Durango is the kind of place people escape to, not from. It’s also the kind of place where people are always game for a new challenge. That knowledge was a primary reason Hanna Pierce felt confident opening Conundrum Escape Rooms in downtown Durango. Now nearly two years old, Conundrum offers two escape rooms and a board game store. What it really offers, though, is the chance for people...

Simon Walls, associate professor of Marketing, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado.

Junior Chemistry major Lexi Dobbs earned the Physical Chemistry Division's Outstanding Student Poster Award at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In short, NASM accreditation is a mark of excellence for schools of music, big and small. Earning accreditation is an intensive process that can take years to complete, but the end result is an important reassurance to students and parents that the education they’ll receive is top notch.

Amy (Mohr) Bahl (Exercise Science, '05), head coach at Evergreen High School, was named 2018 All-Colorado girls coach of the year as her team scored their fourth Class 4A title.

Associate Professor of Public Health Kevin Griffith says global health is who he is. Global health initiatives are certainly a large part of Griffith’s professional life—he brings a decade’s experience as a medical officer with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) to his teaching at Fort Lewis College, and he continues to serve the President’s Malaria...

“Our finalists all bring incredible energy, expertise and focus to Fort Lewis College, as well as strong commitment to our historic mission,” said Steve Short, chair of the Board of Trustees for Fort Lewis College. “I encourage our students, faculty, staff, administrators and the Durango community to take the upcoming opportunities to meet them.”

Kayla Shaggy (Art, '17) celebrates Women's History Month with a comic honoring her grandmother.

Majel Boxer was elected the 2018-2019 President of the American Indian Studies Association at the annual meeting held this last February in Tempe, Arizona.

FLC has been ranked the #1 most diverse college in Colorado by CollegeFactual.com.

Theresa Hilliard was elected to the Colorado Association of Certified Public Accountants (COCPA) Educational Foundation, which provides scholarships to students in Colorado who are on the path to a career as a CPA.

“Duranium,” a film created and edited by FLC students, garnered a large turnout last month at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival in Golden.

Sophomore Business Administration major Vivian Gray has been voted the HERO SPORTS Fan Choice Women's Basketball Newcomer of the Year.

Eleven FLC students and two professors gave back to the community over their spring break by installing solar panels on a chapter house in the Navajo Nation.

When Dolph Kuss first arrived in Durango in 1953, he says he was "one of the few people other than cattle people who'd ever go into what is now the Weminuche Wilderness Area. I'd come back and people would ask me, 'What did it look like up there?'" Kuss says. Thanks to Kuss and a band of followers, students at Fort Lewis College today don’t have to ask those...