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Banking Alumni

With over 25 years of successful banking experience, Kent Curtis (Business Administration, '82), president & CEO of First Southwest Bank, .

Mother Earth: Acknowledging Indigenous Homelands

ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Project Consultants: Dr. LeManuel Bitsóí, Dr. Majel Boxer Before becoming a college, Fort Lewis was a U.S. military post located in Hesperus, Colorado. The post was decommissioned in 1891. The U.S. government then refitted the vacant facility into a non-reservation boarding school, which operated from 1892 to 1910. Navajo, Ute, and Apache children were the first of many Indigenous...

ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ on the White Rim

By Thomas M. Schiefer (Political Science, ‘04) Golf, Roshambo, Marbles, Washers, other forms of gambling with rocks: it would be easy to confuse the trip for something other than a bike adventure through the desert. And yet, there we were, another night under the crisp sky, playing yet another game. The game was simple: teach the group something – anything – in ninety...

Students help make ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ a Tree Campus USA

By Ben Brewer, student contributor For decades, trees across the Fort Lewis College campus have provided students myriad cultural, educational, and psychological benefits. Now, their presence is receiving official recognition, thanks to an Arbor Day Foundation “Tree Campus USA” certification awarded to ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ in 2019.   To be certified, campuses must establish a campus...

Herbert E. Owen Native Plants Garden & Outdoor Classroom

In the 1960s, Herbert E. Owen, the father of ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Biology Department, had a vision to share a garden featuring plants that grow naturally across the Four Corners. In 1969, he hired Preston Somers, who embraced Owen’s idea and, 35 years after Owen’s retirement, helped make that dream a reality. The first iteration of the garden was planted at the site of the current Sitter...

Negative Buoyancy

Keep yourself focused and efficient in world of cluttered to-do lists and pressing deadlines.

Maddie Sanders reclaims her roots

When she craved something sweet, Maddie Sanders (Communication Design, ’21) says her grandmother would send her to the “ginormous honeysuckle bush” behind their family’s garden in Checotah, Oklahoma. Sanders leaned into the saccharine memory as a muse for her collaborative art project, “Reclaiming Roots,” a black-and-white sketched collection of twelve...

Swimming upstream

“Can salmon people still be salmon people if they aren’t allowed to fish in water that legally belongs to them?” Bridget Groat (Alaska Native) poses the unanswerable to her Indigenous Food Systems class.

Beverly Maxwell stays the course

Rooted on land she’s known her whole life in Shiprock, New Mexico, Beverly Maxwell (Environmental Biology, ’08) is a farmer, a scientist, a mother, a veteran, and a first-generation college graduate. She lives and works on her farm, Tó’aheedlíinii, the name of her maternal clan, The Water Flows Together people. The farm has served as Maxwell’s true north, guiding...

ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ's featured scholar brings undergraduates a taste of rare mathematics research

Fort Lewis College Mathematics is one of the smaller, more tightly knit programs on campus, which is exactly what Professor Laura Scull prefers. At ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ, Scull and her students are not only on a first-name basis but they're also collaborators and colleagues, working on world-class concepts. “It’s so great to have a group of students that really want to learn and are willing...

Water in the West

Students, faculty, and alumni dive into the Dolores River watershed.

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