Skyhawk cyclist saddles up for Team USA Durango and Fort Lewis College are nearly synonymous with world-class mountain biking. This year, a Durango-native FLC alumnus embodied that excellence at the Rio Olympics. Howard Grotts (Mathematics, ’14) won national championships as a junior, which he says put him on USA Cycling’s radar.
MTB Conference Champs The FLC Cycling team won first place at the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference Mountain Bike championships at Angel Fire Resort in New Mexico.
Blythe Morrison Blythe Morrison (Anthropology, '14), was awarded the first-ever Madden scholarship for her graduate work at Northern Arizona University.
SACNAS conference 2016 Thirty-four FLC students and faculty traveled to Long Beach, Calif., to attend the annual conference of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.
IPD Song FLC alumni Mariana Harvey (Indian Studies, '08) and Itsa Shash (Biology, '10) wrote a song for Indigenous Peoples Day that was performed at FLC's celebration by the Bala Sinem Choir.
Dr. Paige Gray Paige Gray, visiting instructor of English, was a guest on Sirius Radio's "The Matt Townsend Show" to discuss her recent Time.com article and the potential pitfalls of America's near obsession with grit.
Longtime FLC provost endows scholarship fund for teachers The fund is designated for students in the College’s Teacher Education program, where Steve got his start.
Joshua Blaylock Junior Exercise Science major Joshua Blaylock was named the 2016-17 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Preseason Player of the Year.
Tony Holmquist Tony Holmquist, associate professor of Art & Design, was named the 2016-17 Featured Scholar in part because of his development of safer art materials.
No more dangerous art (not what you think) “To develop a safe environment for my students and fellow printmakers is my goal.”
Sierra Cool Schools Fort Lewis College was named to the Sierra Club's list of Cool Schools, which recognizes environmentally friendly institutions.
Inaugural holiday celebrates indigenous peoples at FLC 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 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 CD Marc Reed, chair and associate professor of Music, released his first CD, "Gone But Not Forgotten," on September 30, 2016.
Brian Burke political campaigns 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.