Campus & Community FLC Indigenous Garden opens as hub for learning and community The Fort Lewis College Indigenous Garden opens in Durango, creating a space for cultural connection, learning, food sovereignty, healing, and community.
Success Stories For FLC senior, the Water Operations program opens doors to dream internship, career path Testing water and clearing out wastewater equipment, Fort Lewis College senior Valerie Ramirez gained real-world experience, confirming her career goals in water operations
Student Stories From Alaska to Peru, Fort Lewis College students gain hands-on experience through paid internships Students spent the summer gaining hands-on experience in food, energy and water sustainability while working in communities across the U.S. and abroad
Animal encounters turn biologist to the wild side Angela Grogan couldn’t imagine that a rhinoceros would help determine her passion and her career. That was before she spent two summers interning with Out of Africa Wildlife Park, a private zoo in Camp Verde, Arizona.
After nearly 40 years, the Senne scholarship is paying big dividends in the lives of FLC chemistry students In the decades since the Senne’s established their scholarship, dozens of FLC chemistry students have received the award. Recipients have gone on to earn graduate degrees at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions and do important work all over the world.
New hall earns national sustainability award This July, Sitter Family Hall received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The building, completed in Spring 2017 to house the Geosciences and Physics & Engineering Departments, received the nationally-recognized certification for implementing strategies and solutions for environmental and human health performance.
Alumnus Barney Hinkle named new Skyhawks Director of Athletics Fort Lewis College President Dene Thomas announced today that Barney Hinkle has been chosen to lead the athletic department as the Director of Athletics. Hinkle replaces Gary Hunter who resigned in May.
New major trains journalists for a multimedia landscape In some ways, journalism has not changed in a hundred years. Yet today’s multimedia landscape would be unrecognizable to reporters of yesteryear – or even just a few years ago. To prepare the journalists of tomorrow for this kind of media world, Fort Lewis College’s new Journalism & Multimedia Studies major gets students working with contemporary and ever-evolving...
A day in the life of Kaidee [VIDEO] Meet Kaidee Akullo, a first-year student studying public health, who works at the Environmental Center and plays rugby!
Using old ways, lifelong friends farm for the future When it comes to embodying sustainable lifestyles, look no further than these two farmers. James Plate and Max Fields, friends since second grade, attended FLC together and founded Fields to Plate, a farm rooted in quality and responsibility.
Virtual reality filmmaker shows the whole picture It’s a tale as old as photography: you see pictures of a house you might buy, or an event venue you want to book. The shots entice you to call on the place. But when you see it in person, it looks nothing like the photographs. Jordan Alexander cannot count the number of times he witnessed that disappointment while working in real estate.
Hero’s legacy lives on at Fort Lewis College “We are so proud to have Captain Jeff Kuss as a Fort Lewis College alumnus,” say FLC President Dene Thomas. “The way our FLC alumni and the community rallied around the Kuss family and helped FLC make this scholarship a reality shows the impact this young man’s life had on all of us.”
Gift offers over $500,000 for Fort Lewis College scholarships “It’s gratifying to see Fort Lewis College alumni give back to their alma mater in such an important way,” says Keith Newbold, vice chair of the FLC Foundation. “With this gift, the Nords are investing in the lives of the future FLC students who will walk in their footsteps.”