Emergency Exercise Index 2 1/2 years of planning. 122 RCMP personnel, who included emergency response team (ERT) members, negotiators, Immediate Action Rapid Deployment (IARD) members,…

Had it not been a chance conversation many years ago, Lois Peters may not have found her calling or be receiving an award for her…

Acacia Schmietenknop’s tireless dedication to improving the Kamloops community has earned her the national recognition of being a female leader of tomorrow. She was presented…

Learn more about the plants and garden spaces on campus during free, guided tours provided by members of the TRU Friends of the Gardens. Scheduled…

The Ministry of Advanced Education recently announced it would pay for 16 seats in the Foundation millwright program. Years of lobbying for a millwright program…

TRU’s free fitness classes offered through TRU Recreation are continuing through the end of June, with July and August to be determined based on participation…

It was stiff competition, but Elizabeth Watt from the University of Calgary took top spot at the Western Canadian Three Minute Thesis (3MT) for her presentation, “Permanent Breast…

By Pam Erikson Instead of just talking about environmental concerns, TRU geography students took action through six crowdfunded projects to raise awareness, purchase needed equipment…

What is one action you can pledge this year to reduce your carbon footprint? The university’s department of Environment and Sustainability put the question to…

Thompson Rivers University issued a retraction and apology yesterday to more than 400 people for an erroneous communication advising them they had been accepted into…

Each year TRU recognizes outstanding achievement of its faculty and staff with merit awards. As well those with 10 years or more of service are…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Pictured here is four of the 13 students participating in the year-end exhibition for students graduating from the Bachelor of Fine…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] This is a screen grab from the video entry "Why should bioprospectors look for cures in caves?"[/caption] Do chimpanzees have culture?…

[caption id="attachment_30481" align="alignright" width="150"] Rob Hood[/caption] TRU's dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism, Rob Hood, plans to cycle across much of Canada this summer…

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…

It is rare for a week to go by without the issue of animal rights in the headlines. TRU Law faculty member Katie Sykes recognized…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Greg Toth, senior director for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Expansion Project, announces a memorandum of understanding with TRU on April 7,…

Nursing students raise awareness of kidney health By Pam Erikson The World Kidney Day health fair was a success, thanks in part to TRU Nursing…

Thompson Rivers University will offer a second year of engineering with the recent signing of an agreement with the University of Victoria’s School of Engineering.…

Undergraduate students can now share their outstanding research in a meaningful and productive way. The new TRU Undergraduate Research Journal (TRU-URJ) is an academic for-student…