Where the Learning Never Stops From whitewater rafting through the Grand Canyon to sipping scotch in the Scottish Highlands, the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Adventure Club has a little something for everyone.
Still Climbing After All these Years After graduating in 1988, Stephen Sullivan went on to earn success in the outdoor recreation and business realms. In 2011, he launched Stio, a direct-to-consumer, analytically driven, outdoor apparel company.
Win-win-ternships Thanks to generous donors and a bounty of support from ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Career Services, students can gain invaluable real-world experience while doing a world of good before they even graduate. From farms to radio, Africa to outer space, student interns work alongside professionals in fields of their interests, gaining skills and insight into their future roles beyond the classroom.
Partnerships Beyond Borders Assistant Professor of Health Sciences Tapati Dutta integrates a "glo-cal" (global-local) perspective in the classroom through Participatory Teaching Co-Learning Mechanisms. Her goals and strategies have not only yielded inclusive and equity-based teaching-learning but have also held symbiotic synergies in devising community-academia partnerships.
Cheers to Science Besides serving as an age-old (and age-appropriate) collegiate pastime, alcoholic spirits are also propelling a few Fort Lewis College seniors into the beverage industry spotlight. Hard cider-makers from across the country are looking to the Four Corners and ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Chemistry labs for the latest scientific findings about the relationship between flavor and the fermentation process.
Skiing for NASA In a unique scientific partnership with NASA’s SnowEx field campaign, ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ interns clicked into skis once a week and skinned up the slopes of Red Mountain Pass to the Senator Beck Basin Study Area, researching the snowpack of the San Juan Mountains. An amalgamation of universities and NGOs from around the world, NASA’s SnowEx cosmopolitan team informs hydrologists and...
A Cadre of Counselors In five years, the Four Corners MSW program not only awards graduates bachelor’s degrees from ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ but also their master’s in Social Work from University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work.
There is no I in Team Despite 2020-21 playing out as the most unusual year in college athletics, Skyhawk teams showed up ready to play and make school history.
Partnerships of Yore Learn about two of ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ's historic community partnerships: the Heart Fund Drive and Radio KIUP.
Throughline Art, history, and culture coalesce in Throughline, a student-led exhibit inspired by the collections at the Center of Southwest Studies.
Back to the Rocket Durango's Rocket Drive-in, which operated from 1956-2004, inspired the makeover of ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ's Rocket Grill in Spring 2021.
Grub Hub on Durango Local News With the help of 16 different community sponsors, the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Grub Hub is to students in need.
Durango Mesa Park The 1,850-acre Durango Mesa Park is primed to be developed into a world-class training ground for the elite cycling community of Durango. “I think it will turn out to be our go-to training facility,” says Chad Cheeney, ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ's head coach for endurance cycling.
AHS renderings AndersonMasonDale Architects , which will be built on a 3.2-acre parcel just south of the Bader-Snyder Residence Halls at Fort Lewis College. AHS received a $13.7M grant to build a permanent facility on the College's campus.