TRUly United in community-driven research
Posted on: September 29, 2016
A new Knowledge Mobilization partnership between TRU and the United Way will produce community-driven research.
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Grant accelerates precision ranching research
Posted on: September 13, 2016
The three-year grant of $663,940 cements a partnership between SAIT and Golden, BC’s Kingsclere Ranch and could revolutionize the ranching industry.
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Research on the road: Project reinvigorates aging and health research at TRU
Posted on: August 15, 2016
A team of researchers hits the road to discover what older adults require to maintain long-term good health in rural BC.
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Research impacts immigrant women with PPD
Posted on: July 14, 2016
Joyce O’Mahony, a faculty member in the School of Nursing and her team of academic researchers, Interior Health collaborators and an undergraduate nursing student are conducting an environmental scan of reproductive and mental health care services in the Interior Health demographic area.
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Banking on poverty: research investigates use of payday loan companies
Posted on: November 19, 2015
While some cities wish to prohibit or limit the clustering of payday loan operations, Thompson Rivers University economist Dr. Laura Lamb wants more attention given to the lack of financial options for the clients. When Lamb conducted her research into the use of these fringe finance institutions in 2012, she expected to find evidence to…
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Justice Sinclair: Truth and Reconciliation
Posted on: October 9, 2015
The commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the keynote speaker in what is a collaboration presentation of TRUSU’s annual Story Tellers Gala and the TRU President’s Lecture Series.
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TRU-led grasslands study has global reach
Posted on: July 16, 2015
TRU’s Dr. Lauchlan Fraser is the lead author on a paper published July 16 in Science, the world’s leading journal for cutting-edge research. The paper lends support to a long-standing but controversial ecological hypothesis.
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Research shows rent banks work
Posted on: July 6, 2015
According to the results from the first year of a three-year research study into the effectiveness of rent banks, the answer is a clear yes; rent banks work.
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BC shows fastest growth attracting research dollars
Posted on: July 2, 2015
TRU is among the universities helping British Columbia outpace the country in attracting research dollars from Canadian granting agencies, according to figures released by RUCBC.
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Camera Obscura rolls into Dawson City
Posted on: June 8, 2015
The SSHRC-funded Camera Obscura project, led by TRU visual arts professor Donald Lawrence, is culminating in the Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival, held during Summer Solstice, June 17-21 in Dawson City, Yukon.
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