By Cheryl Jahn

UNBC Partners With TRU and UBCO

Dec 15, 2017 | 9:43 AM

UNBC has joined forces with Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops and UBC-Okanagan to enhance research opportunities between the three institutions. They have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a research partnership.  

“Natural resource development, looking at the impacts and how the environment changes following natural resource extraction. And then taking that into communities working with First Nations communities. That’s a real prime example of something that the three universities would really get behind,” says Dr. Geoff Payne, UNBC’s Vice-President of Research. “As I said, [the universities] each have their unique research strengths, but this is something that, with the three of us working together, we can do some better than we would individually.”

According to UNBC, the three universities form a core of research and innovation talent in the BC Interior that will further develop the innovation ecosystem of the entire region, build and strengthen new and traditional industries, and enhance the overall quality of life.

Dr. Payne says the big winner with this three-way partnership is the graduate students who are doing the research.

“What you want from your graduate student experience is, obviously, you’re working with your home university, but to take that and work in a different environment, a different university and enhance that experience.”

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