Mickey Campbell, assistant professor of Geosciences, and Jesse Tune, assistant professor of Anthropology, established remote sensing methods that better detect the severity of tree mortality in woodlands, as explained in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment.

The FLC Marketing & Communications Department received seven Collegiate Advertising Awards for various marketing pieces, including video and graphic design.

Lee Bitsóí, director of the Diversity Collaborative, says a cultural renaissance of indigenous language and customs in our education system could add an ancestral knowledge of resilience in adapting to climate change. He was a panelist for an Earth Day 50 virtual event.

FLC alumnus Chris Bettin (Business Administration, '92) has turned his company's empty vacation rentals into homes for medical personnel and others displaced by the coronavirus pandemic.

President Stritikus joined an Entangled Solutions town hall last week to talk about the FLC way of keeping students at the center and the importance of equity in higher education.

Donors across the nation are contributing to emergency grants to help students affected by the coronavirus, including the Skyhawk Emergency Fund & Persistence Grants.

Assistant Professor Paul DeBell and Morgan Rutkowski, a double major in Political Science and Psychology, spoke to The Durango Herald about the effects of government restrictions on civil liberties in the time of coronavirus.

FLC has joined the Durango MakerLab's civic task force of more than 100 volunteers who are designing and producing protective equipment for local medical professionals. Check out coverage from The Colorado Sun, The Durango Herald, and FLC.

FLC is doing our part to help protect local responders by donating surplus personal protective equipment, including hundreds of goggles, thousands of gloves, and masks and aprons. The Denver Post and The Durango Herald published stories about our efforts.

The shortened athletics season was especially bittersweet for James Young, the student behind Skyler who didn't get to say his goodbye to fans. Thanks for the life you brought to Skyler and sports at FLC, James!

Stay at home but get outside: Outdoor Pursuits reiterates their call to explore our backyards and reconnect with nature. This year's Seek Your Adventure Award winners set the bar high for the ultimate backyard trip, paddling and peaking their way through the Weminuche Wilderness last summer.

Colleges across the U.S. and in Colorado, including FLC, are realizing major costs as a result of the coronavirus. However, presidents across the state are predicting higher education will be a part of the comeback.

The FLC Board of Trustees has increased from seven Governor-appointed members to nine, and is now required to have at least one trustee be an enrolled member of a federally recognized Native American tribe.

Trillions of dollars have vanished, reappeared, and vanished again in the stock market during the coronavirus global health crisis. Benjamin Waddell, associate professor of Sociology, analyzed how the pandemic's toll on the stock market affects everyone's lives for The Week.

Payson McElveen (Exercise Science, '16) defended his champion title, and rode with the memory of training partner and friend Ben Sonntag (Business Economics, '10), at the muddy Mid South gravel race in Stillwater, Oklahoma.