Alumni Profiles
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Quick Rise for Mountaineer Cheer: Team takes 3rd at 2022 Nationals after going varsity in 2019
Mountain Sports at Western: A student’s perspective on what makes it so great
Tom ‘T.J.’ Barber’s Impressive Career 50 Years of Boxing at Western
Mountaineer football to play home games at Katy O. Rady Field
Mountaineer Wrestling takes fourth place at Nationals
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Squeak! Takes Western Alumni on a New Adventure: Capturing the Love of the Outdoors in a Children’s Book Squeak!
An Unforgettable Adventure: Making the world a better place while chasing a dream
The Way Words Change Us – CMarie Fuhrman prods people to persuade themselves
Women of the Land
Western’s Top 10 Reasons Why #IChoseWestern
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The Westerner
University Updates
If there is one defining characteristic about the Gunnison Valley that has been said many times over it is that Gunnison is a home...
University Updates
We are excited to begin to use this grant to support diverse student involvement with cutting-edge research in ecology and environmental sciences in the...
Alumni Profiles
When Scott Borden and Mallory Logan became friends, they never imagined, in their wildest dreams they would one day be working together to release...
Alumni Profiles
Graduating from Western Colorado University during the height of a global pandemic made diving into a career an uncertain pursuit. As the world opened...
Alumni Profiles
Mark Walker’s journey isn’t like most people’s. As a young man attending Western Colorado University during a time of turmoil and protests, it was...
Athletics
Historically, the cheer program at Western had been a club-sport offering until its move to the athletics department with the hiring of head coach...
Athletics
Western’s Mountain Sports program is a unique collegiate athletics program with competitive teams in Nordic skiing, alpine skiing, ski mountaineering, freeride ski and snowboarding,...
Alumni Profiles
“Tom has helped grow the Club by being a part of it for over 50 years. He has so much Boxing knowledge and is...
Athletics
Western will again host the home games of the 2023 Mountaineer football season at Katy O. Rady Soccer Field while the University awaits the...
Athletics
Western Wrestling took fourth place at the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship competition in Indianapolis, Ind. on March 11. It was the best finish...
Athletics
Western’s Nordic team went to Mammoth Lakes, California, March 6-11, looking to claim a title that eluded them last year. When they came home,...
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We’ve turned away from the planet and even our human landscape. If we turned back to that and learned to love all of it,...
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An art professor embarks on a project to paint portraits of the women in the Gunnison Valley who are connected to the land through...
Alumni Profiles
Editor’s Note: We had a wonderful and wide-ranging conversation with Stan. The transcribed interview here has been edited for length. After growing up in...
University Updates
Western earned the reaffirmation of its accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission in July. The vote was a recognition of the University’s commitment to...
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The love held for Western Colorado University by alums, students, staff, and faculty is deep and true. For decades, Mountaineers have gone to great...
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Chris Miller wasn’t expecting to find a piece of film history in her friend’s storage unit. Yet there it was, hidden away in 36...
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When it came time for President Brad Baca to select a cabinet to help bring his vision for Western to life, he knew he...
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Western’s Adult Degree Completion program is giving non-traditional students with unfinished business Of the nearly 500 students who walked across the commencement stage at...
