[embed]https://youtu.be/0DALfFBxQxw[/embed] Lavraj Lidher is one of six valedictorians selected to speak at the 2018 spring convocation ceremonies. A science graduate, he will address the Faculty…
[caption id="attachment_2710533" align="alignright" width="400"] Graduate Research Mentors, 2018-19[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2710534" align="alignright" width="400"] Undergraduate Research Ambassadors, 2018-19[/caption] Even without the title and the award, Breanne McAmmond…
Undergraduate researchers will be hard at work this summer, investigating everything from homophobia in Russia, to white nose syndrome in bats. Nineteen students have been…
An exceptional mentor can make a fundamental difference in the life of an undergraduate researcher, and it is clear, based on the comments from current…
Valerie Law spent a summer working with rattlesnakes, so she doesn’t scare easily. But she admits to being slightly nervous standing in front of the…
These days, the news is full of photos of beaches covered with plastic bottles and other litter, oceans strewn with plastic bags floating like jelly…
[caption id="attachment_2636837" align="alignright" width="532"] The 2018 Knowledge Makers.[/caption] For design student Lyle Paul, it was an opportunity to spend two days exploring a topic he’s…
During Reading Week, TRU played host to experts from across North America — and Australia — who were here to identify ways to promote inclusivity in…
As the recipient of the Undergraduate Research Experience Award Program (UREAP), flight instructor Jonny Davis is forever in pursuit of aviation-related research and innovation. As…
Nine exceptional students have been awarded Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grants, and it’s all due to the steady growth of research at…
When Natalie Clark was a Cariboo College student she volunteered on a local crisis line and calls the experience “some of the best training I’ve…
BC’s three major Interior universities have even more opportunity to work together in creating technological innovations, as new funding comes their way for tech programs.…
Learning is fun. So much so, they’ve spent hours exploring an area of interest in the hope of better understanding it and the world around…
Is there value in support groups for social workers? What unique challenges to Indigenous nursing students face? These are just a couple of the questions…
Researchers at TRU and their students were given a $90,000 boost this week, through the Undergraduate Research Apprentice program. The program provides $3,000 grants that…
Thompson Rivers University researchers have once again teamed up with community partners as part of an initiative designed to promote social innovation. The Community Driven Research…
They’ve spent more than a year gathering the voices of older adults living in BC’s Interior, and now, thanks to a Michael Smith Foundation for…
When he was tinkering with low-cost technology last summer, Brandon Turner didn’t realize it would have a huge payoff a year later. Taking what he learned…
Metro Vancouver’s housing prices have risen so high that most families may never pay off their mortgage, even after 40 years of working to do…
[caption id="attachment_2381661" align="alignleft" width="465"] Richenda McFarlane with some cultures grown from cave bacteria.[/caption] Each time she looks through a microscope to better understand cave bacteria,…
