Kamloops This Week | Guest view: Arriving in a pandemic January 4, 2021
TRU's new vice-president of university relations recounts his relocation from Winnipeg to Kamloops as the pandemic put cities in lockdown and the university shifted to…
Tag: community, Page 20
CBC Kamloops | Early childhood education centre tour November 9, 2020
CBC's Shelley Joyce joins TRU Dean of Education and Social Work Airini and early childhood education researcher Laura Doan on the site of a future…
Academica | TRU to submit plans for unique early years hub November 2, 2020
TRU is planning to centralize its early childhood education program, research and non-profit day-care services into one building, joining three components currently located across TRU’s…
Kamloops This Week | TRU dean: Kamloops is an early childhood education leader October 28, 2020
Thompson Rivers University is planning co-location of its early childhood education program, research and non-profit day-care services into one centre on McGill Road, a project…
News releases
TRU Day of Giving keeps going to fill needs October 28, 2020
KAMLOOPS–It takes more than COVID-19 to cancel Thompson Rivers University’s annual Day of Giving that raises funds to support students to achieve their dreams. This…
Radio NL | Ruby Dhand and the proposed Kamloops Community Justice Court October 24, 2020
Legal experts in Kamloops hope to launch a Kamloops Community Justice Court. TRU Law Associate Professor Dr. Ruby Dhand is a part of the team…
The Omega | TRU student opens an exhibition at the KAC October 13, 2020
The Kamloops Art Council (KAC) welcomed a new exhibition curated by local artist and KAC intern Shay Paul, titled IllumiNATIVE. The exhibition showcases not only…
Academica | TRU, Kamloops renew MOU focused on rebuilding region October 9, 2020
Thompson Rivers University and the City of Kamloops have renewed a MOU that will help rebuild the region following the impacts of COVID-19. Read more
Kamloops This Week | TRU student wants to be fed survey data on pandemic’s effects on Kamloops restaurants July 3, 2020
After watching restaurants react to health guidelines that effectively closed their doors, Josh Parker has questions about where laid-off staff have gone, whether staff plan…
100 Mile Free Press | PSO grad Kayleigh Jacobson loves working as care aide at Fischer Place June 22, 2020
100 Mile District General Hospital care aide Kayleigh Jacobson has started her professional career within her own community after taking a dual credit program in…
CBC BC | Hundreds of non-medical masks with Indigenous flair made for First Nations communities May 20, 2020
Shelly Johnson is a professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., and the Canada research chair in Indigenizing Higher Education, but since the COVID-19…
News releases
TRU honours two women who overcame dire childhoods May 19, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2020 KAMLOOPS – One survived the BC residential school system, the other survived a Nazi concentration camp. Both are…
Faculty and staff, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured, Indigenous Education
Answering the call of community with hundreds of masks May 11, 2020
She’s the world’s first Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing higher education. And she has provided face masks to communities across Canada, to the Navajo Nation…
CFJC Today | Windsor Plywood Foundation chips in $75k for TRU carpentry program May 5, 2020
The Windsor Plywood Foundation has donated $75,000 to TRU’s carpentry program, thanks to a request from the Kamloops store owners, one of whom is an…
Campus News, Faculty of Student Development
Socially distanced Ramadan: five tips for a transformative experience April 21, 2020
Ramadan, a month of cleansing, community, and connection to God, is the most precious time on the Muslim calendar. However, in this time of quarantine…
Faculty and staff
Telephone service outage, Kamloops campus March 2, 2020
This Saturday, Mar. 7, the City of Kamloops will be undergoing work that impacts TRU's telephone services. The city is moving fibre cable on West…
Faculty and staff, Featured,
First residential building officially opens at TRU February 28, 2020
Thompson Rivers University President Brett Fairbairn joined other dignitaries Friday for the official grand opening of Legacy Square, the first residential project to be complete…
Faculty of Student Development, Featured,
Cards of connection February 18, 2020
Stephanie Tate wanted to give new students a boost of motivation as they navigate their first year. She found fresh graduates to share their wisdom…
Campus News, Faculty and staff, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Featured,
Teaching rights to local kids with Mind the Gap February 17, 2020
Excited, giggling kids marching about, adults scurrying after them, joyful exclamations, and abandoned, half-eaten mandarin oranges filled the ordinarily peaceful, serene space of the round…
Alumni, Faculty and staff, Faculty of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism, Featured,
Using big dreams to turn mountains into molehills February 13, 2020
For two years, Sebastian Carrasco had prepared for this moment. Yet as he waited at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro, questions continued to swirl in…
