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Sunday, September 27, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM	45th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony and Brunch Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: UMass Dartmouth Alumni Relations Description: The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Alumni Association Awards were created to give recognition to those alumni and members of the administration, faculty or staff who have been outstanding in their service to the University or on their career accomplishments. This year, nine members of our community will be recognized: James French '78 (Alumni Achievement Award); Michael Joyce '85 (Alumni Achievement Award); Dr. Craig P. O'Connell '14 (Alumni Achievement Award); Dr. Joan M. Vitello-Cicciu '78 (Alumni Achievement Award); Greg Paciulan '99 (University Service Award); Judith A. Lima '87 (Alumni Volunteer Service Award); Caitlyn Camara '07 (Young Alumna Award); Robert A. Mellion, Esq., JD '07 (Professional Achievement Award); Leslie Becker Wilson, Esq. (Alumni Ambassador Award) Link: http://www.alumni.umassd.edu/awards2015 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Alumni Events
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass is celebrated on campus at 7:00 pm on Sundays in the Blue and Gold Welcome Center. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 9/1 - 9/30 »	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
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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
« 9/25 - 2:00 PM	UMass Dartmouth Homecoming Weekend 2015 Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Celebrate UMassD Homecoming Weekend by catching up at reunions and cheering our Corsairs onto victory. Special highlights for the weekend include: - a young alumni dance party - all-alumni tent - reunions There will be an alumni kids zone with games and activities. Plenty of fun for the whole family. Most events take place under the Alumni Tent on the Practice Field. More details can be found at: www.alumni.umassd.edu/2015Homecoming (see link above). Questions? Contact UMass Dartmouth Alumni Relations at alumni@umassd.edu or 508.999.8031. Link: http://www.alumni.umassd.edu/2015Homecoming Topical Areas: University Community, Alumni Events, General Public
Monday, September 28, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Recording with Techsmith Relay Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128 Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: Techsmith Relay is a software based lecture capture and personal recording solution. Relay can record PowerPoint presentations or any other content displayed on your computer screen, in addition to audio narration and web cam video. You can record anywhere, anytime regardless of internet connectivity or location. After recording, the video is automatically processed by the Relay server and uploaded to a cloud based storage provider. This workshop will walk through the process of installing Relay, recording and linking to the video from myCourses. Please bring your own laptop if you would like to participate in this Workshop. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development, audience: Faculty
« 9/1 - 9/30 »	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
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Psychology Department Brown Bag Series Location: > See description for location Contact: Psychology Department Description: Monday, Sept. 28th, 3-4pm LARTS 213 The Psychology Department's Brown Bag Series is a research-talk series supported by the Provost's Departmental Seminar Series. Please join us for the first talk of the 2015-2016 AY by our newest faculty member, Dr. Christina Crowe. Investigating School Connectedness and Indicators of Academic and Psychological Adjustment in Early Adolescence School connectedness has emerged in the educational and developmental literature as a protective factor during adolescence (Bond et al., 2007; Libbey, 2004; McNeely, Nonnemaker, & Blum, 2002). When students report feeling connected in school, they tend to demonstrate more positive educational and psychosocial outcomes, including better grades (Blum, 2005; McNeely et al., 2002), increased school engagement (Libbey, 2004) and adjustment (Battistich, Schaps, & Wilson, 2004; McNeely et al., 2002) and lower rates of health risk behaviors (Bond et al., 2007). Students who lack connection with school are less engaged (Blum, 2005), more likely to participate in socially maladaptive behaviors (such as using controlled substances or engaging in unprotected sex) (Bond et al., 2007; McNeely et al., 2002), and report diminished mental health states (Blum, 2005; Bond et al., 2007) and graduation rates (Blum, 2005). A more nuanced understanding of the relationship between school connectedness and student school adjustment will contribute to the descriptive typology of school connectedness during early adolescence and can inform researchers and practitioners interested in identifying students most in need of support. The present analyses build upon the aforementioned literature by investigating the relationships among early adolescent student levels of connectedness and academic and psychological indicators of school adjustment, specifically identifying critical levels of connectedness associated with these indicators. The sample is drawn from 3,343 5th and 6th grade students from one urban school district in the Northeast. School connectedness was operationalized in these data by student-report responses to the Classroom Supportiveness Scale (Developmental Studies Center, 2000; Î±= .85), Bonds with School (Cook et al., 1995; Î± = .80, and Affiliation with Teacher Cook et al.,1995; Î± = .88) scales. Indicators of school adjustment included academic grades and self-report of academic engagement and dissatisfaction with school. Two comprehensive sets of analyses were conducted: a hierarchical cluster analyses to examine variance within constructs and sample, and multilevel modeling to examine the potential source of these differential composites. Results from a hierarchical cluster analyses divided students into low (n = 821), average (n = 1116), and high (n = 1406) connectedness group. Students in the highly connected group differed from students in the low connection group on all independent measures, and differed significantly from those in the average connectedness group on measures of engagement. Multilevel models further suggest that the context of predominantly low achieving classrooms leads to lower school connectedness, and this difference cannot be attributed simply to the propensity of the individual students to feel connected. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Psychology
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Collaborative Problem Solving Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: As a participant in this seminar, you will be able to: • Identify barriers to a positive outcome. • Identify traits of effective problem solvers. • Describe an eight-step problem-solving model. • Utilize specific tools for gaining consensus. • Experience increased self-confidence when resolving issues with others. Location: CCB 115 Questions: contact Sheila Whitaker, X8045 Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Human Resources
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM	MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Purna Satya Subrahmanyam Andra Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF STANDBY SYSTEMS WITH BACKUPS AND REPLACEMENTS USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: This project considers 1-out-of-N: G heterogeneous warm standby systems subject to periodic backup actions as well as component replacements. Two types of replacements are performed during the mission: corrective replacements are triggered by the failure of the online operating component, and preventive replacements are performed to renew the aged online component before its failure by an available standby component. Backups are performed to facilitate effective restoration of system operation in case of the occurrence of corrective or preventive replacements. Monte Carlo simulations are implemented in the Matlab environment to evaluate performance of such a complex system. Performance indices considered include mission reliability, expected mission completion time, expected mission operation cost, and expected uncompleted work fraction. Results from this work can provide insights into the reliable design and operation of 1-out-of-N: G heterogeneous warm standby systems. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advsior: dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Lance Fiondella and Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or by via email at lxing@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Pathways Strategic Teaching Center Location: Campus Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Recruiting for Behavior Technician (Part and Full time) Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? for credit? not for credit? paid? unpaid? Come to this session to learn how to get started. Preregister on CareerLink via the UMD portal or call the Career Development Center for more information at 508.999.8658 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM	"The Hungry Heart" + Q&A with filmmaker Bess O'Brien Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Cost: Free! Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: The Hungry Heart, the newest documentary from filmmaker Bess O'Brien, provides an intimate look at the often hidden world of prescription drug addiction through the world of Vermont Pediatrician Fred Holmes who works with patients struggling with this disease. Visit the website at http://www.thehungryheartmovie.org for more information Link: http://www.thehungryheartmovie.org Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Films, Health Services, Livewell
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Word Mail Merge Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This workshop covers the use of Microsoft Word’s mail merge tools. Participants create a letter and merge it with names and addresses from a separate data document. Conditional if-then statements are covered, as well as using data from external sources such as Peoplesoft. Familiarity with the basic text-editing features of Word 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
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Incorporating Video Lectures, Online Homework Submission and Homework Solution Videos into Face-To-Face Course Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Incorporating Video Lectures, Online Homework Submission and Homework Solution Videos into Face-To-Face Course (Nichalin Summerfield, MIS) In this talk, Dr. Summerfield will present the two problems she faced in her Business Statistic (POM212) classrooms prior to the use of technology. Then, she will discuss how she incorporated video lectures, online homework submission, and homework solution videos help solve the problems. Finally, she will discuss how she evaluate the use of technology. Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development, audience: Faculty
« 9/1 - 9/30 »	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
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines - Reception: Artist Talk 7 PM Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of paintings by Nancy Friese, Gayle Wells Mandle, and Pat Coomey Thornton Reception: Tues, Sept 29, 6-8 PM, Artist Talk 7 PM Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? for credit? not for credit? paid? unpaid? Come to this session to learn how to get started. Preregister on CareerLink via the UMD portal or call the Career Development Center for more information at 508.999.8658 Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Catholic Mass - Law School Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Mass is celebrated at the UMass Law School on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon in Room 116. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Seminar - Dr. Sarita Nellutla - Bridgewater State Univeristy Location: LIB-206 Cost: free Contact: Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Description: TITLE: "Probing Magnetic Domain Structure of Ni Nanocubes Using Multi-Frequency Electron Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Workshop:Pre-tenure Publication Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Pre-tenure Publication (Nikolay Anguelov, Public Policy) Dr. Anguelov will share experiences about pre-tenure publishing and develop a plan for your publishing trajectory. Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
9:00 AM - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Opening Doors for Creative Student Submissions Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This hands-on workshop explores wikis and blogs and their use as instructional tools for collaborative content creation. Wikis can be used for generated content, such as student group projects, website, research projects, writing assignments, project development, and peer review. Workshop participants will create and configure a wiki utilizing the UMassD Wiki farm hosted by Wikispaces. Then discover how blogs can be used to journal, sharing of information, and even online course sites. Participants will create and configure a UMassD blog, learn how to post and add comments, add templates, images and media. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to InDesign, Part 2 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The second workshop in the three part series covers working with text frames, threading text and importing text from other documents. Placing images, the Links palette, the Direct Selection tool and Text Wrap are also covered. Previous InDesign experience, or Part 1 of the Introduction class 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
« 9/1 - Today	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
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	SUMMIT Finance Reporting Tool Refresher Class Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Kirk Hellmuth Description: Come find out what the Finance SUMMIT tool is about! Review the various dashboards. Where to go to manage your department budget? How to review your project expenses? Available reference material. Location: Room CCB-115 Contact: Kirk Hellmuth X8085 Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Yabo Han Location: Textiles Building 101E Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Yabo Han September 30, 2015 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Textile Building, Room 101E TOPIC: Construction of a Multivariate Control Chart Based on Kernel Density Estimation and Metropolis-Hastings Sampling ABSTRACT: Statistical process control (SPC) is a set of procedures that uses statistical techniques to measure, analyze, and reduce process variation. Control chart is the commonly used and most successful SPC tool in real-world applications. Traditional Multivariate Quality Control Charts (MQCC), such as Hotelling T2 control chart, Multivariate Cumulative Sum (MCUSUM) and Multivariate Exponentially-Weighted Moving Average (MEWMA) control chart, etc. are based on multivariate normal assumption. This given assumption is not usually satisfied, especially in modern industrial manufacturing process. In this study, a new method to construct control chart for unknown multivariate distributional process is proposed, which is based on Kernel Density Estimation (non-parameter density estimation method) and Metropolis-Hastings sampling. This new method is able to avoid given assumption and accommodate non-normal or normal multivariate process. The control limit for control chart is a constant value which is derived by Metropolis-Hastings sampling method in a numerical way. Two simulation cases used to evaluate and validate the performance of the proposed method will be provided in this study. ADVISOR: Dr. Wenzhen Huang (whuang@umassd.edu, 508-910-6568) COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Farhad Azadivar and Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information please contact: Dr. Wenzhen Huang (whuang@umassd.edu, 508-910-6568) Thank you, Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: TOWARDS UNIFIED DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE APP OFFLOADING TO CLOUD COMPUTING: FROM THEORY TO PRODUCTS Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A Abstract: An eminent tussle has emerged between the growing demand for rich applications on mobile devices and the limited supply of onboard resources (e.g., computing capacity, battery, etc). The latter is fundamentally hindered by the physical size of mobile devices as dictated by its mobility nature. In this research, we propose to leverage the seemingly unlimited resources in cloud computing to extend the capability of mobile devices via application offloading. In particular, resource-hungry mobile applications are offloaded to a cloud platform in proximity. The cloud platform provides a virtual machine, as a digital clone of the physical device, to execute dynamically-offloaded tasks. The mobile app offloading approach pivots on two complementary technical contributions. First, previous research efforts have been focusing on exploring alternative mechanisms to implement application offloading, including Cloudlet, Cloud Clone and Weblet, etc. Second, it demands a unified decision-making framework to understand a fundamental trade-off between communication overhead and computation saving, in the presence of inherent system uncertainty (e.g., varying channel conditions, dynamic computing complexity, etc). In this talk, we present a unified mathematical framework to determine whether it is beneficial to offload a mobile app to the cloud in proximity. We model the mobile workflow as a directed graph, whose vertices represent computing load of a specific module and edges represent data exchange between modules. A policy engine determines whether a vertex should be offloaded to the cloud for execution, by trading the computation cost on the mobile device over the communication overhead between the mobile device and the cloud. We formulate this decision-making challenge as a constrained optimization problem, with an objective to minimize a chosen cost metric (e.g., energy comsumption) for either the mobile user or the mobile service provider, under the constraint of quality of service (QoS) requirements (e.g., delay deadline). Our analytical framework builds on solving a series of progressively-challenging sub-problems with an increasing complexity of the workflow graph, namely, graph of a single node, linear topology and directed acyclic graph. For each of these sub-problems, we have developed either closed-form solutions or efficient algorithms to provide operational guideline for optimal mobile app offloading. Our theoretic framework is further verified by two real system developments. In our group, we have developed a multi-screen cloud Social TV system (i.e., Yubigo), allowing video-streaming session to seamlessly migrate across different screens (e.g., TV, laptop and smartphone). It builds upon the clone-based model to offload the session management onto a dedicated service container in the cloud. Our research has also inspired an open-source cloud robotic framework (i.e., Rapyuta), which was developed by EPFL researcher by adopting our proposed clone-based model. Both projects have been spun off as start-up with public and/or private investment. The Seminars is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thursday, October 1, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Recovering Hope - A Community-Wide Response to Addiction - Professional Symposium Location: > See description for location Cost: Free! Limited capacity. Pre-registration required. Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: The SouthCoast community has been hard hit by addiction in recent years--most alarmingly addiction to heroin, opioids and prescription painkillers. Record numbers of drug overdoses are being reported. Addressing an epidemic of such alarming heights requires a community-wide response. Join leading experts along with your colleagues and neighbors to take a closer look at today's most effective efforts to address addiction and learn how you can be part of the solution. This FREE Professional Symposium will be held at White's of Westport, 66 State Road, Westport, MA. Presented by the Hazelden Betty Ford Institute for Recovery Advocacy. Sponsored by the Carney Family Charitable Foundation. Please direct all questions regarding these programs to Robin Costello at 877-444-5771 or RCostello@hazeldenbettyford.org Link: http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/newbedford Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Health Services, Livewell
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Excel Grade Books Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This workshop is geared toward educators who wish to simplify the process of evaluating student performance and calculating final grades. Participants learn how to organize student data on a worksheet, calculate averages, weighted averages, and use a lookup table to control the contribution of different scores toward a student's final grade. Excel can even convert number grades to letter grades automatically! Also covered are some of Excel's statistical functions. 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, topic: Faculty Development
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Recovering Hope - Addressing Addiction as a Community - Community Forum Location: > See description for location Cost: Free! Limited capacity. Pre-registration required. Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: The SouthCoast community has been hard hit by addiction in recent years--most alarmingly addiction to heroin, opioids and prescription painkillers. Record numbers of drug overdoses are being reported. Addressing an epidemic of such alarming heights requires a community-wide response. "Addressing Addiction as a Community", a panel discussion, will feature several addiction experts, law enforcement, and other community leaders. This FREE Community Forum will be held at The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Cook Memorial Theater, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA. Note: Bus service between the Main Campus and downtown New Bedford is available via the SRTA Bus 9 (http://www.srtabus.com/new-bedford). Presented by the Hazelden Betty Ford Institute for Recovery Advocacy. Sponsored by the Carney Family Charitable Foundation. Please direct all questions regarding these programs to Robin Costello at 877-444-5771 or RCostello@hazeldenbettyford.org Link: http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/newbedford Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Health Services, Livewell
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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
2:00 AM - 3:00 AM	Procard/Reallocation Training Location: Foster Administration, Room 308 Contact: Purchasing Description: How do you get a procard? What is reallocation? Can I buy this using my procard? Learn the policies and procedures of the university procurement card program and the importance of proper reallocations and statement reconciliation. Please contact Nadine Rodriguez with any questions at nadine.rodriguez@umassd.edu Link: http://www.umassd.edu/admin_finance/departments/administrativeservices/purchasing/procurementcardprogram/
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition: Reception, Artist Talks and Music Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Artists: Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan 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, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
Friday, October 2, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM	International Film Series: Only When I Dance Location: CVPA Auditorium , CVPA-153 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Only When I Dance (Brazil, 2010) This documentary follows two teenagers from the violent slums of Rio de Janeiro, as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers. In Portuguese with English subtitles CVPA Room 153 Contact: Prof. Charles White, 508-999-8285 Topical Areas: General Public, Films
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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
Saturday, October 3, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	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
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	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
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	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
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	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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