Research, Scholarship and Creative Works

  • October 20, 2021
  • On Earth As It Is — paintings by Chuck Forsman will be on display at the O’Sullivan Art Gallery beginning Oct. 26 until Dec. 3. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, Oct.28 from 4:30-7 p.m. A Gallery talk by the artist will take place on Thursday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m.  


  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently awarded jointly to David MacMillan and Benjamin List for their contributions in asymmetric organocatalysis. Regis’ own Dr. Kateri Ahrendt, Associate Professor in Chemistry, was the first person in MacMillan’s group to work on this project. Dr. Ahrendt developed the first generation imidazolidinone organocatalyst. The paper Dr. Arhendt worked on is referenced in the Nobel Prize announcement. While the Nobel Prize was awarded to two individuals, an extensive number of graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, undergraduate students, and visiting scientists have contributed extensively to this field over the past two decades. The link to the paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society can be found here. Regis subscribes to this journal so it can be accessed on campus or remotely via the library. Huge congratulations to Dr. Ahrendt and to all of those involved in this research! 

  • Dr. Damla Isik, Professor in the department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice in Regis College, has two exciting announcements. She recently published a book chapter, and has also been awarded a grant.  
Isik, Damla. (2021). Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, and Anarchism in Building Resistance in the Classroom. In Amber E. George, (Ed.), Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies. Lanham: Lexington Books. 
In 2022, Dr. Isik will be a visiting professor at University of Macerata as part of an internationalization grant awarded through the university. She will develop research with colleagues as well as give targeted lectures on her research at a Master’s level course on Landscape and Environmental Geography with colleague Simone Betti.   
  • Collaborative, interdisciplinary, participatory and service-oriented course to kick off the Center for Integrative Learning

The first course out of the Center for Integrative Learning in Regis College- Homelessness and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) was a collaboration between faculty from Regis (Dr. Emily Van Houweling) and the University of Denver (Dr. Rene Botta). The course, cross-listed in the Master of Development Practice program (MDP), brought together graduate and undergraduate students from both universities. The research was divided among three teams—policy and media, mapping, and stakeholder analysis. The policy group wrote an editorial as their final project, and it was published in the Colorado Sun. Within the article, you can connect to the work of the mapping group—led by a Regis MDP student—which researched the accessibility of fresh water, restrooms, and showers for people experiencing homelessness in the city of Denver. The ambitious project, and the community relationships developed through it, will continue for the next two years.