Castanet Kamloops | Van Hamme talks grant March 8, 2021
TRU receives $850,000 from the federal Canadian Foundation for Innovation for genomics research. The money will go toward the expansion of the world-class genomic research…
TRU receives $850,000 from the federal Canadian Foundation for Innovation for genomics research. The money will go toward the expansion of the world-class genomic research…
Supported by a $250,000 grant from Genome BC, TRU’s Dr. Lauchlan Fraser and Dr. Jonathan Van Hamme are leading a research team at Highland Valley…
KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University faculty members Drs. Lauchlan Fraser and Jonathan Van Hamme are leading novel research to enable more precise measurements of soil…
In October, B.C. Wildlife Park received 92 Great Basin gopher snakes and western yellow-bellied racers displaced from Lac du Bois due to the Trans Mountain…
The Vancouver Sun interviewed Dana Eye, who is working on her master's degree at TRU, studying rattlesnakes, which are a species at risk in BC.…
Academica shares the news about the new Wells Gray Education and Research Centre that was made possible by numerous donations. Read more
He's TRU's former dean of science with a passion for birds and Charles Darwin. Tom Dickinson was featured on North by Northwest's Scientist Series on…
Thompsons Rivers University’s research centre in Wells Gray Park received a $150,000 donation comes from Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation (WGCFC) and will be used…
TRU students are studying predator scat in a project with the Tsilhqot’in National Government to determine moose population projections. Read more
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…
For TRU faculty member Karl Larsen and student researcher Marcus Atkins, Western rattlesnakes are a species to be studied, especially in spring as the slitherers…
North by Northwest host Sheryl MacKay interviews TRU Faculty of Science biologist Karl Larsen from TRU explains his ongoing research with snakes and squirrels. The…
TRU's Jonathan Van Hamme writes in The Conversation Canada about why products like clothing, carpets and cookware treated with poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (toxic chemicals…
Kamloops-born, TRU alumna Alysa McCall has studied polar bears in Canada's North for nine years and is determined to protect them. She is the director…
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…
CBC British Columbia zooms in on research being done at Thompson Rivers University that looks at using seaweed from the West Coast for help in…
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…
Cave explorer Christian Stenner wrote about the Raspberry Rising cave system and included a sidebar on Dr. Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham and her research into cave…
Much has changed at TRU since Kamloops lawyer Lorianna Bennett enrolled in the Bachelor of Science program in 1990—but not everything. Still the same are…
TRU biologist Rob Higgins is studying fire ants in Naramata to test various ways of controlling the invasive creatures. Read more