By Brandi Thring Through TRU’s Global Skills Opportunity (GSO) initiative, Cassidy Jean (BA ’22) travelled from Kamloops to Spain in 2022 for a short-term language…
On the one-year anniversary of a semi crashing into her home in the Shuswap, researcher Dr. Hilda Freimuth has written a paper detailing her serious…
Arts faculty member George Johnson spoke with Jeff and Bill of Radio NL about English words that are more difficult to pronounce, like Worcestershire, and…
Arts faculty member George Johnson hopes his stage play Boomerangst will have a positive impact in Kamloops. Read more
[caption id="attachment_2972942" align="alignright" width="445"] Dr. Joan Sherman Weir[/caption] Distinguished author and long-time Kamloops resident Joan Sherman Weir lived her life with energy and passion. She…
Three TRU researchers have received more than $170,000 through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants program. The program supports research…
Kamloops-based English professor and author, George Johnson, has been named a finalist for the Montaigne Medal in the U.S., competing with books in all genres,…
TRU English Professor George Johnson's second children’s book, not only reflects Johnson’s own experience, but also that of his wife, Nina, and coincidentally, that of…
TRU alum Monique Gray Smith has been very successful in her career as both a psychiatric nurse and author since studying at Cariboo College. In…
Stories do more than merely tell tales. They create empathy in readers—young and old—and give voice to issues like social justice. And that is exactly…
George Johnson, a professor in the English and modern languages department at Thompson Rivers University, has written a book to inspire kids to make a…
Cameo appearances in movies ask us to think outside the boundaries of the film we are watching and remember all of the details we know…
[caption id="attachment_2955229" align="alignright" width="302"] Conrad Scott, author of Waterline Immersion, and TRU alumni.[/caption] When Conrad Scott started university, fresh from what was then Kamloops Secondary…
Susan Buis has lived in the Southern Interior for almost 14 years and admits that after a somewhat nomadic life, she struggled to open herself…
Like an album of songs that work together in harmony, Karen Hofmann’s latest book, Echolocation, is a collection of stories that speak to the same…
Dr. Jeff McLaughlin Dr. Jeff McLaughlin is available to speak to the historical and ethical dilemmas often showcased through graphic comic novels and on the…
War and peace: what are the lessons? As we move beyond the centenary of the end of the First World War in 1918 we must…
TRU faculty member Melissa Jakubec and the late Dr. Cameron Reid, an Open Learning Faculty member, took an innovative approach to online course design which…
A project defining and measuring the intangible concept of trust started with curiosity, conversation and the desire to make universities better. Dr. Ulrich Scheck combined…
When Will Primrose isn't combining chemicals, he's mixing words. The third-year chemistry student has opted for a minor that's not typical among his science peers:…
