Posted on: December 4, 2013
Nina Johnson’s creative writing students often complain of writer’s block. In a new research project, Johnson hopes to help them past the block with a unique mindfulness exercise: the finger labyrinth.
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Posted on: October 9, 2013
Renowned naturalist and wildlife painter Robert Bateman performs the ceremonial breaking of ground for what will eventually be TRU’s Wilderness and Research Centre.
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Posted on: September 25, 2013
Academic departments now have a designated librarian as a primary contact for questions regarding the library’s resources and services.
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Posted on: September 24, 2013
Listen to Dr. Ann Cheeptham’s September 24 interview on CBC Radio about cave microbes and drug discovery, and watch her on Global’s 16×9 September 28 in the Ice Caves feature.
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Posted on: August 15, 2013
If you’re a particle physicist, visiting the Large Hadron Collider is like playing for the Stanley Cup.
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Posted on: August 15, 2013
When people hear the word bacteria, many of us think of germs. Bacteria and other microorganisms have gained notoriety in the media—who hasn’t heard of E. coli, staph infections, or the bubonic plague? And they’re everywhere, living invisibly in air, water, soil… and us. But did you know that less than 1% of them actually…
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Posted on: July 19, 2013
Canadian Society of Microbiologists honours a TRU student for the second year in a row.
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Posted on: July 12, 2013
Dr. Rod McCormick has been appointed to be the B.C. Regional Innovation Chair in Aboriginal Early Childhood Development.
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Posted on: September 10, 2012
Ecology major Katie Degroot is growing oats and peas this fall in the Research Greenhouse, to see if companion planting can reduce the impact of climate change on crops.
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Posted on: September 4, 2012
Timothy Crowe’s undergraduate research project asks whether cave bacteria that were able to produce new antibiotics but lost that ability when cultured in the lab could have lost the genes to do so.
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