When it comes to biodiversity in soil, sometimes too much information is a bad thing. Thompson Rivers University faculty members Drs. Lauchlan Fraser and Jonathan…

Dana Eye’s groundbreaking rattlesnake research has been recognized by the Fraser Basin Council, as the Master of Science in Environmental Science student has been awarded…

Education was his last wish. James Bain of Lillooet passed away in 2019 and quietly left a profound gift upon his departure: his entire estate…

What can veterinary medicine, analytical chemistry and microbiology teach us about COVID-19? A trio of Thompson Rivers University researchers expect that answer to be: plenty.…

Three TRU researchers are sharing nearly $350,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program.  Discovery Grants fund innovations in chemistry,…

Dr. Lauchlan Fraser, professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Ecosystem Reclamation TRU is getting several high-performance tools useful for faculty and students to conduct…

A new provincially funded research chair based at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will help chart a new course in wildfire prediction and response in British…

Dr. Jonathan Van Hamme Thanks to newly funded federal research, if there is a COVID-19 outbreak in Kamloops, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers should be…

While the methods of data collection may have changed, the importance of undergraduate research has never been greater.  A dozen students have been awarded Natural…

 KAMLOOPS‑— A significant grant from the Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation (WGCFC) is helping Thompson Rivers University (TRU) upgrade facilities at its Wells Gray Research…

She studies tiny subjects: microbes found in caves that might help bats fend off a deadly fungus. And now she’s won a big award. Naowarat…

Dr. Karl Larsen, professor of Natural Resource Science, has been awarded the prestigious Northcote and Brink Professorship, and says the honour will benefit his students…

COVID-19 has led to a share of disruptions, but it hasn’t hampered our ability to adapt and to roll with the changes. What follows are just two examples from the Faculty of Science. The first…

For someone who is hit hard by COVID-19, the sound is both reassuring and terrifying. The shoop click click, shoop click click, of a ventilator…

Our lives are a mass of data: every purchase, every phone call, every Google search – they’re all collected, compiled and turned into big data.…

Health-care workers have always been unsung heroes, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put a new spotlight on the people who spend their lives saving others.…

Graduate students Shannon Mendt and Joey Chisholm have been awarded Environmental Science and Natural Resource Science Fellowships as a result of their commitment to conducting…

TRU's Dr. Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham is part of a research team looking at whether probiotics can help bats stave off the highly fatal fungus that…

Eleven students will spend the winter investigating original and important research topics that range from an exploration of the microbial communities within the permafrost of…

https://youtu.be/v2UcwjD2ujc   Whether they give you the heebie-jeebies or not, bats are necessary, and right now North American bats are under serious threat. Researchers at…