Campus & Community

Nineteen-year-old Fort Lewis College student April Yazza wants to spend the next 12 months encouraging Native women to take care of their joints.

For many of us, a college internship helped forge the direction we would follow in our professional careers. Six Fort Lewis College students received such inspiration this summer through the inaugural Four Corners Federal Lands Internship Program.

Earning a mark of excellence recognized worldwide, the Fort Lewis College Engineering program is now accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (http://www.abet.org), the international accrediting body for applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology programs.

Like so many other college students, Shane Saginak came to school searching for the right major and career. Luckily, once he arrived at Fort Lewis College from New York, a little bit of advice helped him find his way

What’s it like to be a student in the FLC Theatre Department? Let students Leah, Austin, and Monique tell you all about their experiences working with faculty, getting involved with different productions, and learning how to get immersed in roles. Theatre professor Dennis Elkins also explains some of his favorite aspects of living in an artistic culture in a mountain town.  

Ask any of the 275 students in the Physics & Engineering Department at Fort Lewis College what a “sprite” is, and they’re probably not going to tell you it’s a soft drink or a green fairy from a mythical land. Their responses might be something more like this:

Ask any of the 275 students in the Physics & Engineering Department at Fort Lewis College what a “sprite” is, and they’re probably not going to tell you it’s a soft drink or a green fairy from a mythical land. Their responses might be something more like this:

One of Fort Lewis College’s own is taking to the skies with the legendary Blue Angels. Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss was named as a F/A-18 demonstration pilot for the Navy’s famous flight squadron. Capt. Kuss is a 2006 graduate of Fort Lewis College with a degree in economics

Demolition began on a section of Berndt Hall that will be the new home of the Fort Lewis College Geosciences, Physics and Engineering (GPE) Building. The new building will be three times larger than the old structure, which was built in 1968. Completion of the new facility is expected in fall 2016. Watch the construction live on our campus web cams.

If you're a Geology major and want to get a sense of what a volcano is like, then you need to stick your rock hammer into fresh lava.