The Fort Report: Connecting Fort Lewis College

V I D E O O F T H E W E E K

Chad Cheeney, the head endurance coach for the Fort Lewis College cycling team, was featured in a heartfelt promotional video for Kona Bicycles. The video follows Cheeney through a glorious day of riding with the FLC cycling team, Durango Devo, and others.

Coutts & Clark Western Foundation supports women's reproductive health

The FLC Student Health Center received a landmark grant totaling $150,000 for women's reproductive health resources and education. The gift comes from Candice Carson, the president of the Coutts & Clark Western Foundation board of trustees.

A good day to be Indigenous: Highlights from Indigenous Peoples' Day

FLC honored its Indigenous students, staff, and faculty on Indigenous Peoples' Day. The enduring power and cultural significance of Indigenous peoples was on full display with food circles, social dances, and traditional games.

Biology professor weaves together a story of spiders

Ryan Schwarz, an associate professor of Biology, spins tales in The Durango Herald about spiders in the Southwest and beyond. Schwarz encourages people to appreciate spiders for their beauty and many contributions to our ecosystem.

FLC cyclists snap up silver

FLC cycling took home gold in the team relay on the last day of racing at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships at Purgatory Resort. The win was a stunning and rowdy culmination of collegiate racing, with the Skyhawks taking silver in the overall omnium.

VoFLC: Heather Shotton

This week on VoFLC, tune in to hear FLC stories from Heather Shotton, the vice president for Diversity Affairs.

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M O R E N E W S F R O M F L C

Lindsay Nyquist, director of Marketing & Communications, sat down with the Higher Ed Demand Gen podcast to talk about her role as the leader of marketing creatives. Nyquist recounts the impactful branding changes implemented by the FLC Marketing & Communications Department.
Chief Dull Knife College named Eva M. Flying (Exercise Science, ‘90) its new college president. Flying already had an illustrious career establishing and managing health and wellness programs at other higher education institutions across the country.
The third-annual Blue Corn Harvest at the Old Fort Farm in Hesperus, Colorado, was a bonafide success. After conducting an hour-long Indigenous blessing, attendees worked in the fields to harvest the corn—marking the end of the growing season and the beginning of fall.
Kayla Shaggy (Fine Art, ‘17) released her latest comic book Anathema, which follows two Diné twins searching for their mother’s murderer in a medieval landscape. Anathema took six years to produce and features a staggering 44 pages of art.
The Old Fort Farm is collaborating with Primergy to allot 320 acres for a solar panel project. The deal comes at a crucial time as non-renewable energy costs continue to be cost-prohibitive for many families in the Southwest.
Tiffany Miera (Interdisciplinary Studies, ‘09) was honored with the generous Milken Educator Award. The $25,000 award recognizes elementary educators’ contributions to young children’s development.
Andrew Gulliford, professor of History, paints a vivid historical picture of Bears Ears National Monument in his new book Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance. Gulliford’s narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, impacts of uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Indigenous graves that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century ago.

That's hawksome

Melissa Clutter, assistant professor of Geosciences, recently published a hydrology textbook written for an undergraduate audience called The Basics of Groundwater.

The textbook is innovative and uses many pedagogical approaches that uniquely contribute to the field. Much of the book is analogy-based with over 100 unique illustrations to aid the student's understanding of the material.

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