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Carpentry students gain industry experience

Carpentry students gain industry experience

May 24, 2023 / 2:13 pm

A day at the City Gardens construction site provided an eye-opening opportunity for TRU’s carpentry students recently. Connor Simmons “It was a good...

Explore Riverside Park with the Eco Day Scavenger Hunt

Explore Riverside Park with the Eco Day Scavenger Hunt

May 19, 2023 / 8:37 am

KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is hosting a free digital scavenger hunt to encourage the public to learn about environmental sustainability while...

Philanthropy report receives national award

Philanthropy report receives national award

May 18, 2023 / 8:33 am

TRU’s 2021-22 Report on Philanthropy has earned a silver medal from the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE), an organization that...

TRU honours outstanding individuals at Spring Convocation

TRU honours outstanding individuals at Spring Convocation

May 15, 2023 / 9:33 am

KAMLOOPS – Four people who have made the world a better place are being honoured at this year’s Spring Convocation at Thompson Rivers University (TRU)....

King Charles’s 21st century coronation: Repatriating the Crown Jewels is long overdue

King Charles’s 21st century coronation: Repatriating the Crown Jewels is long overdue

May 5, 2023 / 11:37 am

King Charles will be directed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to “punish and reform what is amiss, confirm what is in good order” at his upcoming...

Graduate student’s global wildfire journey

Graduate student’s global wildfire journey

May 4, 2023 / 4:34 pm

Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Master of Science in Environmental Science student Andrea Robinson is passionate about the planet. An aspiring wildfire...

Engineering and business education leads to dynamic career

Engineering and business education leads to dynamic career

May 1, 2023 / 11:11 am

Diony Duraes Santos (MBA ’19) is an accomplished engineer who has worked in seven countries, is fluent in four languages and holds two master’s degrees, but...

Cyndi McLeod: Building an international legacy

Cyndi McLeod: Building an international legacy

Apr 28, 2023 / 1:41 pm

With drive, gratitude and compassion, Cyndi McLeod brought to life the founding vision of TRU World in infrastructure, partnerships and an inspiring team...

3MT is short on time, long on knowledge

3MT is short on time, long on knowledge

Apr 28, 2023 / 1:40 pm

There’s an art to summing up extensive research and boiling down to a three-minute-long presentation. Three Master of Science graduate students demonstrated...

A future with more Indigenous lawyers

A future with more Indigenous lawyers

Apr 26, 2023 / 10:42 am

Barry Wilson spent his youth fighting for Indigenous rights through protests and activism. Thanks to those efforts, his daughter Tara-Lynn Wilson can continue...

TRU recognized nationally and internationally for sustainability

TRU recognized nationally and internationally for sustainability

Apr 26, 2023 / 8:56 am

Thompson Rivers University’s (TRU) commitment to sustainability has earned the university recognition as a global leader among post-secondary institutions....

It’s not the end of privacy yet in Canada, but the threat remains

It’s not the end of privacy yet in Canada, but the threat remains

Apr 18, 2023 / 10:39 am

The Conversation Canada article by TRU Law faculty member Robert Diab Despite early predictions that the internet would spell the end of privacy, it continues...

Funding helps welders showcase skills

Funding helps welders showcase skills

Apr 5, 2023 / 9:03 am

High expectations lead to successful students. That’s the not-so-secret strategy of Larry Franzen, welding instructor at TRU, and one reason he says so many...

A path for personal growth leads to unplanned opportunities

A path for personal growth leads to unplanned opportunities

Apr 4, 2023 / 9:00 am

What should you seek in a university education? Vernie Clement, BBA ’13, has approached it as a way to gather tools and abilities to add to his own...

Atoms and earthquakes: TRU alum shares her love of science

Atoms and earthquakes: TRU alum shares her love of science

Apr 3, 2023 / 10:39 am

Do words like quantum optics and ions make your head spin? Did you shy away from studying sciences in school because you didn’t think you were smart enough?...

Online or in class? TRU Gaglardi’s hybrid learning classroom offers the best of both

Online or in class? TRU Gaglardi’s hybrid learning classroom offers the best of both

Apr 3, 2023 / 9:00 am

Periodically, Alexandria Vagar sets aside her work in her Vancouver KPMG office and opens Zoom to attend classes for her Master in Environmental Economics and...

Crane work begins for new East Village modular student housing

Crane work begins for new East Village modular student housing

Apr 3, 2023 / 8:53 am

The on-site delivery and craning-in of the first modulars for new student housing at East Village starts this week. The modular housing was fabricated off-site...

A well-planned life that keeps moving

A well-planned life that keeps moving

Mar 31, 2023 / 1:44 pm

Certified Financial Planner Fred Zhou, BBA ’09 and MBA ’11, has built a career on what he values most: people, community and saying yes to new...

TRU Williams Lake invites all to powerful Indigenous exhibits

TRU Williams Lake invites all to powerful Indigenous exhibits

Mar 27, 2023 / 8:13 am

WILLIAMS LAKE — Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Williams Lake proudly welcomes two Indigenous exhibitions to campus. Created by the First Peoples’ Cultural...

Business research taps power of people with disabilities

Business research taps power of people with disabilities

Mar 24, 2023 / 1:04 pm

In 2004, Selali Tettevi left her home country of Ghana to further her education and start a nursing career in Canada. Four years later, her life changed in an...

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