Assistant Professor of Geosciences Mickey Campbell is developing an app for wildlands firefighters in the field that will feature an interactive map keeping them informed in real time of possible escape routes.

Shawn Pensoneau (Political Science, '92) was appointed Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Native American Affairs, overseeing the office's collaboration with American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

Efforts will be focused on addressing teacher shortages in southwest Colorado.

In a series of candid, moving testimonials, FLC students talk about the importance of scholarships, family, Durango, and the change coming to Fort Lewis made in their lives. This film was shown at our 2018 Benefactor's Brunch in November. 

VAP's annual fundraiser will celebrate the work done in Myanmar this past summer and raise funds for the Summer 2019 implementation projects in Myanmar and Nicaragua.

This past summer, two dozen students took a fascinating and highly interactive class that examined the role of disease in history around the world. And not once were the students or the instructor in the same room at the same time.

Russian olive trees – an invasive species – in the 8th Avenue Parking Lot islands were removed and replaced with a selection of native species.

More than 800 mountain bikers from high schools across the state descended on Durango in October to compete in the Colorado Cycling League’s 2018 State Championship.

FLC turned up the fun and beat out more than 60 schools to earn cycling’s 24th national championship.

Don May, professor of Physics & Engineering, received $1 million over five years from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math program to launch the FLC Engineering Scholars Program.

DurangoTV.com aired a segment on the new School of Business Administration course that will be offered starting next year in which a student will win a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise.

Nonpartisan, informational videos by 68 students about the ballot measures in Colorado’s upcoming general election were presented to the La Plata County League of Women Voters at the Center of Southwest Studies.

Associate Professor of Teacher Education Chiara Cannella presented at American Indian Resource Center's Native Educated Teacher Successfully Taught Academic Rigor program at Northeastern State University, in Oklahoma, in October.

The Engineering program at Cornell University recounted the story of how Professor of Physics Ryan Haaland and a Cornell professor from Durango collaborated to send FLC students to Cornell to do summer research.

Four alumni scientists greeted 29 FLC students and two faculty who attended the SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) conference in San Antonio, in early October.