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Students spend summer as funded researchers
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 awarded Undergraduate...
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State-of-the-art sensors take flight over BC grasslands
Dr. David Hill will be keeping a close eye on BC’s fragile rangelands, thanks to a $200,000 boost to his research program from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund....
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Bats, wine, wildfire — research programs boosted by collaboration grants
While the research projects are all very different, the first four teams awarded TRU’s Tri-University Major Project Collaboration Grants are alike in their intent to build partnerships and develop...
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Dr. Chris Hunt receives Excellence in Scholarship Award
Dr. Chris Hunt is the first member of TRU’s Faculty of Law to receive the prestigious Excellence in Scholarship Award. Hunt, who received the award during last week’s Merit Award ceremony, began his...
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TRU team receives $300K provincial grant for invasive species research
The Government of British Columbia has provided $300,000 over three years to Dr. Lauchlan Fraser’s research team to help manage invasive species in the Laurie Guichon Memorial Grasslands near Merritt,...
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Let the cars do the talking
We’re 10 years away from having 100 per cent of vehicles speak to each other through the Internet of Vehicles Dr. Ning Lu predicts, but to get there, basic foundations must be built, which is where his...
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Sharing a passion for research peer-to-peer
Graduate Research Mentors, 2018-19 Undergraduate Research Ambassadors, 2018-19 Even without the title and the award, Breanne McAmmond actively promotes research at TRU. “Doing research has truly...
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Gold medal awarded for cutting-edge marine research
Hilary Hamilton grew up in the Maritimes, so it’s no surprise that she developed a passion for marine ecology. But it might be surprising that upon completing her undergraduate degree at New...
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No Straight Lines an inventory of small city social assets
There’s quality of life, and then there’s “equality of quality of life,” and it is this research that is at the very heart of No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to...
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Research sends TRU grad student to Australia
Syeda Sonia Parvin arrived at TRU from Bangladesh to complete her Master of Science in Environmental Economics and Management (MScEEM), and now, thanks to a Mitacs Globalink Research Award, she’s once...
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International law: Research tackles same-sex unions, surrogacy and adoption
International migration, technology and human rights norms have changed the nature of the family. While Canada and other countries have legalized same-sex marriage, and regulate surrogacy agreements,...
View ArticleNew graduate student scholarship fund supports TRU’s best talent
A new $180,000 graduate student scholarship fund is being provided to Thompson Rivers University (TRU) to support students in priority areas, like science and technology, and boost research and...
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Outstanding graduate students awarded entrance scholarships
Four exceptional TRU graduate students will share in federal entrance scholarships valued at a total of $70,000. The Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS-M) program support students who show a...
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TRU’s Ombaashi hosts national gathering
More than 150 Indigenous and allied researchers from across Canada arrive at TRU next week for the National Gathering of Graduate Students. The gathering is geared toward those conducting research in...
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TRU to become research hub for ecosystem recovery
We see them just about everywhere—on the sides of mountains after a logging operation has wrapped up, and on hillsides marked by mining—wherever we extract resources, we disturb the environment. To...
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Chemistry converts garbage to gold
Dr. Kingsley Donkor has been awarded $350,000 for his research program that is designed to turn waste into fertilizer. This is the first Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada...
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Small cities not exempt from big issues
Nearly a decade ago when Terry Kading and Christopher Walmsley began to first notice the big city issues that were knocking on their small city front doors, they did what any social science researchers...
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Rethinking research
What is community-based research? Put simply, it is an approach to research in which the problem originates in the community — not the university — and when Dr. Budd Hall began discussing this concept...
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Students recognized for new PHP journal
Sometimes all it takes for a good idea to become reality is for a few brave people to step forward and say: “What’s stopping me?” That’s exactly how the new, student-led peer-reviewed journal,...
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TRU researchers share $355,000 in federal awards
Three Thompson Rivers University researchers received $355,000 through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced today by the Government of...
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