Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
TRU promotes physical, mental, and social well-being through comprehensive wellness programs, recreation facilities, and health education. As a world leader in sustainability, we know that the well-being of generations to come is shaped by what we do today, and we act on that responsibility through a campus culture that values balance, resilience, and care for self and community.
Source: Integrated Planning & Effectiveness. (2025). Credentials Awarded Dashboard by Credential Detail FY 2024-25. Thompson Rivers University.
Note: Number of graduates who completed programs classified under Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes 34, 42, and 51.
Hosted by the TRU Wellness Centre, the 10th Annual Consent Tea brought together students, community members and anti-violence advocates through panel discussions and a keynote presentation focused on consent education, sexualized violence prevention, storytelling and community responses to violence.
Led by WolfPack coaches and student-athletes, TRU Athletics offers youth sport camps, training sessions and development programs for children and youth in Kamloops and the surrounding region.
Thompson Rivers University welcomed the annual SWIS Summer Science Camps, organized by Kamloops Immigrant Services, for students in kindergarten through grade 7.
Third-year TRU Nursing students partnered with TRU World and the Interior Health Public Health Unit to develop sexual health education resources for international students, including an informational booklet.
Third-year TRU Nursing students partnered with TRU World to develop health education resources for international students, including a digital poster and a health awareness booth that improved healthcare literacy and access to health information.
The TRU Gymnasium is available for booking. The gym contains a full basketball court, squash and racquetball courts, practice tennis court, and is home to the state-of-the-art Sports Legacy Fund High Performance Centre.
New funding will help TRU researchers explore connections between brain function, vascular health and cognitive aging.
New research is listening directly to Indigenous people displaced by wildfires to better understand if emergency supports meet their needs.
Social work faculty member Dr. Rahul Jain says shifts in how substance use is described can create a more supportive campus environment.
TRU science dean and former wildland firefighter Greg Anderson turns lived trauma into resilience research and mental-health training.
