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Thursday, September 24, 2015
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Farmers and Fishers: Portraits, Words, and Tools
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Farmers and Fishers
Curated by Joseph E. Ingoldsby
Farming and fishing have evolved with the centuries on the South Coast following a tradition of sustainability.The exhibition highlights the innovations and economics from the 18th century to the 21st century.
Dartmouth Town Hall - Third Floor Gallery and Dioramas
400 Slocum Road
Dartmouth, MA
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVx6DTVDHlE
- Topical Areas: University Community, WUMD
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Signups for Men's Club Volleyball Team
- Location: Science and Engineering Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: We are going to start up a men's Club Volleyball Team. Looking for men who have high school volleyball experience to play against other college club teams.
Contact Scott McGarty at smcgarty@umassd.edu . Would like to get players ASAP so we can get the forms in to start the team.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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10:00 AM
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HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'.
Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo.
Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race.
Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression.
royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
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Blackboard Collaborate
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This workshop will demonstrate Collaborate, a live conferencing tool that uses a virtual online classroom to meet live within a myCourses course site. Using Collaborate, faculty can interact virtually with students for lectures, guest presentations, share applications, and meetings. This technology integrates seamlessly into your myCourses site and simply requires speakers and microphone.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development, audience: Staff
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Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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BMEBT Seminar & Thesis Proposal Defense by Abdulrahman Kehail
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
- Description: TOPIC:Production and degradation of microbial synthesized poly (hydroxybutyrate-co- hydroxyhexanoate) polymer: impact on mechanical stability and medical applications
ABSCRACT: The copolymer poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) [P(HB-co-HHx)], is produced by engineered Ralstonia eutropha strains using lipids and fatty acids as carbon feedstocks. The presence of the 3-hydroxyhexanoate (HHx) monomer disrupts the packing of polymer chains, resulting in less numerous polymer crystals and producing a polymer with favorable thermal and mechanical properties. In this study, copolymers varying in HHx content will be recovered from different R. eutropha strains. Tensile constitutive response of solvent-cast samples of PHB and P(HB-co-17mol%HHx), P(HB-co-23mol%HHx), and P(HB-co-30mol%HHx) will be investigated using a custom-built micro-tensile tester. Our preliminary results show that presence and quantity of HHx monomer has a noticeable impact on P(HB-co-HHx) mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, elongation at break, toughness and thermal properties. It was found that with higher content of HHx in the material, the more flexible and tougher the polymer is, and the greater the reduction of Tm and crystallinity.
The challenges associated with using biodegradable, bio-based polymers in resorbable medical devices are; the monitoring of mechanical properties over the course of degradation, and correlation of mechanical properties with application, therefore, the degradation kinetics and crystallization dynamics of the P(HB-co-HHx) polymer in vivo (zebra fish) and in vitro will be investigated by applying tensile testing, indentation, and scanning electron microscopy.
A biodegradable PHA-based anti-biofilm material will be designed by preparing the sheets via solvent-casting and electro-spinning, and immobilizing the antibiotic lysozyme on the membrane, then evaluate its properties against a gram-positive bacteria, such as Rhodococcus, Bacillus, and Clostridium.
By this work, four copolymers will be prepared with different HHx content in order to test its mechanical and thermal properties to have a better understanding between the medical device material and the HHx content. Also, the correlation between the mechanical properties and in vivo and in vitro degradation will be found by implanting PHA in zebrafish and placing it on cell culture plates, and then perform mechanical testing. Moreover, PHA sheets will be prepared to act as an anti-biofilm and load them with antibiotics to prevent and/or cure biofilms that develops in a wounded area.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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4:30 PM
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Technology for Team-Based Learning
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 208
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: LARTS 208 has been designed to support teaching that is conducive to involving students, actively in their own learning. Participants will explore several active learning strategies and scenarios and utilize the technology in the room to engage students and promote active and collaborative learning.
This workshop is limited to College of Arts & Science faculty.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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BuyWays Requisition Approver/Peoplesoft Travel Approver
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Kirk Hellmuth
- Description: How does BuyWays work? What needs approval?
Review BuyWays Approver Workflow process.
Learn how to approve requisitions two ways; via email
or within BuyWays.
Also, a quick review of the Peoplesoft Travel and Expense
Approver process. How to approve Travel Authorizations
and Expense Reports.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission.
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015.
After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music.
As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today."
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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11:30 AM
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Excel Pivot Tables
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This workshop provides a thorough exploration of the use of tables, pivot tables and pivot charts in Excel. Participants create pivot tables to summarize hundreds of rows of transactional data in just a few clicks, without complex formulas, or time-consuming grouping and reorganization. Previous Excel experience is required.
Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799,
or email RLegault@umassd.edu.
Seating is limited, so please register today!
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
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