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Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Presenting a preponderance of plastic March 13, 2018

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…

Campus News, Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Barnacle research snags top spot March 2, 2018

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…

Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured, Office of the President, Research and Graduate Studies
TRU genomics lab a first for the BC Interior December 11, 2017

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…

Faculty of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Putting higher education in its place October 3, 2017

[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…

Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured
Scoring goals on and off the field September 27, 2017

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…

Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Cave bacteria: A window to the past, even to distant worlds July 4, 2017

[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,…

Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured,
Singing the praises of national bird December 1, 2016

[caption id="attachment_2025283" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Drawings by biology faculty member Stephen Joly are sketched on a whiteboard in the Faculty of Science break room.[/caption]   A small…

Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies, TRU World
Witnessing poverty shapes future doctor November 22, 2016

Witnessing profound poverty in Roorkee, India this summer forever changed Jagdeesh Uppal's view of the world. He also saw how he can make a difference.…

Campus News, Faculty and staff, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Celebrating BC Day with BC research July 28, 2016

On Aug. 1, we celebrate BC’s birthday and here at TRU there is a lot to celebrate—including all of the ground-breaking research being done by…

Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Six researchers share in Discovery Grant awards June 24, 2016

Six Thompson Rivers University researchers received nearly $200,000 through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced today by the Government…