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Microbes as Art: TRU biology images inspire exhibition at the World of Science in Vancouver

KAMLOOPS – A collection of art inspired by a Thompson Rivers University professor’s microbe scans will be featured at Telus World of Science in Vancouver. The exhibit entitled "Microbes Art Us", is a version of the 2014 Kamloops Art Gallery and TRU Art Gallery shows “Cave Microorganisms and Drug Discovery: A Collaboration Between TRU Microbiology...

More health-care assistants training spaces opening in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - As need grows for health-care assistants in the region a program at Thompson Rivers University aims to get more students out working more quickly. Funding for the program was announced earlier this week, with the province providing the local university with $275,000 to open up 32 new spaces in the program. The funding...

Kamloops Culture Days includes proposed performing arts centre debate

KAMLOOPS - A referendum is just around the corner and Kamloops residents will get to have their say on the city’s purposed performing arts centre beforehand as well. Hosted by the Kamloops Voters Society and moderated by university lecturer John O'Fee, a debate on the performing arts centre will take place Sept. 26 from 2...

Local designer and Mrs. Universe to bring First Nations fashion with a message to Kamloops

KAMLOOPS — Not every fashion show carries a message beyond today's trends, but the next show in Kamloops hopes to communicate a larger issue to those who attend.  Nadine Spence, an aboriginal clothing designer from Spences Bridge, is dedicating her latest show to raise money and awareness for Aboriginal missing and murdered women and children....

Accolades Restaurant re-opens in Kamloops Sept. 16

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University’s Accolades Restaurant has always garnered, well, accolades, and has been featured as one of the top 100 restaurants in Canada for several years running. It’s an achievement no other university restaurant in Canada can claim. Yet even the best need re-imagining. After a one-year hiatus, time spent rethinking and retooling,...

TRU looking to sever ties with Canadian Federation of Students amidst allegations of fraud

KAMLOOPS – The Thompson Rivers University Student Union have supported a motion to separate themselves from the Canadian Federation of Students alleging lies, intimidation and election fraud. During the B.C. Chapter of the Canadian Federation of Students semi-annual meeting earlier this month, members essentially called for a vote of no confidence. “The progressive coalition that...

ELECTION 2015: First debate scheduled for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo federal candidates

KAMLOOPS – The first debate of the federal election has been scheduled for the candidates of the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding. Hosted by CBC Radio Kamloops, Kamloops this Week and CFJC-TV, the event will take place Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Grand Hall at Thompson Rivers University. Chris Foulds, editor of Kamloops this Week, says there are...

TRU to develop policy on sex assault without statistics on campus incidents

"IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ARE HAPPENING ON CAMPUS... THEN HOW CAN YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO ATTACK THE ISSUE?" KAMLOOPS — Thompson Rivers University released an interim protocol to support and respond to students who are victims of sexual assault, but a student who was attacked twice on campus says a developing policy...

TRU law school professor files civil suit against former interim dean

KAMLOOPS — A professor at the newest law school in Canada is suing the program’s former interim dean for defamation alleging she spread a rumour to edge him out as competition and maintain her higher ranking role at the university.  Craig E. Jones, a professor at the recently established Thompson Rivers University law school, filed...

First international sorority for Thompson Rivers University

KAMLOOPS - When school resumes this fall a new sorority will be on campus at Thompson Rivers University. Alpha Theta, the Kamloops chapter of Kappa Beta Gamma, was initiated into the international sorority July 31 and is the 21st active chapter. A total of 10 university students went to Seattle for the initiation over the...

Thompson Rivers University partners with industry to bolster trades program

KAMLOOPS – An agreement between Thompson Rivers University and local heavy industry will help support training for trades students.  An agreement was signed today, July 28, between Domtar, Unifor local 10B and Thompson Rivers University to support the university’s trades students in their training programs. The agreement also vows to, where possible, hire students from...

New trades program in the works for Thompson Rivers University

KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University is preparing to expand its trades program to include instrumentation engineering, thanks in part to $2 million in federal funding. MP Cathy McLeod was on hand today, July 7, to announce the $2 million in federal funding. McLeod said she hopes this latest offering will continue the university’s goal of...

Local university develops international partnership in Mexico

KAMLOOPS - Representatives from Thompson Rivers University’s international department made a formal agreement with a Mexican university this month to provide students at both institutions more opportunities for research and exchange. Baihua Chadwick, the associate vice present and CEO of TRU World Global Operations was in Acapulco June 16 to join Dr. Javier Saldaña from...

TRU professor to spend summer conducting beer research

KAMLOOPS – Whether extracurricular or scholastic, is a reason really needed to conduct beer research? Dr. Jonathan Van Hamme of Thompson Rivers Univeristy is using his microbiology lab to help two local breweries create unique business solutions. He hopes to help the companies save money by reducing the cost of brewing supplies and to sequence...

TRU releases confidential student information (again)

KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University has leaked confidential student information for the second time this year. A copy of an email obtained by InfoNews.ca appears to indicate a student’s name, student number, personal email address and the fact the student was transferring to another school was sent to an active listserve in the department of...

REMINDER: Mock-emergency event at TRU today

KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Rivers University campus is hosting a mock full-scale live emergency scenario from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, May 14. Over 400 emergency personnel and volunteers are expected to participate in the event, which will close some access roads and portions of the campus. Summit Road and McGill Road access points...

Province provides funding for millwright program in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – After years of lobbying the first class of millright students is expected to begin at Thompson Rivers University this coming August, The Ministry of Advanced Education recently announced it would fund 16 seats for a millwright program at the university. A millwright is a tradesperson concerned with the construction or installation of industrial...

Animal welfare advocate named SPCA volunteer of the year

KAMLOOPS – For more than twenty years, Michelle Virdee has volunteered at the Kamloops B.C. SPCA branch. She has witnessed her share of tragedies and triumphs, all in the name of animal welfare. This week she was acknowledged as B.C. SPCA’s Volunteer of the Year for her dedication not only to the society but to...

No need to worry, the emergency you see is just a test

KAMLOOPS - RCMP and administrators at Thompson Rivers University are advising students, staff members and the public there will be a full-scale live emergency operation scenario on campus Thursday, May 14. Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP, said university staff and police spent two years planning the 13-hour exercise scenario which will...

Human rights activist to speak at TRU

KAMLOOPS – Human rights activist Dr. Monia Mazigh will be speaking about Muslim womanat Thompson River University later this month. Mazigh was thrust into the spotlight when she was forced to fight for the release of her husband Maher Arar from a Syrian prison. Arar was detained by the United States when returning back to...

Secwepemc elder preserving language as university ‘lleqméltn’

KAMLOOPS - Learning to speak our first language is a process we likely take for granted. Our families spoke it from the day we were born, we absorbed what they said and learned to speak, read and write it, and then our schools expanded on that knowledge as we got older. For Mona Jules learning...

Kamloops university students get creative with science projects

KAMLOOPS - If you ever found yourself wondering how a zebra got its stripes or how bees communicate, check out some of the latest video projects from science students at Thompson Rivers University.  In their first-year biology class, students were told to answer an odd science question in an entertaining way. The topics range from...