
Charter alum pays it forward four decades later June 2, 2021
By Tyler Lowey Whether it be Cariboo College, University College of the Cariboo or Thompson Rivers University, the institution has always believed smaller class sizes…
Faculty and staff, Featured,
An invitation to support healing and action May 31, 2021
A message from TRU President and Vice-Chancellor Brett Fairbairn Dear students, staff and faculty, The past several days have been extraordinarily painful for many people—in…
Featured, Indigenous Education, Office of the President
Sharing in sorrow and truth May 28, 2021
A message from TRU President and Vice-Chancellor Brett Fairbairn Dear students, staff and faculty, I write to you in respect and honour to our region’s…
Faculty and staff, Featured, Open Learning
Maths prof celebrated for zero-cost textbook efforts May 28, 2021
Izabela Mazur is being recognized with the BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education for her hard work in Open Educational Resources (OER), and efforts…
