The Buttonwood Park Zoo’s Virtual Wildlife Education Series in New Bedford is featuring Alysa McCall, director of Conservation Outreach for Polar Bears International. McCall earned…
Migratory songbirds have to replace their feathers as they get worn or lose their colour. Matthew Reudink takes a look at the annual cycle of…
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.…
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…
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…
KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University faculty members Drs. Lauchlan Fraser and Jonathan Van Hamme are leading novel research to enable more precise measurements of soil…
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 shares the news about the new Wells Gray Education and Research Centre that was made possible by numerous donations. Read more
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
TRU students are studying predator scat in a project with the Tsilhqot’in National Government to determine moose population projections. Read more
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
