Campus & Community

Two Fort Lewis College friends, Allie Wolfe, a senior majoring in Psychology, and Tatyana Trujillo (Environmental Studies, ’20), were inspired to further the message of Black Lives Matter by painting a BLM mural on the iconic east-facing wall of College Drive’s Everyday gas station.

Fort Lewis College ranks in the top ten for campus ethnic diversity at national liberal arts colleges in this year’s Best Colleges report.

The Herbert E. Owen Native Plant Garden was built in 2012 as an educational resource for the Biology Department. It is named for Herb Owen, professor of Biology at FLC from 1955 to 1978 and founder of the department.

New academic hub, TRIO Student Success Center, and TRIO STEM3 received grants that will help support student success and increase retention and graduation rates.

After identifying a perennial herb that had never been reported in Colorado before, Professor of Biology Ross McCauley welcomed three students to join him in a five-week Field Botany class with the goal of the course mirroring McCauley’s venture: to learn how to identify vascular plants while in the field.

The Colorado Department of Higher Education featured Professional Advocate and Case Manager Kate Suazo and her team for their exemplary work in supporting students through the coronavirus pandemic this spring.

Once upon a time, yearbooks served as America’s collegiate scrapbooks, the cradle of institutional memories created by students for students. Records reveal that FLC's yearbook tradition lasted only 30 years. 

Christopher Adam Red and Mary Rubadeau fill two new seats on the Board after it expanded from seven to nine voting members this spring.

The FLC Chemistry Department is now home to two new instruments typically only found at large universities for graduate level research.

Two lifelong pals found friendship in FLC’s Chemistry lab, a place they’d always imagined giving back to, and eventually help pave the way for future chemists.