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Living Library promotes intercultural conversations

Posted on: March 6, 2015

Sign out a living book and learn about that person’s stories, background, and beliefs.

IDays: Feed your senses with cultural flavours

Posted on: March 6, 2015

Until you immerse yourself in another culture, it can be hard to define what makes it unique. For many, understanding another culture begins by letting the senses take over and sharing in the universal experiences of flavour and colour, rhythm and melody. Celebrate IDays with a sensory feast of food, music, dance, art and film.

Celebrating ways and culture during Aboriginal Awareness Week

Posted on: March 4, 2015

March 1-7 is Aboriginal Awareness Week at TRU and a number of events are planned to celebrate Aboriginal ways, teachings, culture, and more.

IDays 2015: Speakers and lectures

Posted on: March 2, 2015

This year’s IDays lineup of guest speakers will share their international perspectives on topics ranging from human rights to conservation, health tourism to medicine.

IDays 2015: Many cultures, one community

Posted on: February 27, 2015

IDays is an opportunity to learn how to cook dishes from around the world, listen to speakers, learn sign language or play games from different countries, attend seminars on Study Abroad and the Global Competency certificate, and more.

Examining the definitions of body image

Posted on: February 18, 2015

Have your perceptions of body image challenged or reinforced during a free body image workshop on March 6 by American poet, performance artist, activist, and transformational leader Sonya Renee Taylor.

Story Tellers Gala presents Richard Wagamese

Posted on: February 18, 2015

Richard Wagamese — prominent local and national writer, author, story teller, performance story teller, and more — will educate, entertain, and inspire during the sixth annual Story Tellers Gala on Feb. 25.

Family ties on a global campus

Posted on: February 12, 2015

When you’re thinking about moving 15,000 kilometres away from family and friends for school, homesickness is to be expected. But when recent graduate Idah Msiska (’14) considered coming to TRU from her home country of Zambia, family made all the difference.

Internationalization Architect Receives Lifetime Achievement

Posted on: July 2, 2014

The original architect of TRU’s international efforts has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE).