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Sunday, April 26, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
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  • Catholic Mass
  • Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
  • Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
  • Description: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233. All are welcome.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
«  4/16 - 5/1  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
  • Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940) Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1 Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred. The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM. The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition. The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming. We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)" Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org. Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Catholic Mass
  • Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Cost: Free!
  • Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the Reflection Room on the second floor of the Campus Center (Room 233). All are welcome.
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
«  4/9 - 4/29  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: April 9-29, 2015 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-3 PM Location: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 508.961.3072, www.newbedfordart.org Admission: Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members & Children under 16 free. Free for exhibiting artists and their guests. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-9 PM
  • 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
Monday, April 27, 2015
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Samuel G. Benoit
  • Location: Textiles Building 101E
  • Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Description: The Mechanical Engineering Department is pleased to announce the MS THESIS DEFENSE of Mr. Samuel G. Benoit April 27, 2015 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Textile Building, Room 101E TOPIC: ADVANCED ALUMINUM ALLOYS FOR USE IN UNDERWATER APPLICATIONS ABSTRACT: Three aluminum alloys, 7085-OCR3 (Optimized Corrosion Resistance), 7175-T7452, and Al-Sc (Aluminum Scandium) are investigated. The properties of tensile strength, percent elongation, resistance to localized corrosion, and fracture toughness were of interest. 7085-OCR3 and 7175-T7425 samples were machined from a 21 in diameter tubular forging manufactured by a reverse impact extrusion process. The Al-Sc forging was 14 in diameter and manufactured by a rolling process. Samples were taken for each test in such a way that they were oriented in three principle working directions: radial, circumferential, and longitudinal. Tensile tests were conducted according to ASTM E-8 on standard 4 dogbones, or 2.5 modified dogbones. Fracture toughness testing was conducted in accordance with ASTM E-1820-01 on standard 0.5 compact tension (CT) specimens. The localized corrosion investigation was performed by implementing both a submersion test to observed exfoliation corrosion as well as a galvanostaircase polarization (GSCP) test, ASTM G34 and ASTM G100, respectively. 7085-OCR3 far outperformed the 7175-T7452 and Al-Sc in terms of mode-I fracture toughness. It is proposed that the reduced levels on iron and silicon found in 7085-OCR3 are responsible for the increase in fracture toughness as compared to 7175-T7452. ADVISOR: Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra, Dr. John Rice, Dr. Robert Doleski Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra (vchalivendra@umassd.edu, 508-910-6572) Thank you.
  • Topical Areas: University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
«  4/16 - 5/1  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
  • Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940) Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1 Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred. The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM. The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition. The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming. We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)" Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org. Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Cory R. Klokman
  • Location: Science and Engineering Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: IMPLEMENTATION OF FROST THAW PREDICTION MODELS USING PYTHON LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Every transportation department has its own methodology for posting spring load restrictions. There is no national unified system for scheduling SLRs. Typically the SLRs are determined locally by DOT District Engineers. Whether it is a visual inspection or a science-based decision, it is ultimately their call. For example, Maine DOT has historically relied on inspectional methods (i.e., when water is observed pumping through cracks in the roadway) to post SLRs. They now take air temperature indices into consideration for scheduling SLRs because of the discovered correlation between air temperature indices and pavement strength during spring thaw. This project focuses mainly on a practical application of these models and their integration. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier Committee Members: Prof. Philip H. Viall, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Paul Fortier at 508.999.8544, or by via email at pfortier@umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Catholic Mass
  • Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
  • Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
  • Description: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233. All are welcome.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
«  4/9 - 4/29  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: April 9-29, 2015 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-3 PM Location: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 508.961.3072, www.newbedfordart.org Admission: Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members & Children under 16 free. Free for exhibiting artists and their guests. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-9 PM
  • 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
12:00 PM - 4/28  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Open House: Language Learning Multimedia Center
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Cost: No Charge
  • Contact: Foreign Literature & Languages Department
  • Description: Please join us in LARTS Rm. 207 on Monday, April 27, 12-2 pm and/or Tuesday, April 28, 3:30-5 pm to celebrate the renovation of our Language Learning Multimedia Center (LLMC) and to express our appreciation to Professor Sandra Rivera for her hard work in making this renovation a reality. This Open House will include an introduction to our LLMC philosophy and feature short tours and demonstrations of what this space now has to offer. Our staff will be on hand to conduct a short question and answer session and we will also discuss ideas for the implementation of future project-based multimedia in our classes. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Mark Simms-Jazz Piano Recital
  • Location: CVPA Room 104
  • Contact: Music Department
  • Description: Mark Simms Jazz Piano Recital
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Sister Madeleine Clemence Vaillot Scholarship Day
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: The College of Nursing Sister Madeleine Clemence Scholarship Day is on Tuesday April 28, 2015. This is a celebration of student scholarly achievements within the College of Nursing during the past academic year. Students at all levels of the program present both orally and in poster format, scholarly work created in courses. The poster presentation is from 3-4:00pm in the Library Living Room and the Oral presentations are from 4:00pm-6:00pm in the Library Grand Reading Room. Refreshments will be served. Contact Barbara Santos 508.999.8591
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, University Community, College of Nursing, Students, Undergraduate
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Indoor air quality (IAQ) refers to the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants. In this information session, participants will learn more about: - IAQ issues and conditions leading to IAQ issues, - Regulations and guidelines for dealing with IAQ - What can be done Facilitated by: Bob Casparius Questions? Contact Sheila Whitaker, X8045
  • Topical Areas: Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Human Resources
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Faculty & Staff Mindfulness Meditation
  • Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Weekly meeting for faculty and staff who are interested in learning about and practicing mindfulness meditation. This technique has been shown to increase cortical density in areas of the brain associated with cognitive and attentional control and emotional regulation. Practice with mindfulness meditation has been found to reduce anxiety and stress, increase attentional abilities and supplement socio-emotional functioning. No experience is required, and drop-ins are more than welcome. This event is to repeat weekly for the Spring 2015 semester, excluding Feb. 17th and March 17th. Please contact Aminda O'Hare (aohare@umassd.edu or ext. 8761) for more information.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Redesigning Research Methods
  • Location: OFD Lounge, Library 220
  • Contact: Office of Faculty Development
  • Description: Presented by Prof. Viviane Hanna, Tammi Arford (CJS) The focus of our curricular redesign was the new Research Methods for Justice Studies course (CJS 315). Research Methods is a core, required course in which students learn and develop skills that are fundamental to success in their other coursework and applicable in their future careers. As we were still creating the Department’s learning goals and objectives last year, this project provided the opportunity to develop both the departmental objectives related to research as well as the specific learning outcomes for the Research Methods course. Additionally, we were able to: 1) redesign the course so that it has a greater emphasis on epistemology and the ethics of conducting research; 2) create new assessment tools related to the course learning outcomes; and 3) locate and assign Open Education Resources so that students do not have to purchase expensive materials. The focus on epistemology and ethics proved to be beneficial for student learning, while the use of Open Education Resources was met with mixed results. Lunch will be provided, please register through the main calendar.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • CANCELLED: Getting Started & Grading in myCourses
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: Attend TWO workshop in TWO hours! Getting Started in myCourses and myCourses Grading offered back-to-back This face-to-face workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the teaching and learning features of (myCourses) Blackboard Learn. You will learn about the roles an instructor plays in the online environment and identify key attributes for success. From there, you will learn how to set up the Course Menu, your students' access point to tools and content, and how to create Content Areas that contain materials, tools, and resources. You will have the opportunity to add a course structure to your development course, allowing you to learn about Blackboard Learn tools and features as you experience them in the course environment. You will become familiar with some common start-up tasks, such as creating announcements, adding a syllabus, adding calendar entries, and setting up assignments Finally, you will view the course as a student to become familiar with how the course environment appears to your own students. As a student, you will learn how to access and navigate through tools and content. In this hands-on workshop participants learn how to set up, organize and manage student records, add columns to the student table to enter grades, export and import grades and manage the grade book settings.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Workshops+%26+Events
  • Topical Areas: topic: Faculty Development, audience: Staff, audience: Faculty, Workshop, Training
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Guitar Ensemble and Latin Jazz Concert
  • Location: CVPA Room 104
  • Contact: Music Department
  • Description: Guitar Ensemble and Latin Jazz Concert
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Wind Ensemble Concert
  • Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium , UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
  • Contact: Music Department
  • Description: Wind Ensemble Concert
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Managing Research Data, Part 2
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128
  • Cost: Free!
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: The Library has partnered with CITS and SPA to assist members of the campus community manage their research data, and this workshop series is one part of that initiative. First we will show a broad overview of what data management is and show you a tool (DMPTool) you can use to deposit your plans for managing your research data. Next we will take a look at what metadata is and play with a tool (TeX) you can use for document formatting. Last we will work with a tool (OpenRefine) which will curate your messy data and play around with theory on version controls and backlogs. The class will be taught in two sequences. The first sequence is for faculty and staff only and is sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development. The second sequence is open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. You do not need to attend every class in a sequence, and faculty/staff may attend from a mix of sequences. For more information please visit the Data Workshop Wiki at http://dataworkshop.umassd.wikispaces.net/Welcome or contact Zac Painter, Engineering & Data Services Librarian: Email ZPainter@umassd.edu, or call 508-999-8886.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
«  4/16 - 5/1  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
  • Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940) Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1 Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred. The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM. The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition. The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming. We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)" Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org. Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Three Minute Thesis Competition - Undergraduate Preliminary
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition which challenges students to present a compelling oration on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes. The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The top six presenters will advance to the combined undergraduate/graduate finale. This event will be held in Room 207 of the Claire T. Carney Library. Contact Nancy Lenon-Robillard for additional details - extension 8018 or nrobillard@umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
«  4/9 - 4/29  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: April 9-29, 2015 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-3 PM Location: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 508.961.3072, www.newbedfordart.org Admission: Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members & Children under 16 free. Free for exhibiting artists and their guests. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-9 PM
  • 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
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Catholic Mass
  • Location: Law School , 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
  • Description: Law School, Room 116. All are welcome.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
«  4/27 - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Open House: Language Learning Multimedia Center
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Cost: No Charge
  • Contact: Foreign Literature & Languages Department
  • Description: Please join us in LARTS Rm. 207 on Monday, April 27, 12-2 pm and/or Tuesday, April 28, 3:30-5 pm to celebrate the renovation of our Language Learning Multimedia Center (LLMC) and to express our appreciation to Professor Sandra Rivera for her hard work in making this renovation a reality. This Open House will include an introduction to our LLMC philosophy and feature short tours and demonstrations of what this space now has to offer. Our staff will be on hand to conduct a short question and answer session and we will also discuss ideas for the implementation of future project-based multimedia in our classes. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Three Minute Thesis Competition - Graduate Preliminary
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition which challenges students to present a compelling oration on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes. The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students' capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The top six presenters will advance to the combined undergraduate/graduate finale. Contact Nancy Lenon-Robillard for additional details - extension 8018 or nrobillard@umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • An Afternoon with Mo Willems
  • Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium) , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: Boivin Center for French Language & Culture
  • Description: The Boivin Center for French Language and Culture culminates its month long celebration of its 30th anniversary by presenting a lecture by Mo Willems. Mo Willems is an author, illustrator and animator of children's stories. From 1993 to 2002, he worked as a writer and animator for Sesame Street where he earned six Emmy awards. He left his career in television to pursue a career in writing and to be a stay at home father to his daughter. He has written numerous children's books, three of which have received the Caldecott honor-Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Recently, Mo and his family spent a year in France which will be the topic of this lecture. A Q&A, book signing and light reception will follow the lecture to be held in the Main Auditorium on the UMass Dartmouth campus on April 29th at 4 PM.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Jason Stanley on "How Propaganda Works"
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: Philosophy Association
  • Description: Come see a star in Philosophy, Jason Stanley, give a presentation on his latest book, "How Propaganda Works" and his radical theory of the nature of propaganda. It's truly a relevant topic for our times. The presentation will be in room 118 of the Liberal Arts Building. You can contact philosophyassociationumd@gmail.com for more info. This event is put on by the UMD Philosophy Association.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Philosophy
8:00 PM - 4/30  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • WRC Write-in
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Do you like company? Do you like late night comfort food? Do you want to have both in one room to help you push through your last papers of the year? Then come to our first annual INTERNATIONAL WRITE-IN, sponsored by ARC/Writing and Reading Center tutors, on Wednesday night, April 29th, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m., in the Library,Room 319. We're joining over 40 schools across the country/world next week who are hosting write-ins at their campuses. Writing Center tutors will be circulating to work with anyone who wants to talk about their papers. If you want to commit to attending as a way to make sure you won't put off your paper-writing, sign up at arc_writingcenter@umassd.edu Also, if you need us to reserve a library laptop for you, let us know at that same address: arc_writingcenter@umassd.edu -- and tell us your arrival time. Follow all participating schools at hashtag #intlwritein or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NationalWriteIn
  • Topical Areas: Students, Writing and Reading Center
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Computational Science Seminar
  • Location: Textiles Building 105
  • Contact: Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research
  • Description: The Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research announces the following seminar. Speaker: Xiaozhe Hu (Tufts University) Title: "Algebraic Multigrid Method and Its Parallelization" Time: Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 2pm-3pm Location: Textiles 105 Abstract: Developing parallel algorithms for solving large-scale sparse linear systems is an important and challenging task in scientific computing and practical applications. In this talk, I will introduce the unsmoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid method for solving large-scale linear systems. I will give theoretical justifications of its optimality for model problems and its parallelization, especially on graphic processing units. Two different parallel approaches will be discussed and numerical results will be presented to demonstrate their efficiency. For additional information, see the CSCVR webpage http://cscvr.umassd.edu/seminars.html, or contact Akil Narayan at akil.narayan@umassd.edu or 508-999-8318.
  • Link: http://cscvr.umassd.edu/seminars.html
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Employee Assistance Program- Supervisor Orientation
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is free and confidential service, provided by your employer that offers help with personal and work-related issues. Professionally trained consultants are available to help with family problems, marital concerns, financial and legal matters, stress, depression, and other issues affecting your personal or work life. In this workshop, you’ll learn when and how to refer an employee to the EAP or assist them on how to seek help on their own. Location: Lib314 For questions, contact Sheila Whitaker, X8045
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Human Resources
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Javanese Gamelan Concert
  • Location: CVPA Room 104
  • Contact: Music Department
  • Description: Gamelan Concert
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
«  4/16 - 5/1  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
  • Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940) Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1 Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred. The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM. The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition. The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming. We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)" Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org. Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • WRC Creative Writers' Circle
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: We are a group of students representing all majors from many different backgrounds who will come together to share poetry,short stories,songs,novels, video games -- ANY CREATIVE OUTLET IS WELCOME! You don't have to come with your own personal work; join discussions, conversational feedback and fun! At the Writing Center in LARTS220. Contact tbrown4@umassd.edu or kwood1@umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, English, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Academic Resource Center
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Catholic Mass
  • Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
  • Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
  • Description: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233. All are welcome.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
«  4/9 - 5:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: April 9-29, 2015 2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-3 PM Location: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 508.961.3072, www.newbedfordart.org Admission: Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members & Children under 16 free. Free for exhibiting artists and their guests. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-9 PM
  • 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
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Law- Wednesday April 29, 2015 Last Day of Classes
  • Location: Law School , 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Law- Wednesday April 29, 2015 Last Day of Classes
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
Thursday, April 30, 2015
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Three Minute Thesis Competition - Grand Finale
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition which challenges students to present a compelling oration on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes. The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students' capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. In this finale the top six finalists from the undergraduate preliminary round and the graduate preliminary round will compete for cash prizes. Contact Nancy Lenon-Robillard for additional details - extension 8018 or nrobillard@umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
«  4/16 - 5/1  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
  • Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940) Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1 Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred. The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM. The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition. The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming. We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)" Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org. Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Center for Marketing Research Celebrity/Scholarship Dinner
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Cost: $90 or $850 for table of 10
  • Contact: Center for Marketing Research
  • Description: Red Sox World Series Manager John Farrell will be the guest. He will be available to pass out scholarships, take photos and give autographs as well as share insights into his life and the upcoming baseball season. The event will be held at the Venus de Milo is Swansea, MA.
  • Link: www.umassd.edu/cmr
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Marketing Research
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Jazz Ensemble Concert
  • Location: CVPA Room 104
  • Contact: Music Department
  • Description: Jazz Ensemble Concert in CVPA Room 104
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
Friday, May 1, 2015
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Fidelity Representative on Campus
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Individual counseling sessions regarding financial/retirement planning. You can discuss your personal financial situation with an experienced Fidelity consultant on a confidential basis. They are available to discuss how to help you achieve your financial goals by investing in financial solutions such as mutual funds, brokerage, life insurance and annuities. Please contact Diana Valsky @ diana.valsky@fmr.com or 617-777-4770 to schedule an appointment. Appointments will be held in CCB room 306.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Master of Science Thesis Defense: Benjamin W. Lee
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: CLASS D POWER AMPLIFIER FOR DRIVING A PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: A class D power amplifier was developed and tested. The intended load is a piezoelectric transducer but other loads may be used with the amplifier design. The target specifications of the amplifier are 300 W power delivered to a 4 Ω resistive load, a frequency response of 1 kHz to 40 kHz, and a THD of 2% or lower. The design of the amplifier utilizes BD modulation, a MOSFET H-bridge, and dominant-pole compensated pre-filter voltage feedback. The class D amplifier was implemented on a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB was assembled and tested and confirmed to meet the target specifications. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown Committee Members: Dr. Robert Helgeland and Dr. David Rancour, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Corey Bachand, BTech Acoustics LLC *For further information, please contact Dr. David Brown via email at dbrown@umassd.edu.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • BMEBT Seminar Presentation by Ms. Manisha Jassal
  • Location: Textiles Building 101E
  • Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
  • Description: TOPIC: ELECTROSPUN FIBERS: SMALL SIZE, BIG IMPACT ABSTRACT:Tissue regeneration relies on building carefully crafted scaffold material in the micron-submicron scale and imparting specific functionality to the scaffold material surface in order to mimic the in vivo environment closely in terms of chemical composition, morphology, and surface functional groups. Fibrous meshes with structural features at the micron-submicron level for ideal 3D tissue regeneration scaffolds can be an inexpensive scale up option. Bio-inert polymers lack the functional motifs for specific bioactivity; however, functionalization of the scaffolds can provide biological functions to actively induce tissue regeneration and promote cell adhesion by targeting specific cell-matrix interactions. It is therefore important to characterize the scaffolds and understand the relationship between the efficacy of the functionalization, the surface properties of the scaffolds, and their biological performance. Another aspect of polymer functionalization is to target controlled drug delivery. Controlled drug delivery is required to improve the therapeutic efficacy of the drug and to reduce the potential toxic effects by delivering the drug at a rate governed by the physiological need of the site of action. Electrospun polymeric fibers have gained wide spread attention as potential drug delivery system because the drug release profile can be controlled by altering scaffold properties as composition, fiber morphology, porosity, surface coating, and form/state of drug molecule. In the current study, poly(caprolactone) (PCL) fibers were fabricated by electrospinning, followed by various treatments to introduce functional groups on the fiber surface. The functionalized electrospun PCL fibers were characterized through scanning electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography and the cellular response was studied for these scaffolds. Also, the functional groups introduced via hydrolysis (-COOH) can be ionized by manipulation of pH to impart a negative charge to the fiber surface. Similarly, doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX), an FDA approved anticancer drug, could be ionized to impart a positive charge at certain pH. The pH-sensitivity of both the materials was utilized to bind DOX electrostatically to the functionalized PCL fibers, with an aim to create pH-responsive drug delivery vehicle for targeted site-specific delivery of DOX. Results indicate successful electrostatic binding of DOX to functionalized electrospun PCL fibers, a high drug payload and the drug delivery response can be modulated by introduction of suitable stimuli (pH in this case). Future work would concentrate on a formulation of a composite drug delivery vehicle combining electrospun scaffolds with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogels that can release acid near the scaffolds to trigger drug release by changing the pH of the surrounding area.
  • Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, College of Engineering
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
«  4/16 - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
  • Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940) Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1 Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred. The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM. The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition. The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming. We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)" Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org. Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Joint BioMedical Engineering / BioTech (BMEBT) and Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Seminar
  • Location: Textiles Building 101E
  • Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
  • Description: SPEAKER: Ms. Manisha Jassal, BMEBT Program Doctoral Student at UMass Dartmouth TOPIC: Electrospun Fibers: Small Size, Big Impact ABSTRACT: Tissue regeneration relies on building carefully crafted scaffold material in the micron-submicron scale and imparting specific functionality to the scaffold material surface in order to mimic the in vivo environment closely in terms of chemical composition, morphology, and surface functional groups. Fibrous meshes with structural features at the micron-submicron level for ideal 3D tissue regeneration scaffolds can be an inexpensive scale up option. Bio-inert polymers lack the functional motifs for specific bioactivity; however, functionalization of the scaffolds can provide biological functions to actively induce tissue regeneration and promote cell adhesion by targeting specific cell-matrix interactions. It is therefore important to characterize the scaffolds and understand the relationship between the efficacy of the functionalization, the surface properties of the scaffolds, and their biological performance. Another aspect of polymer functionalization is to target controlled drug delivery. Controlled drug delivery is required to improve the therapeutic efficacy of the drug and to reduce the potential toxic effects by delivering the drug at a rate governed by the physiological need of the site of action. Electrospun polymeric fibers have gained wide spread attention as potential drug delivery system because the drug release profile can be controlled by altering scaffold properties as composition, fiber morphology, porosity, surface coating, and form/state of drug molecule. In the current study, poly(caprolactone) (PCL) fibers were fabricated by electrospinning, followed by various treatments to introduce functional groups on the fiber surface. The functionalized electrospun PCL fibers were characterized through scanning electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography and the cellular response was studied for these scaffolds. Also, the functional groups introduced via hydrolysis (-COOH) can be ionized by manipulation of pH to impart a negative charge to the fiber surface. Similarly, doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX), an FDA approved anticancer drug, could be ionized to impart a positive charge at certain pH. The pH-sensitivity of both the materials was utilized to bind DOX electrostatically to the functionalized PCL fibers, with an aim to create pH-responsive drug delivery vehicle for targeted site-specific delivery of DOX. Results indicate successful electrostatic binding of DOX to functionalized electrospun PCL fibers, a high drug payload and the drug delivery response can be modulated by introduction of suitable stimuli (pH in this case). Future work would concentrate on a formulation of a composite drug delivery vehicle combining electrospun scaffolds with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogels that can release acid near the scaffolds to trigger drug release by changing the pH of the surrounding area. Brief BIO: Manisha Jassal is a doctoral student in BMEBT program at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She has received her Bachelor in Textile Technology from National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India, Master in Textile Technology from The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani, India and Master in Science (BMEBT) at UMass Dartmouth. Her research focuses on functionalization and characterization of sub-micron sized electrospun fibers for applications such as tissue engineering, environmental engineering and drug delivery. Her work has been published in different textile, tissue engineering and environmental engineering journals. For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coordinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496). Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome. First year MNE MS students are required to attend; all MNE students are encouraged to attend.
  • Topical Areas: Students, Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Indic Studies Patanjali Lecture" Poetry as a Means of Self-betterment"
  • Location: Violette Research Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: Center for Indic Studies
  • Description: Center for Indic Studies announces: Patanjali Lecture "(Sanskrit) Poetry as a Means of Self-betterment: Some Thoughts from India's Classical Traditions" Speaker: David Buchta, Brown University Friday, May 1st 2015 Time: 12-2pm Venue: Indic Studies Conference Room - Viollette 201 The humanities, including the study and composition of poetry, have come to be undervalued in contemporary society. Sanskrit poeticians offer an important corrective, making claims about the ability of poetry to function as a means of self-betterment, from developing insight into the ways of the world to the attainment of transcendent spiritual joy. The great grammarian, Patanjali, made claims for the particularly powerful nature of the Sanskrit language, claims which might broadened to apply to refined language more generally. In his talk, Dr. Buchta will consider these various claims and provide illustrative examples from the great Sanskrit poets. For further information see contact: 508-999-8470/pwaknis@umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
Saturday, May 2, 2015
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Marissa Arponen-Senior Percussion Recital
  • Location: CVPA Room 104
  • Contact: Music Department
  • Description: Percussion Recital
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • UMass Dartmouth Observatory, Spring 2015 Open Houses
  • Location: UMass Dartmouth Observatory Field
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Weather permitting, members of the UMass Dartmouth community and the general public are invited to view the night sky through the observatory's 16-inch telescope. In the event of cancellation due to cloudy conditions, an announcement will be available before the event around 5 PM at www.assne.org or by calling (508) 999-8715 for a recorded message. For further information, please contact Prof. Alan Hirshfeld at 508-999-8715.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Sleep on it! The Enhancing Effects of Sleep and Cortisol on Memory Across the Lifespan
  • Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
  • Contact: Ora M. DeJesus Gerontology Center
  • Description: The Healthy Aging Seminar Series, Ora M. DeJesus Gerontology Center, and Psi Chi Honor Society in Psychology are sponsoring this seminar presentation by Kelly Bennion, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, Boston College. The presentation will occur as part of the 11th Annual Regional Psychology Conference in Woodland Commons.
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students
«  4/15 - 5/13  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention. Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
  • Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  4/11 - 5/17  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
  • Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
  • 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts

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