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Student Research – Q & A with Steven Holm
BBA Honours grad (’12) Steven Holm surveyed 600 students to research whether the way students pay for education affects how hard they work and the success they achieve. Steven Holm is a 2012 Bachelor...
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Student Research – Q & A with Sara Burchnall
Sara Burchnall, Economics and Accounting grad (2012), investigated Canadian well-being from an economic perspective for a UREAP research project. Sara Burchnall is an Arts and Business Administration...
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Business and Economics launches Kickstart 101 series
School of Business and Economics presents its first-ever Kickstart 101 events series for the 2013-14 academic year. All the speaker events are free of charge and open to all students on campus. The...
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Indigenous land ownership and economic develoment
Hernando de Soto Well-known Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto will share his research, insights, and other findings in what should be an enlightening presentation. When: Oct. 4, 2013 Time: 10-11:15am...
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CIBC donates $150,000 to support business students at Thompson Rivers University
Pictured (left to right): Leanne Hawryluk, Joshua Gibson, Megan Blyth, Jeremy Gale, and Cailee Miner. CIBC’s donation will provide 70 renewable bursary and scholarships awards in Business...
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Larissa Pepper, ACE Co-op Student of the Year
Larissa Pepper, ACE BC/Yukon University Co-op Student of the Year Join the conversation about this on Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #mytru and follow the conversation here. Thompson Rivers...
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Student Janice Yeung Wins Kamloops Distinguished Service Award
The following is from the website The Armchair Mayor News, and was posted April 10, 2014. It highlights Business student Janice Yeung as one of the eight winners of a 2014 City of Kamloops...
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Klassen Wins A Pair Of $5,000 Awards
Matt Klassen Business student Matt Klassen is wearing a $10,000 smile these days. His name was drawn twice for different $5,000 prizes and his name announced at the School of Business and Economics...
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TRU measures its Economic and Social Impacts to Province and Region
One of the slides from the recently-unveiled report highlighting the economic and social impacts TRU has in the region and the province. A recent comprehensive report assesses Thompson Rivers...
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Out of the Comfort Zone
Kate Strangway’s hands-on undergraduate research project pitted a herd of goats against tough invasive weeds like knapweed and thistle. Reprinted from Bridges Magazine Spring 2014, by Bart Cummins and...
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TRU Student A Finalist For Miss India-Canada
BBA student Roopy Plawn is among the 16 finalists in the 2014 Miss India-Canada pageant. The winner will be announced Aug. 16. Thompson Rivers University student Roopam Plawn is days away from learning...
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Company Hires After Great Co-op Experiences
Christian Karl (wearing glasses) is one of the 10 co-op students GE Capital has had over the past few years.So impressed with its co-op students, GE Capital took the plunge and recently hired Karl to a...
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Rent Bank Research Lends Hope to the Homeless
City of Kamloops. Photo by Matthew Tarzwell. What happens to a family in danger of eviction when they can’t pay the rent, or are cut off when their utilities are overdue? Homelessness is often the...
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Oil Services Employer Hiring Non-Trades And Trades
One of Canada’s major industrial employers will be on campus Sept. 17 recruiting people to fill a range of non-trades and trades positions for its Western Canadian operations. Trican Well Service is a...
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Charitable giving in Canada: Who gives and why?
Economics professor Laura Lamb outside Campus Activity Centre with the Brown Family House of the Learning in the background. Economics professors Dr. Laura Lamb and Dr. Belayet Hossain set out to...
View ArticleProfessional selling class puts skills to the test
Third-year students in a professional selling course recently took their class and book learning to the streets to make a difference with Volunteer Kamloops. And in doing so, most of the 44 students...
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Holiday giving continues
A number of individuals across TRU teamed up to buy gift cards for seven student families in need. To dress them up. each family received their cards in a metal tree ornament along with some round,...
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Business students apply skills to aid Kamloops Food Bank Click here to view the embedded video. By Lissa Millar The real challenge in learning comes when theory and methodology are applied to real...
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Business students host third annual HR conference
L-R: TRUSU Human Resource Management Club co-presidents Larissa Pepper and Jasmine Bhangu, with member Breanna Cullinane, at the 2015 Human Resources conference. By Larissa Pepper Sixty-five students...
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Schmietenknop awarded Woman Leader of Tomorrow
Acacia Schmietenknop, right, receives the Enactus Woman Leader of Tomorrow award. The following Enactus announcement was originally published here TORONTO, ONTARIO (May 12, 2015): Acacia...
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