Students graduate straight to the COVID-19 frontlines May 7, 2020
For someone who is hit hard by COVID-19, the sound is both reassuring and terrifying. The shoop click click, shoop click click, of a ventilator…
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InfoNews Kamloops | TRU prof offering video lesson on how to better understand COVID-19 data April 23, 2020
TRU Assistant Professor of statistics and data sciences, Mateen Shaikh, has launched a video explaining some numbers around the COVID-19 pandemic. He has worked with…
Kamloops This Week | Thompson Rivers University to launch new master of science in data science program April 3, 2020
Students in TRU's two-year Master of Science in Data Science program will dig deep into interdisciplinary solutions, using mathematical, computational, statistical and algorithmic techniques to…
TRU launches new Master of Science in Data Science program April 3, 2020
KAMLOOPS—A new Master of Science in Data Science program kicks off at Thompson Rivers University in September to meet the growing demand for data scientists.…
TRU launches Master of Science in Data Science April 3, 2020
Our lives are a mass of data: every purchase, every phone call, every Google search – they’re all collected, compiled and turned into big data.…
Donation prepares students for hospital work March 31, 2020
Health-care workers have always been unsung heroes, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put a new spotlight on the people who spend their lives saving others.…
Radio NL | Jeff Andreas Show - Jonathan Van Hamme February 18, 2020
TRU faculty member Jonathan Van Hamme talks with Jeff Andreas about PFAS, compounds that keep food from sticking to frying pans and are used in…
The Conversation Canada | A blanket ban on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ is good for people and animals February 6, 2020
TRU's Jonathan Van Hamme writes in The Conversation Canada about why products like clothing, carpets and cookware treated with poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (toxic chemicals…
Awards celebrate environmental research January 14, 2020
Graduate students Shannon Mendt and Joey Chisholm have been awarded Environmental Science and Natural Resource Science Fellowships as a result of their commitment to conducting…
Donor gives $300,000 to upgrade geology lab January 8, 2020
A $300,000 gift from retired geologist Nels Vollo will give new life to Thompson Rivers University’s (TRU) geology lab. The donation will allow TRU to…
CBC British Columbia | Researchers study yeast genomes to uncover new ways of brewing January 2, 2020
Thompson Rivers University researcher Jonathan Van Hamme has teamed up with Vancouver's Parallel 49 brewery to study one of their most popular but hard-to-create beers.…
Above and Beyond | Alysa McCall’s polar bear and Arctic conservation efforts earn award January 2, 2020
Kamloops-born, TRU alumna Alysa McCall has studied polar bears in Canada's North for nine years and is determined to protect them. She is the director…
Vancouver Sun | They might be spooky, but bats are under threat from deadly fungus October 30, 2019
Researchers at Thompson Rivers University are working to stop the spread of a disease called White Nose Syndrome that is killing bats. Read more
BC’s First National Accreditation for Architectural and Engineering Tech Program October 4, 2019
Graduates of TRU’s Architectural and Engineering Technology (ARET) program will now enjoy a globally-accepted professional status, after today’s official announcement that makes the program BC’s…
Alaska Highway News | Fort St. John student travels to Ecuador to work with Amazon animals September 25, 2019
Fort St. John student Brittney Hein has worked from the African savanna to the Amazon rainforest as a veterinarian in training. She recently spent two…
InfoNews Kamloops | Kamloops biologist ready to test new fire ant control method in South Okanagan July 24, 2019
TRU biologist Rob Higgins is studying fire ants in Naramata to test various ways of controlling the invasive creatures. Read more
Brighter World | Why cultural safety is critical to the health of First Nations July 11, 2019
TRU alum Erin Slade is working to make Indigenous communities and people healthier. Her degree from TRU took her to a master's program at McMaster…
Girls get messy at their own camp June 28, 2019
Girls belong in science, technology, engineering and math as much as the next guy. That’s why TRU offers a one-week Girls Only EUReKA! Science camp.…
Provincial scholarships awarded to graduate researchers June 13, 2019
KAMLOOPS – Four exceptional graduate students at Thompson Rivers University will share in scholarships valued at $60,000. They are the first at TRU to receive…
Meet our donors: The TB Vets Charitable Foundation June 7, 2019
Support from the TB Vets Charitable Foundation and its donors has fuelled the respiratory therapy program at Thompson Rivers University for 30 years through critical…
