Blog category: Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Ruth Wrightsman joined the Flathead Valley Community College faculty in 2009 and has since transformed the college’s biology department. A four-time National Science Foundation (NSF) awardee, Dr. Wrightsman created FVCC’s first biotechnology program and has inspired several students to...

FVCC botany teacher leads jungle excursion Story by RYAN MURRAY/Daily Inter Lake, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 Mirabai McCarthy likes ferns. That isn’t a typical way to describe someone, but for the botany professor at Flathead Valley Community College, it’s fitting....

FVCC professor returns from Australia projects By RYAN MURRAY/Daily Inter Lake, Monday, March 9, 2015 Photo credit: Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake After spending six months transforming a massive Australian university, a Flathead Valley Community College professor said returning to the comparably...

Ivan Lorentzen calls joining the FVCC faculty in 1971 at the age of 24 a “fortunate accident” as his position was funded through a grant that was awarded at the last minute.  Forty years later, Lorentzen is still going strong...

Teacher sees technology as 'important part of our story' By RYAN MURRAY/Daily Inter Lake, Monday, April 13, 2015 Photo credit: Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake In Conrad Rauscher’s estimation, technology will be the lasting impact of the early 21st century. That’s...