TRU has received a $320K investment that will support 20 new fast-track seats for TRU’s respiratory therapist diploma program. Read more
For the last 25 years, Karl Larsen has been studying the rodents that live in the hills around Kamloops. This past weekend, he wrapped up…
Thompson Rivers University will be adding 20 new fast-track seats to the school’s respiratory therapist diploma program, thanks to $320,000 in funding from the Ministry…
Karl Larsen and Sheri Watson have introduced at least 800 students to mice, voles and the occasional shrew. This fall, Karl Larsen and Sheri Watson…
This fall, Karl Larsen and Sheri Watson from Natural Resource Sciences celebrated an unusual silver anniversary. For 25 years, students in their NRSC (Natural Resource…
A group of researchers has developed a noninvasive way to prescreen for COVID-19 that’s quick, easily accessible, and discreet. Their technological tool, which analyzes cough…
TRU Faculty of Science Associate Professor Dr. Tom Pypker studies the after effects of wildfires with a focus on land disturbance and water flows. He…
Dr. Eman Mohammed, assistant teaching professor newly arrived at TRU's engineering department, talks about an app that can help with pre-screening for COVID-19. Hear the…
Members of TRU's physics club got an out-of-this-world experience recently as part of a national science competition, floating in zero gravity to test an experiment…
More than 4.6 billion years of Earth’s climate evolution has been condensed into Steve Earle’s new book, A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate. Earle,…
KAMLOOPS–A team of Thompson Rivers University Physics, Math, Software Engineering and Computing Science students were flying in microgravity last week, with an experiment they designed…
TRU wildfire expert Mike Flannigan discusses fire management practices with the podcast hosts. (Note the interview was done shortly before Mike came to TRU, hence…
Master of Science in Environmental Science studentChantalle Gervan is in Prince Rupert this summer, working as the sustainable urban composting project co-ordinator with the Gitmaxmak’ay…
Matching federal funding announced in spring, the Province of British Columbia is contributing almost $850,000 toward research at Thompson Rivers University that will enhance our…
While BC ranchers and farmers deal with the threat of wildfires, TRU wildfire researcher Mike Flannigan says the three elements that contribute to the fires—fuel,…
Fire thunderstorms — which occur in pyrocumulonimbus clouds — not only create their own weather system but may also be powerful enough to actually change…
The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development is looking into chemical treatment of Lost Lake to eliminate an invasive population of…
Hundreds of square kilometres of British Columbia are currently ablaze, and one of Canada's leading experts on wildfires says the worst is yet to come…
TRU wildfire researcher Dr. Mike Flannigan talks to the BBC about the wildfire season. "It really depends on the day-to-day weather, but the potential is…
Climate change is transforming the way wildfires behave across much of North America. Experts point to a combination of heat waves and droughts, especially those…
