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Testing Tampons for Women's Health Testing Tampons for Women's Health

Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Written by Manhattan Adams, Photos by Manhattan Adams and Donovon Riley

Testing Tampons for Women's Health

Fort Lewis College chemistry researchers investigate heavy metals in tampons.

2025 Hawk Tank Gala 2025 Hawk Tank Gala

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | Written by AJ Repinski

2025 Hawk Tank Gala

Students from the southwest celebrate the end of the business competition. 

Catalyzing Creativity Catalyzing Creativity

Monday, March 24, 2025 | Manhattan Adams

Catalyzing Creativity

Undergraduate Students Get Hands-On Research Experience at Fort Lewis College

The Strategic Repositioning of FLC

Story by Carter Solomon, Photo by Remi Majeski

Higher education is an increasingly competitive environment. Fort Lewis College must take part in a strategic repositioning to remain competitive in the future.

Higher education is an increasingly competitive environment. Fort Lewis College must take part in a strategic repositioning to remain competitive in the future.   The Team   To work towards achieving this goal, a team was built under Mark Jastorff, the vice president for advancement, Jastorff said. This is a new position created to orchestrate this process....

CU Boulder's Leslie Irvine: Animal Self-Identity

Story by Lauren Hammond, Sean Summers, and Dan Riley, Photo by Charine Gonzales

Leslie Irvine is an Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Colorado, Boulder. She specializes in the areas of self and human-animal interaction and has published several works about those topics including books such as, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals” and “The Self in Society.”

Leslie Irvine is an Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Colorado, Boulder. She specializes in the areas of self and human-animal interaction and has published several works about those topics including books such as, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals” and “The Self in Society.”   Irvine came to Fort Lewis College...

Institutional Fee Review Board Meets This Week

Story by Sean Summers and Catherine Wheeler

The Institutional Fee Review Board, a group at Fort Lewis College that reviews student fees for the college, meets once a year to review proposed student fees.

The Institutional Fee Review Board, a group at Fort Lewis College that reviews student fees for the college, meets once a year to review proposed student fees.   The IFRB review is the first step for new fees to be approved. The board is reviewing student fees that are charged per credit hour, Mark Mastalski, the chair of the IFRB, said.   If a fee is approved by the...

Sociology Club Assissting in Black Mesa

Story by Catherine Wheeler and Sean Summers, Image by Hanna Madera

The Fort Lewis College Sociology Club has organized a caravan to Black Mesa in northern Arizona to benefit displaced indigenous peoples.

The Fort Lewis College Sociology Club has organized a caravan to Black Mesa in northern Arizona to benefit displaced indigenous peoples. The purpose of the trip is to help families that have been relocated from their lands, Tomlyn Foran, a sociology club member, said. The families relocated after the U.S. government seized their lands and livestock in the 1970s for strip...

Theatre Auditions: Spring Productions

Story by Lauren Hammond, Photo by Charine Gonzales

The theatre department at Fort Lewis College is nearly finished with their productions for the fall semester of 2014. However, the theatre department held auditions for their spring productions today and will hold them again tomorrow.  

The theatre department at Fort Lewis College is nearly finished with their productions for the fall semester of 2014. However, the theatre department held auditions for their spring productions today and will hold them again tomorrow.   Spring Semester Productions The first performance, “A Chekhovian Sonata,” is a collection of three love stories that will be...

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