Undergraduate Research FLC’s seniors display creativity, expression in SURGE Exhibition The Fort Lewis College Art & Design Department hosted its annual SURGE Exhibition, featuring capstone projects from senior Art and Communication Design majors. Curated and designed by the students, the exhibition highlights their creativity and personal expression while offering a platform to share their work with the 鶹Ѹשand Durango communities.
Research & Scholarship Indigenous nutrition conference at 鶹Ѹשhelps connect health, nutrition, culture More than 130 people, including health care professionals, nutrition experts and students attended the conference held at Fort Lewis College April 3-4.
Research & Scholarship Preserving the past & building the future Lacy Miller's internship at the Center for Southwest Studies has helped her master best practices in handling, displaying, storing, and documenting objects while also developing leadership and project management skills.
Deanne Grant and Janine Fitzgerald receive $1,500,000 from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Deanne Grant, assistant professor of Sociology, and Janine Fitzgerald, professor of Sociology, received $1,500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a “Humanities for All Times” project.
Marnie Clay receives $5,000 from Rocky Mountain Health Foundation Marnie Clay, assistant professor of Nutrition and Health Sciences, received $5,000 from Rocky Mountain Health Foundation for a Simple Gifts Fund grant “Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program Pilot.”
In the fall of 2021, 鶹ѸשEnvironment and Sustainability Professor Heidi Steltzer organized a student expedition into the high mountains of the San Juans to search for suspected permafrost. Permafrost persistence in the high southern peaks of Colorado is an understudied phenomenon. Join us on this episode to find out what they discovered!
Jeff McFarlane receives $650,000 from National Institutes of Health Jeff McFarlane, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received $650,000 over four years from the National Institutes of Health for a SURE grant “Characterization of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes from human gut microbes associated with colon and pancreatic cancer.”