More than meets the eyes April 19, 2018
What do you get when you take a legally-blind writer, a tourist from the UK and someone with a keen interest in getting to know…
What do you get when you take a legally-blind writer, a tourist from the UK and someone with a keen interest in getting to know…
[caption id="attachment_2313327" align="alignright" width="500"] Ian Robertson leads a TRU Friends of the Gardens weekly tour.[/caption] Plants scrub the air we breathe, boost our well-being with…
And the gold, silver and bronze medals go to… TRU. For the first time ever, three of TRU's respiratory therapy grads received the top three…
Thompson Rivers University has announced Dr. Brett Fairbairn as its next president and vice-chancellor. Fairbairn is a distinguished academic who has taught and conducted research…
Once a month, TRU’s School of Trades and Technology hosts an evening of shop tours and program information, with instructors in attendance to answer questions…
Dr. David Hill will be keeping a close eye on BC’s fragile rangelands, thanks to a $200,000 boost to his research program from the Canada…
Undergraduate researchers will be hard at work this summer, investigating everything from homophobia in Russia, to white nose syndrome in bats. Nineteen students have been…
Third-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing student Gabby Fisher had the honour of representing nursing and health care assistant students at a ground-breaking ceremony this…
Kamloops—Nursing and health-care assistant students attending Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will soon get their education in a new state-of-art building using modern technology and equipment to…
A few years ago, Journalism, Communication and New Media faculty member Shannon Smyrl saw an opportunity. Feeling constrained by the lack of an open, flexible…
An exceptional mentor can make a fundamental difference in the life of an undergraduate researcher, and it is clear, based on the comments from current…
Impressed by its journalistic quality, its commitment to open access and its global reach, TRU is excited to partner with The Conversation Canada, directly connecting…
Alongside their usual workload this year, five Indigenous TRU School of Business and Economics (SoBE) students have been participating in an extracurricular program that is…
Valerie Law spent a summer working with rattlesnakes, so she doesn’t scare easily. But she admits to being slightly nervous standing in front of the…
Imagine you live with multiple sclerosis—an unpredictable, chronic illness—and due to your symptom load you are unable to continue working. Aside from managing your health…
[caption id="attachment_2656274" align="alignright" width="838"] The 2018 3MT participants, joined by the community judges.[/caption] Dungeons & Dragons — is it a game, or is it a…
[caption id="attachment_2641117" align="alignleft" width="825"] Members of 42 EAU discuss the project during a meeting leading up to the BC championship. Pictured clockwise from the top:…
These days, the news is full of photos of beaches covered with plastic bottles and other litter, oceans strewn with plastic bags floating like jelly…
The work of a TRU Law student has sparked a federal proceeding that could have significant implications for the international oversight of Canadian embassy operations.…
A traditional staple of Indigenous peoples diets, bannock is also known for being a part of gatherings and togetherness. TRU’s first Bannock Bake-Off event on…