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
TRU's Karl Larsen shares some slithery insights into the seven snakes of the Thompson-Okanagan. Read more
CBC Daybreak in Kamloops is doing a series on what TRU researchers are doing this summer. First up: the buzz about bees. Read more
Ten TRU students have been awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), with each receiving a minimum of $5,625,…
KAMLOOPS – Five Thompson Rivers University researchers received $579,240 over five years through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced…
Five Thompson Rivers University researchers received $579,240 over five years through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced this week…
Interior university coalition funds disaster prevention research initiatives KAMLOOPS—B.C.’s forests and watersheds have taken a beating over the past few years. Wildfires, floods, landslides, and…
[caption id="attachment_2950965" align="alignright" width="393"] Dr. Rob Higgins, associate professor, biology.[/caption] What is the point of a tick? According to Dr. Rob Higgins, associate professor of…
Humour can go a long way in the classroom, even during a serious exercise like dissecting a pig’s heart in a biology lab. “Mirror…
Armed with bear spray, microbiologist Naowarat ‘Ann’ Cheeptham is searching for hardy, less-studied bacteria that could play a role in stemming the antimicrobial resistance crisis.…
Armed with bear spray, microbiologist Naowarat ‘Ann’ Cheeptham is searching for hardy, less-studied bacteria that could play a role in stemming the antimicrobial resistance crisis.…
The average 14-year-old doesn’t spend much time thinking abstractly or questioning the origin of life. But multi-disciplinary scientist and astrobiologist Dr. Bruce Damer wasn’t your…
KAMLOOPS – TRU is now home to a unique facility that assesses exercise capacity and cardiovascular disease risk thanks to a $200,000 grant from the…
