Angel Benally (Political Science, ‘20) was interviewed on her work with FirstNet to build a public-safety broadband network for tribal nations. Indigenous nations, historically underserved populations in terms of cell coverage, stand to gain a crucial tool when responding to emergencies.

On the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, Fort Lewis College students debated the meaning of patriotism in today’s context. In a discussion facilitated by Andrew Gulliford, professor of History and Environmental Studies, the students arrived at differing answers on what patriotism means to them.

Indigenous women are the most underrepresented group of scientists in the field of physics. With a new internship, Fort Lewis College and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to change that.

With their markedly high rates of vaccination, college campuses across Colorado have become safe havens in the COVID-19 pandemic. At a vaccination rate of 92%, Fort Lewis College leads this welcomed trend in public health.

With over 25 years of successful banking experience, Kent Curtis (Business Administration, '82), president & CEO of First Southwest Bank, will serve on the Colorado Bankers Association Board of Directors for a multi-year term.

FLC Project Consultants: Dr. LeManuel Bitsóí, Dr. Majel Boxer Before becoming a college, Fort Lewis was a U.S. military post located in Hesperus, Colorado. The post was decommissioned in 1891. The U.S. government then refitted the vacant facility into a non-reservation boarding school, which operated from 1892 to 1910. Navajo, Ute, and Apache children were the first of many Indigenous...

By Thomas M. Schiefer (Political Science, ‘04) Golf, Roshambo, Marbles, Washers, other forms of gambling with rocks: it would be easy to confuse the trip for something other than a bike adventure through the desert. And yet, there we were, another night under the crisp sky, playing yet another game. The game was simple: teach the group something – anything – in ninety...

By Ben Brewer, student contributor For decades, trees across the Fort Lewis College campus have provided students myriad cultural, educational, and psychological benefits. Now, their presence is receiving official recognition, thanks to an Arbor Day Foundation “Tree Campus USA” certification awarded to FLC in 2019.   To be certified, campuses must establish a campus...

In the 1960s, Herbert E. Owen, the father of FLC’s Biology Department, had a vision to share a garden featuring plants that grow naturally across the Four Corners. In 1969, he hired Preston Somers, who embraced Owen’s idea and, 35 years after Owen’s retirement, helped make that dream a reality. The first iteration of the garden was planted at the site of the current Sitter...

Keep yourself focused and efficient in world of cluttered to-do lists and pressing deadlines.

Spending time in nature might enhance your intelligence with benefits to attention, clear thinking, and creativity.

When was the last time you had an amazing new idea while multi-tasking your way through the day tethered to a screen?

When she craved something sweet, Maddie Sanders (Communication Design, ’21) says her grandmother would send her to the “ginormous honeysuckle bush” behind their family’s garden in Checotah, Oklahoma. Sanders leaned into the saccharine memory as a muse for her collaborative art project, “Reclaiming Roots,” a black-and-white sketched collection of twelve...

“Can salmon people still be salmon people if they aren’t allowed to fish in water that legally belongs to them?” Bridget Groat (Alaska Native) poses the unanswerable to her Indigenous Food Systems class.

Rooted on land she’s known her whole life in Shiprock, New Mexico, Beverly Maxwell (Environmental Biology, ’08) is a farmer, a scientist, a mother, a veteran, and a first-generation college graduate. She lives and works on her farm, Tó’aheedlíinii, the name of her maternal clan, The Water Flows Together people. The farm has served as Maxwell’s true north, guiding...