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For anyone who has ever struggled to follow a postgraduate’s description of their Ph.D. thesis, the American Association for the Advancement of Science created a solution: . The 15-year-old competition invites scientists of any discipline to explain their Ph.D. thesis through interpretative dance. For flow artist and chemist Checkers Marshall (Chemistry, ’16), it was a match made in nerd heaven.

The Fort Lewis College Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement, or FLC U-RISE, increases access and equity in biomedical research.

Fort Lewis College is one of 104 schools receiving six-year grants as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative. IE3 challenges U.S. colleges and universities to substantially and sustainably build capacity for student belonging, especially for those historically excluded from the sciences.

For every swipe of a Fort Lewis College #FLCFOREVER Loyalty Debit Card, Alpine Bank donates 10 cents to FLC programs. Since the College and Bank partnership launched three years ago, those dimes have added up to nearly $70,000 in direct impact on FLC students.

The Biochemistry program at Fort Lewis College has been approved for accreditation by the American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology through 2027.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Bill Collins, this year’s Featured Scholar, researches the health of honeybees, which are under threat worldwide. 

The FLC Chemistry Department is now home to two new instruments typically only found at large universities for graduate level research.

Two lifelong pals found friendship in FLC’s Chemistry lab, a place they’d always imagined giving back to, and eventually help pave the way for future chemists.

For many Native students, a career in the STEM fields – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – can often seem impossibly out of reach. That's where the American Indian Science & Engineering Society comes in.

Unlike larger institutions where the prime research opportunities are reserved for graduate students, Dr. Collins looks for ways to involve his undergraduate students in his work. Students help maintain the research apiary (beehive) on campus, for example. In the lab, students are synthesizing various molecules and testing their effectiveness against another honey bee adversary, the Varroa mite. 

Insects are what make the agricultural systems in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world go ‘round. In particular, our food system relies on the Western honeybee, the most common species of honeybee worldwide. These honeybees’ most profitable and important work isn’t making honey—it’s pollinating crops such as apples in New York, cherries in Washington, squash and pumpkins in the Midwest, cranberries in Massachusetts, and blueberries in Maine. “We have a lot of great native pollinators,” says Associate Professor of Chemistry Bill Collins. “We have about two hundred fifty species of bumblebees here in North America."

In the decades since the Senne’s established their scholarship, dozens of FLC chemistry students have received the award. Recipients have gone on to earn graduate degrees at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions and do important work all over the world.

Over three months, nine faculty and staff members received grants for their programs and departments, ranging in size from $750 to $120,000.

The Fort Lewis College assistant professor of chemistry was awarded a Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which was followed by her being named a 2017 Cottrell Scholar from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. 

The old adage says that those who can’t do, teach. Joslynn Lee is flipping that adage around—those who can do well, teach even better. In addition to training scientists around the country, Lee (Chemistry, ’06) draws on her own successes as a Native STEM student to mentor others pursuing higher education in any field.

Dr. van Engelenburg is working on ways to help people suffering from genetic disorders in a more precise and safe manner.

Three long-time FLC faculty members were recently honored for their commitment to teaching excellence and lengthy service. The Board of Trustees for Fort Lewis College awarded Professor Emeritus titles to Gordon Cheesewright, Professor of English; William Dodds, Professor of Marketing; and Ron Estler, Professor of Chemistry. Here, the professors share memories and highlights of their time at the College.

For Fort Lewis College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. Katie Mouzakis, being a good teacher boils down to a simple mantra: “If my students are learning, then I am doing my job.”

Each year, Fort Lewis Collegerecognizes the best of the best among faculty and staff with five awards. Below are the winners for 2015-16, along with a quote from their nomination letters.

The Old Fort may be old, but it’s still alive and kicking. And it's still both a living repository of Four Corners history and a place where FLC students, and others in the community, can get their hands dirty learning. Thanks to a management agreement approved in March between the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners and Fort Lewis College, the Old Fort will continue its legacies of local community connection and learning.