A new scholarship at TRU honours late Kamloops author Joan Sherman Weir. Created by Weir’s family, the $50,000 scholarship - set at $10,000 per award…
Changing weather patterns, including higher temperatures and less precipitation, make it easier for fires to start. We’re also seeing indications that fires ignited by lightning…
Ukrainian students at TRU have created a first-of-its-kind interactive map that directs Ukrainian newcomers to resources across Canada. The online map includes information on all…
"In order to control the COVID-19 pandemic, equity and inclusion are urgently required," writes Dr. Monica Sanchez-Flores, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and…
Recently, more than 10,000 fully vaccinated travellers, who hadn’t tested positive for COVID-19, received notifications from the ArriveCAN app saying they needed to quarantine. The…
Dr. Tom Dickinson, emeritus professor and former dean of science at TRU, says waste diversion initiatives, like the one at this year’s Kamloops Daybreak Rotary Ribfest,…
Dr. Mike Flannigan, wildfire expert at TRU, says sometimes dry weather and winds alone can fan a fire. “Once you have a fire started, wind…
Matt Malone, assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at TRU, considers what the ArriveCAN app - introduced during the pandemic to allow travellers entering…
Tim Kastan, a carpentry instructor at TRU, says the Training House Project — a partnership between TRU’s School of Trades and Technology and the Canadian…
Dr. Mike Flannigan, wildfire expert at Thompson Rivers University, says he didn't think he would see such powerful fires as California’s McKinney fire for another…
More than 60 undergraduate students from the Ukraine are at 32 Canadian universities over 12 weeks this summer to contribute to groundbreaking research. Students at…
Eleven Thompson Rivers University (TRU) students in the Women in Trades Exploratory Program - which teaches skills in carpentry, mechanical, electrical and welding - rolled…
TRU Associate Professor Paul Simpson, from the Piping Trades program in the School of Trades and Technology, has created audiobooks of plumbing textbooks to benefit…
Tyler Baba, an assistant teaching professor in the School of Trades and Technology at TRU in Williams Lake, returns to his hometown to share his…
A welding camp hosted at TRU this summer lets kids and teens explore the art of welding while learning from trained professionals. Jim McCarthy, a…
This summer, TRU graduate student Alex Prudhomme is participating in a first-of-its-kind spearfishing program aimed at controlling invasive smallmouth bass that have been threatening native…
Grateful to her aunt for teaching her how to gather cedar, sage and traditional medicines, Thompson Rivers University Indigenous student Whitney Alphonse-Manuel makes candles that…
Though wildfire activity in Canada is off to a slow start this year, Dr. Mike Flannigan, wildfire expert at Thompson Rivers University, warns that a stretch of…
Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing Dean Dr. Rani H. Srivastava says increasing the number of nursing students isn't the only answer to BC's nursing…
A wildfire-generated storm, driven by a blaze on the North Arm of Great Slave Lake, built up west and southwest of Yellowknife on Tuesday (July…
