Celebrations and Announcements
Powanga speaks at Women's Leaders Conference
Dr. Luka Powanga recently spoke at the Women’s Leaders Conference: Growing and Glowing as a Leader Against All Odds in Lilongwe. This photo is him receiving a gift from the Former President of the Republic of Malawi, Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda (on his right), and on his left is Her Excellency Catherine Panza - Former President of the Central African Republic. Thank you for being such a powerful ambassador for Regis!
Ortega mentioned in exhibition review
Tony Ortega’s artwork is mentioned in this review of an exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.
E-reserves update
Due to low use and evolving campus needs, the library will discontinue our e-reserves program at the start of fiscal year 2023 (May 1, 2022). Faculty who used e-reserves in their course during the 2021-2022 academic year will receive their course data via direct email so that they can transfer course materials into WorldClass. For past users (pre-summer 2021) of e-reserves, please contact reserves@regis.edu if you would like to recover any data. The library will provide educational opportunities starting in late summer to support faculty with the transition. If you have any questions, please contact reserves@regis.edu.
Take One Book, One Regis survey
Please take a quick survey to help determine the number of books to purchase for One Book, One Regis.
View recording of Chester Alter Visiting Scholars
If you missed the public event while our Chester Alter Visiting Scholars were here, you can still see the recording. Find it here.
Join Master of Development Practice event
The Master of Development Practice program invites you to join development practitioners and filmmakers for a day of films, short and long, about community development, interspersed with lively discussion of case studies and the process of storytelling through video. Sunday, May 1: Stories from the Grassroots: Lens on Community Development
Readyhough awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Taylor Readyhough was recently awarded the highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) to support her PhD at the University of New Hampshire beginning fall 2022. She is an alumnus of the Regis M.S. in Environmental Biology program and has worked in the Biology department as an affiliate faculty member for the past 4 years.
Hirshberg to give University of Maryland talk
Lauren Hirshberg will give a talk on Tuesday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m. MST at the University of Maryland’s Center for Global Migration Studies. Her talk is titled: Movements in the Marshall Islands: Forced Migration, Segregation, and Protest under US Military Empire during the Cold War. The Zoom is open to the public, and you can receive the link by sending an email to: globalmigration@umd.edu.
Raising awarness about sexual violence
Many thanks to Katie Brown and all of the students involved in the Victim Advocacy and Violence Prevention program for raising awareness and solidarity of sexual violence and assault during April’s awareness month. We hope there is a strong show of support on Thursday, April 21st for Regis’ commemoration of Denim Day.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience hosts events with local elementary schools
The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience hosted an outreach event at Jefferson Academy Elementary School. They took over the 6th grade classrooms for the morning; Regis students taught modules covering neuroanatomy, the auditory and visual systems, motor processing, and somatosensation. The kids got to dissect sheep brains, record their own neural activity, control the movement of their teacher’s arm through modified neuroprosthetics, and hold a human brain. It was an excellent morning teaching this group of nearly 90 6th graders and our Regis Psychology & Neuroscience majors were the stars of the show. Many thanks to Dr. Ashley Fricks-Gleason and Dr. Rona McCall for spearheading this event. To see a collage of photos from the event, click here.
Dr. Lynetta Mier and Dr. Ashley Fricks-Gleason hosted a STEM outreach event at Warder Elementary School. Partnering with the Warder PTA, they brought science enrichment to the kiddos and their parents on a Friday evening. We took over the gymnasium and set up stations covering principles from psychology & neuroscience, chemistry, biology, and physics. The kids learned about neuroanatomy, got to record their own neural activity, extracted DNA from their cheek cells, made model articulated hands, explored non-Newtonian fluids and polymer cross-linking, experienced conservation of angular momentum, and had an absolute blast doing it! Our Regis undergrads were a favorite among the K-5 crowd and their parents were incredibly impressed with the stations our students put together. To see a collage of photos from the event, click here.