Castanet Kamloops | Tick Talk: Stay safe outdoors March 16, 2021
The weather is getting warmer and more people are heading outside to enjoy their local parks and trails, but with spring also comes tick season.…
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Limitless campaign surpasses $48 million February 17, 2021
TRU’s Limitless fundraising campaign has now exceeded $48 million, despite a year of hardship for many. Generous donor support has brought the campaign to the…
Kamloops This Week | $250,000 grant will help TRU researchers probe life and death of micro-organisms December 18, 2020
Supported by a $250,000 grant from Genome BC, TRU’s Dr. Lauchlan Fraser and Dr. Jonathan Van Hamme are leading a research team at Highland Valley…
Genome BC funds groundbreaking research December 8, 2020
KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University faculty members Drs. Lauchlan Fraser and Jonathan Van Hamme are leading novel research to enable more precise measurements of soil…
CBC British Columbia | Kamloops, B.C., zoo sheltering 92 snakes displaced by Trans Mountain pipeline construction December 7, 2020
In October, B.C. Wildlife Park received 92 Great Basin gopher snakes and western yellow-bellied racers displaced from Lac du Bois due to the Trans Mountain…
Academica | TRU announces opening of Wells Gray Education and Research Centre November 17, 2020
Academica shares the news about the new Wells Gray Education and Research Centre that was made possible by numerous donations. Read more
New Wells Gray centre allows year-round study November 16, 2020
A new educational facility near Wells Gray Provincial Park is nearly three decades in the making. Thompson Rivers University is pleased to expand the Wells…
Lillooet man leaves TRU $350K for women in science September 30, 2020
Education was his last wish. James Bain of Lillooet passed away in 2019 and quietly left a profound gift upon his departure: his entire estate…
TRU receives unexpected $350K donation September 29, 2020
KAMLOOPS– Thompson Rivers University (TRU) has received a donation of $350,000 after a Lillooet man left his estate to the university foundation. James Bain of…
Radio NL | Lillooet man leaves TRU $350,000 to fund bursaries for women in science September 29, 2020
The TRU Foundation received a surprise donation from James Bain of Lillooet, who bequeathed his entire estate worth $350,000 that is going toward the creation…
CBC North by Northwest | Scientist Series, featuring Tom Dickinson September 8, 2020
He's TRU's former dean of science with a passion for birds and Charles Darwin. Tom Dickinson was featured on North by Northwest's Scientist Series on…
Clearwater Times | TRU’s Wells Gray research centre upgrades facilities June 16, 2020
Thompsons Rivers University’s research centre in Wells Gray Park received a $150,000 donation comes from Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation (WGCFC) and will be used…
Quesnel Cariboo Observer | Predator scat study in Chilcotin could inform future moose management June 15, 2020
TRU students are studying predator scat in a project with the Tsilhqot’in National Government to determine moose population projections. Read more
Grant expands Wells Gray research centre June 11, 2020
KAMLOOPS‑— A significant grant from the Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation (WGCFC) is helping Thompson Rivers University (TRU) upgrade facilities at its Wells Gray Research…
Live Science | Why these rattlesnakes are declining at an alarming rate June 8, 2020
For TRU faculty member Karl Larsen and student researcher Marcus Atkins, Western rattlesnakes are a species to be studied, especially in spring as the slitherers…
CTV News | Kamloops professor becomes proud mom of ducklings, after lab closed due to COVID-19 June 1, 2020
Erica Gray Gowans, an associate professor in TRU's Animal Health Technology program, took home duck eggs that were supposed to be hatched on campus when…
CBC North by Northwest | Karl Larsen on snakes and squirrels June 1, 2020
North by Northwest host Sheryl MacKay interviews TRU Faculty of Science biologist Karl Larsen from TRU explains his ongoing research with snakes and squirrels. The…
Hatched at home and avatar physicists: Faculty of Science rolls with COVID changes May 21, 2020
COVID-19 has led to a share of disruptions, but it hasn’t hampered our ability to adapt and to roll with the changes. What follows are just two examples from the Faculty of Science. The first…
Kamloops This Week | Sliding slope near The Home Depot a lesson in unstable earth May 21, 2020
Thompson Rivers University geology professors took KTW on a tour of a section of Kenna Cartwright Park, with its geological characteristics like cracks in the…
North by Northwest | Science series May 15, 2020
Hear TRU microbiologist Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham talk about how she got into science and her research work studying white-nose syndrome in bats. The interview begins…
