Grants and Writing Resources for Regis University
A Regis biology graduate accepted the Peace and Justice Studies Association's Best Undergraduate Paper award in October 2025 for community-based research with the Hmong community. Over three years she gathered 15 oral histories, working with the nonprofit Colorado Asian Pacific United, and they became the basis of her Regis honors thesis. On April 4, 2026, 12 Regis students in physics, mathematics, computer science and biology sent two experiments up on a high-altitude balloon through the DemoSat program of the NASA Colorado Space Grant Consortium. One team studied how high-altitude conditions affect a species of roundworm. The other measured how low pressure and high-altitude temperatures affect sound waves.
Research Money for Undergraduates
Undergraduate grants run through the URISE Office (Undergraduate Research, Inquiry, and Scholarly Engagement). Its Student Research and Scholarship Grants come in three sizes: $100 for a mini grant, $500 for a standard grant and $1,000 for a distinguished scholar. A student can hold one research grant per academic year. Student Conference Travel Grants of $500 go toward registration, travel and lodging, and only students who are presenting at the conference qualify.
The same office runs the Undergraduate Research Certificate. Its courses include URC 250, Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Ethics, and URC 495, Communication and Dissemination of Research. Gifts to the Harry L. Taylor Fund for Student Research in Biology pay for student research in that department. The fund is named for a biology professor who co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications with students.
Graduate Research and Travel
The University Research and Scholarship Council funds original scholarly, research and creative projects with money from the Office of the Provost. When the URISE Office took over undergraduate funding in 2023, the provost's office announced that the council would keep funding faculty and graduate student research.
The council's Student Travel Grant pays up to $500 for full-time Regis students to present a specific scholarly project at a conference. Abstracts accepted at peer-reviewed conferences get preference. Recipients present the work at the spring research symposium. On the tuition side, Dean's Scholarships give new students in select graduate programs up to $10,200 over the length of the program.
Honors Theses and Student Journals
Students in the Honors Program build a thesis in stages. The HO 493A and B research seminars apply research methods suited to each student's topic, and in HO 499 the student prepares the finished thesis for a defense or a symposium.
The English Department puts out two student publications. 3333 is a student-edited academic journal that prints writing from students in every part of Regis. Loophole, the department's literary arts journal, comes out each spring.
Writing Help and the Thesis Archive
Writing coaches at The Learning Commons work with any Regis student, faculty member, staff member or alum. Appointments last 30 or 60 minutes, in Room 204 of Dayton Memorial Library on the Northwest Denver Campus or by Zoom, and a paper drop-off option also requires an appointment. Coaches take writing at any stage and in any subject, from brainstorming before a draft exists to source integration and revision. The library's Writing and Citing guide covers AMA, APA, Chicago, CSE and MLA style, and lists 10 free hours of Tutor.com tutoring per student each year.
Finished work goes into ePublications at Regis University, the library's institutional repository. Its theses and dissertations list runs by year from 2012 and holds student work in nursing, environmental biology, philosophy, literature and theology.
Regis students with an honors thesis, capstone or seminar paper in its last draft can send it to our editors for a final edit of grammar, consistency and format. See our Regis University dissertation and thesis editing and Regis University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.
From Our Writing Guides
Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Managing Editor of Editors For Students. Links checked October 2026.
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