Junior Exercise Science major Joshua Blaylock was named the 2016-17 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Preseason Player of the Year.

Tony Holmquist, associate professor of Art & Design, was named the 2016-17 Featured Scholar in part because of his development of safer art materials.

“To develop a safe environment for my students and fellow printmakers is my goal.”

Fort Lewis College was named to the Sierra Club's list of Cool Schools, which recognizes environmentally friendly institutions.

On the second Monday in October, Fort Lewis College will celebrate not Christopher Columbus, but those residents who were already at home in the so-called New World when the Genoan explorer, sailing under the Spanish flag, stumbled ashore in 1492.

Dr. Kathleen Fine-Dare recently published Hidden Histories of Indigeneity in Urban Andean Ecuador: Transubstantiation, Ceremony, and Intention in Quito, in the Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology.

Marc Reed, chair and associate professor of Music, released his first CD, "Gone But Not Forgotten," on September 30, 2016.

The Ernest Becker Foundation published 2016 Presidential Campaign Ad Analyses written by students in in Psychology Professor Brian Burke's Senior Seminar class on Terror Management Theory.

Paige Gray, visiting instructor of English, published a parenting essay titled, "Kids Don't Need To Understand Grit" in Time.com.

Senior Lecturer of Management, Dr. Chuck Yoos co-authored Informing Students About Information: Seven Semantic Exercises, recently published in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems Journal, Vol. 39, 2016.

Imagine leaving your consistent full-time job to jump on a tour bus with a rock band for the first time. You’re suddenly sharing 400 square feet with 10 other people, working 15 hours per day, and waking up in a new city every morning. And you’re figuring out this new existence on the fly. And it’s your dream come true.

Alumna Kelsy Woodson (Business Administration, '11) has a rockstar dream job helping Yonder Mountain String Band manage their social media and marketing.

There are events for everyone, from student to community member. For a complete schedule, visit www.fortlewis.edu/homecoming.

This partnership will open doors for FLC students, particularly minority students, to collaborate in cutting edge research while preparing them to make the move to graduate school or a career.

Since the spill, organizations across the Four Corners, including Fort Lewis College, have been stepping up efforts to study and monitor the Animas and other area water sources.