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Campus Life - Kamloops News

Potential faculty strike Q&A

Nov 19, 2015 / 1:42 pm

You may be concerned about the ongoing negotiations between the University and the TRU Faculty Association (TRUFA) for a new collective agreement....

Engage in research abroad

Engage in research abroad

Nov 18, 2015 / 3:04 pm

TRU Bachelor of Science student Nadja Hedrich couldn’t find a single reason not to apply for the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) Rise Program,...

Attacks in France and Lebanon

Attacks in France and Lebanon

Nov 14, 2015 / 3:57 pm

Thompson Rivers University is shocked and saddened by the Nov. 13 attacks in France and Lebanon. Our thoughts and sympathy are with all of those affected and...

Transitions day introduces Aboriginal high schoolers to campus

Transitions day introduces Aboriginal high schoolers to campus

Nov 13, 2015 / 8:29 am

For years Marcus Scherer knew he would go to university and even had strong ideas of what he would study when he got there. And what really convinced him...

MBA students place second in BC competition

MBA students place second in BC competition

Nov 12, 2015 / 3:45 pm

The following article written by Wade Tomko originally appeared in The Omega’s Nov. 3 edition. The Omega is TRU’s independent student newspaper MBA...

More open textbooks available for students

More open textbooks available for students

Nov 10, 2015 / 10:30 am

Post-secondary students and instructors can now access more than 120 textbooks online, including more than 50 new textbooks focussed on skills training and...

TRU Remembrance Ceremony

TRU Remembrance Ceremony

Nov 6, 2015 / 4:27 pm

TRU Generator open house

TRU Generator open house

Nov 6, 2015 / 12:24 pm

Find out how to turn your idea into a business during the TRU Generator open house. What: Generator Open House When: Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015, 5-7 pm. Where:...

Adopt a dog or cat from Animal Health Technology

Adopt a dog or cat from Animal Health Technology

Nov 4, 2015 / 3:49 pm

The Animal Health Technology program’s adopting out of cats and dogs for the fall semester begins Nov. 9. All animals served as training for AHT student...

Group of (7) visual artists reunited for show

Group of (7) visual artists reunited for show

Nov 4, 2015 / 3:14 pm

Seven visual artists involved in the Kamloops Art Gallery’s Assemblage summer residency program have been reunited for a short exhibition at the TRU Art...

Mountain guide helps TRU go big on sustainability

Mountain guide helps TRU go big on sustainability

Oct 30, 2015 / 2:20 pm

Director of Environment and Sustainability, Jim Gudjonson, makes his way up a mountain in Patagonia. Recently TRU’s Director of Environment and...

Halloween pumpkin patch appears on campus

Halloween pumpkin patch appears on campus

Oct 30, 2015 / 11:51 am

Scary and funny pumpkin faces sprouted on campus this week in a patch of grasses outside the Main Library. Who put them there? The pumpkin patch is a...

6-week program can lead to teaching in China

Oct 29, 2015 / 2:03 pm

A six-week TRU program could be a direct ticket to teaching in China. In partnership with Woogi International, TRU’s Teaching English as a Second Language...

Research has important conservation implications

Research has important conservation implications

Oct 29, 2015 / 12:04 pm

Dr. Matt Reudink’s paper, “Patterns of migratory connectivity in Vaux’s Swifts at a northern migratory roost: A multi-isotope approach,”...

Rising STARS distinction in environment and sustainability

Rising STARS distinction in environment and sustainability

Oct 28, 2015 / 12:07 pm

TRU’s solar panels are just one of numerous energy-reduction initiatives that have cut energy consumption and green house gas emissions by 25 per cent...

Foundation campaign kicks off by celebrating School of Nursing

Oct 28, 2015 / 9:19 am

The TRU Foundation kicked off its annual campaign today by celebrating the various community partners who have supported the university’s nursing programs...

Short story recognized in Room Magazine

Short story recognized in Room Magazine

Oct 26, 2015 / 12:20 pm

Karen Hofmann’s short story, Vagina Dentata, received an honourable mention in Room magazine’s 2015 Poetry and Fiction Contest. Karen Hofmann’s...

Generating entrepreneurial success

Generating entrepreneurial success

Oct 26, 2015 / 9:55 am

Hummingbird Drones founders Robert Atwood (centre), and Richard Sullivan (right), are joined here by Andy Low, Wildlife Preparedness Officer for the BC Wildfire...

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