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Ms. Janet Dillon - Outstanding Staff Award

Janet Dillon, Systems Developer and Analyst for the ܽƵ Information Technology Department, sees her job as being about creating more efficiency across campus to better serve the students. It’s a task she’s been successful in doing as evidenced by her being named this year’s Outstanding Staff Award winner.

Dr. Steven Fenster - New Faculty Teaching Award

“I see the students who get involved are the ones who seem to be most successful.” With this observation about involvement in mind, Dr. Steven Fenster, Assistant Professor of Biology at Fort Lewis College, finds ways to make his classrooms more than just lecture halls. For him, research represents an important path to engaging his students. It’s one of the reasons he is...

Dr. Lee Frazer - Alice Admire Outstanding Teaching Award

“In my philosophy statement, I echo the educational thinker, Stephen Brookfield, who said, ‘we teach to change the world,’ and I really believe that.” For Dr. Lee Frazer, Assistant Professor of Adventure Education and winner of the Alice Admire Outstanding Teaching Award, changing the world is not a pipe dream. He pursues that goal by helping his students become...

Mr. Colin Smith - Fort Lewis College Achievement Award

When Colin Smith starts his year at Student Orientation, he uses a metaphor that doesn’t particularly ease the minds of the parents who are dropping off their children. He asks, “Do you know those rivers in Africa that the migrating herds must cross? Well, your kids have just come to one.” And then he asks, “Knowing your child, what do you worry about?” This...

ܽƵ Engineering students devise device to study the effectiveness of football helmets

Sports-related head injuries are a major concern today among organizations ranging from the National Football League to youth sports clubs. If Devin Leahy, assistant professor of Engineering at Fort Lewis College, has his way, he and his student research team will soon produce data that help sports equipment manufacturers design helmets that better protect heads from those injuries, thanks to...

ܽƵ Engineering students devise device to study the effectiveness of football helmets

Sports-related head injuries are a major concern today among organizations ranging from the National Football League to youth sports clubs. If Devin Leahy, assistant professor of Engineering at Fort Lewis College, has his way, he and his student research team will soon produce data that help sports equipment manufacturers design helmets that better protect heads from those injuries, thanks to...

Dr. Bill Dodds - Roger Peters Distinguished Professor

Wicked problems are issues that, at first glance, seem to have no solution. Dr. Dodds, this year’s Roger Peters Distinguished Professor, works with his students until they begin to, as he puts it, “poke holes in the problem” on the way to a solution.

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