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Chemistry converts garbage to gold

  Posted on: September 12, 2018

Dr. Kingsley Donkor’s lab is benefiting from a $350,000 federal grant for a research project that seeks to turn waste into fertilizer.

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Creative chemistry

  Posted on: July 20, 2018

Third-year science student Will Primrose’s passion for words makes his teaching and his science more understandable and precise.

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Regional Science Fair 2

Curious in the name of science

  Posted on: April 12, 2018

More than 200 students in grades 4–12 showcased their research projects during the Cariboo Mainline Regional Science Fair.

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Learning by osmosis

  Posted on: December 8, 2016

Albert Adserias is about to spend his first winter in Kamloops, earning a double degree from TRU and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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Green Chemistry conference gives students taste of applied research

  Posted on: July 18, 2016

Chemistry graduate Matt Miller was part of a team that came up with the winning solution to the problem of water waste in the textile dyeing industry during the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference held in Portland, Oregon last month. The solution was considered groundbreaking by an industry expert.

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Plastics research gets plenty of attention

  Posted on: April 8, 2015

First a patent, now a follow up article published in a prominent scientific journal—Postdoctoral Fellow and sessional instructor Dr. Dipesh Prema is getting a lot of attention for his plastics research in inorganic chemistry.

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