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Catalyzing Creativity Catalyzing Creativity

Monday, March 24, 2025 | Manhattan Adams

Catalyzing Creativity

Undergraduate Students Get Hands-On Research Experience at Fort Lewis College
Martin Luther King Jr. March Martin Luther King Jr. March

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Junior Parrish

Martin Luther King Jr. March

Fort Lewis students and staff honor the civil rights leader

Why Does the Sticker Stick with you? Why Does the Sticker Stick with you?

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Izzy Mora

Why Does the Sticker Stick with you?

From bumpers to bottles, Fort Lewis expresses itself through stickers

A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness

A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness

Tiarney Andreas

Thousands of indigenous women go missing, are murdered, or are sexually assaulted in North America every year.

Thousands of indigenous women go missing, are murdered, or are sexually assaulted in North America every year. In honor of these Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, Kelsey Lansing, the Cultural Outreach Coordinator for the Sexual Assault Services Organization has begun an artistic initiative in hopes of raising awareness for these fallen sisters. Touched by the efforts of Tanaya...

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How FLC Students Prepared for the Midterm Elections

Kimberly Cassels

Fort Lewis College students who voted in the midterm elections shared how they gathered information about candidates, amendments and proposals prior to casting their vote.

Fort Lewis College students who voted in the midterm elections shared how they gathered information about candidates, amendments and proposals prior to casting their vote. Many students used Google and the election booklets but also conversed with friends and faculty to educate themselves before casting their votes. CNN and NPR were online sources that FLC Will Berger used. Matt...

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Fort Lewis College Replaces Old Parking Meters

Max Rodgers

Old parking meters were replaced in August for card-friendly meters that can be monitored remotely by Fort Lewis Police.

Old parking meters were replaced in August for card-friendly meters that can be monitored remotely by Fort Lewis Police. The previous meters were 18 years old and due for replacement, said Brett Deming, police chief of Fort Lewis College. The new meters have SIM cards so information ranging from malfunction diagnostics to time expiration can be monitored from a computer in the campus...

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Stemming out: Research beyond the classroom

By Kimberly Cassels

Senior seminar students at Fort Lewis College have the opportunity to work on professional projects for the geoscience and biology departments. 

Senior seminar students at Fort Lewis College have the opportunity to work on professional projects for the geoscience and biology departments.  Geoscience students are working with NASA to create a satellite that will measure the water in snowpack on Red Mountain Pass.  A group of biology students is working on the early stages of the established lung-on-a-chip project, where...

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FLC and City of Durango Partner to Conserve Water

By Max Rodgers

Drought conditions caused by lack of precipitation prompted the City of Durango to partner with its four largest water users and other organizations to restrict water usage by limiting water use for irrigation. 

Drought conditions caused by lack of precipitation prompted the City of Durango to partner with its four largest water users and other organizations to restrict water usage by limiting water use for irrigation.  After a low summer, southern Colorado is expecting increased precipitation this winter. Precipitation this winter is expected to be 33 percent above last year’s,...

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