TRU is now home to a unique facility that assesses exercise capacity and cardiovascular disease risk thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Canada Foundation…
Three TRU graduate students whose research will have immediate and important impact on our natural environments have been awarded Environmental Science and Natural Resource Science…
Nick Fontaine can’t comprehend why anyone would be afraid of bats. Bats get a bad rap. They’re villainized throughout literature, and are feared as bloodsuckers…
Three Thompson Rivers University researchers received $355,000 through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced today by the Government of…
In our We Know What You Did This Summer series, we're talking to students who spent their summer semester in one of the experiential learning…
The classroom in the Big Little Science Centre was electric with energy. Grade 8 boys and girls gathered around tables and explored wires, batteries, magnets…
Hilary Hamilton grew up in the Maritimes, so it’s no surprise that she developed a passion for marine ecology. But it might be surprising that…
Lyn Baldwin has made an art of teaching botany and natural history. Or rather, she has put art into teaching science. Her innovative approach is…
To say that TRU Dean of Science Tom Dickinson is a fan of Charles Darwin is like saying the world is a little bit round.…
These days, the news is full of photos of beaches covered with plastic bottles and other litter, oceans strewn with plastic bags floating like jelly…
Shannon Mendt’s stressed out barnacles took top honours in the annual Master of Science in Environmental Science Showcase this week. The showcase, which featured oral…
Completing a graduate degree involves passion, dedication, and a significant amount of stress, so to receive one of two $7,500 Environmental Science and Natural Resource…
The first high-throughput genomics lab in BC outside of the Lower Mainland is now open at Thompson Rivers University, thanks to nearly $750,000 in federal…
They’re community builders, athletes, volunteers and scholars. In our TRU Trailblazers series, we’re profiling some of our 2017 major scholarship winners. Read on to meet…
[caption id="attachment_2503061" align="alignright" width="372"] Dr. Naowarat Cheeptham, Associate Professor, Biology[/caption] A team of Canadian researchers are developing a new preventative treatment to combat a deadly disease that is…
[caption id="attachment_2482708" align="alignright" width="418"] Lyn Baldwin, Kim Naqvi, Nancy Flood, Elizabeth Templeman and Ginny Ratsoy, authors of the 15th Green Guide, Place-Based Education: An Inter…
They’re community builders, athletes, volunteers, and scholars. In this series titled TRU Trailblazers, we’re profiling some of our 2017 major scholarship winners. Read on to…
[caption id="attachment_2381661" align="alignleft" width="465"] Richenda McFarlane with some cultures grown from cave bacteria.[/caption] Each time she looks through a microscope to better understand cave bacteria,…
Dr. Matt Reudink, Associate Professor of Biology, has been awarded the prestigious Northcote and Brink Professorship. The Professorship may be held for up to three…
As an on-campus and community-based volunteer, fourth-year chemical biology major Braedon Paul has an action-packed schedule. Much of Braedon’s connectedness with the community is through…
