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Friday, July 24, 2015
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Parreeee! Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission.
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Parreeee!
Exhibition Dates: May 28 - Sept 10, 2015
Reception: AHA! Night, Thursday June 11 from 6 to 8 pm
Closing Reception: AHA! Night, Thursday September 10 from 6 to 8 pm
Selected Artists: Tatiana Artuar, Jennifer Avery, Philippe Lejeune, Anthony J. Miraglia, Elena Peteva, Lisa Redburn, Suzanne Schireson, Marc St. Pierre, Ray Veary, Alison Wells
UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford presents an exhibition "Parreeee!" inspired by our perceptions of French culture.
Jurors: Jean-Francois Allaux, Associate Professor, UMass Dartmouth; Viera Levitt, Gallery Director, UMass Dartmouth; and Robert P. Stack, co-owner and curator, Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI
The gallery has a wall available for postings of materials measuring up to 8.5x11 inches. This is open to anyone who would like to contribute a work of art, a poem, and/or a letter or postcard sent from a real or imagined trip to Paris.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
www.umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat 9AM-6PM, Sun 9AM-5PM and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Free admission.
Image: Elena Peteva: Arch, 2015, oil and graphite
- Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/cvpa/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, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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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.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Alexander N. Sinkevich
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering MS THESIS DEFENSE by
Mr. Alexander N. Sinkevich
DATE:
July 24, 2015
TIME:
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Textile Building, Room 101E
TOPIC:
Strategies for Overcoming Transport Limitations of Convective Desiccation of Trehalose Solutions for Ambient Temperature Preservation of Biologics
ABSTRACT:
Lyopreservation is the preservation of complex biologics inside water-disaccharide solutions (trehalose being the disaccharide) by convectively drying the solutions at ambient temperatures. As an aqueous trehalose solution dries to a water content below 10 wt.%, a glassy skin forms at the solution-vapor interface and preserves the stored biologic. Recovery of viable biologics in the literature has been limited, leading to a repeated conjecture that water transport limitations prevent uniform glass formation at the cellular level. In addition, solute transport during the desiccation process may also prevent uniform glass formation at the solution surface. This thesis work utilizes commercial finite element software COMSOL Multiphysics to investigate ways to allow rapid formation of a uniform glassy layer around a mammalian cell. It first explores in a one-dimensional thin film model various boundary conditions to see if glass formation at the cellular level can be accelerated for both natural and forced convective cases. A sessile droplet model is also developed to investigate how different droplet profiles influence solute transport. Results show that using higher substrate or environmental temperatures helps remove water but is too dangerous for cellular survival and also lowers the water content necessary to form glass. Heating the substrate in a controlled, sinusoidal manner circumvents this issue by always periodically returning to room temperature. Increasing the wave frequency helps rapidly form glass at the cellular layer. However, obtaining a water content necessary for complete glass formation within the cell requires either increased amounts of intracellular trehalose or post-desiccation storage temperatures lower than room temperature. Using sinusoidal heating on substrates with hydrophobic surfaces strengthens Marangoni flow and results in enhanced heat transfer within the solution and cooler temperatures at the cellular layer. The solute transport while using hydrophobic surfaces results in a top-down glass formation pattern, which may be more beneficial for encapsulating biologics.
CO-ADVISOR:
Dr. Sankha Bhowmick
(sbhowmick@umassd.edu, 508-999-8619)
CO-ADVISOR:
Dr. Mehdi Raessi
(mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496)
COMMITTEE MEMBER:
Dr. Amit Tandon
Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend.
For more information, please contact Dr. Sankha Bhowmick or Dr. Mehdi Raessi at the E-mail and/or telephone number above.
Thank you,
Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant
scunha@umassd.edu
508-999-8492
- Topical Areas: University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Parallel Synchronized Randomness Print Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Opening Reception: AHA! Night, July 9 Gallery Talk by Adrian Tio at 6 pm
Location: Crapo Gallery & Gallery 244
Star Store Campus, UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
The College of Visual and Performing Arts presents an exhibition of more than twenty prints by professional printmakers from throughout the United States that were collected as a part of artist exchange organized by Oregon artist Louise Krampien.
Krampien described this project as follows: "Parallel Synchronized Randomness (a term adopted from the 2006 French film The Science of Sleep) essentially is a phenomenon which hypothesizes that like minded strangers will inevitably come into contact with each other through the nature of their own actions. The conception of this exchange began in 2000 when the organizer started noticing the personal connections that several of her instructors, peers, and members of past print exchanges already had with one another. The intention of this exchange is to acknowledge and foster this phenomenon by calling attention to several of these particular artists and asking that each participant invites another artist to be a member of the exchange."
Portfolio #13 is brought to the UMass Dartmouth Star Store campus by Adrian Tio, Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Tio, who is also a printmaker, was invited by participating artist Michael Hecht (#9), a fellow member of the Hatch Street Studios in New Bedford. Visitors can enjoy various printmaking techniques such as woodcuts, intaglios, silkscreens, linocuts, and digital glycee. The prints are displayed in numerical order by artist, allowing for unintended dialogues of color, texture, line, shape, value and design.
Artists: 1. Andrew Baldwin / 2. Angee Lennard / 3. Brian Bump / 4. Dustin Price / 5. Erika Adams / 6. John Schulz / 7. Kevin Haas / 8. Louise Krampien / 9. Michael Hecht / 10. Nancy Prior / 11. Nicole Kita / 12. Paul Croft / 13. Adrian Tio / 14. Brooke Steiger / 15. Chris Knight / 16. Christa Donner / 17. Deborah Lader / 18. Eirini Boutasi / 19. Erik Waterkotte / 20. Exhibition Set / 21. Gini Wade / 22. Janine Biunno / 23. Jill Zevenbergen / 24. Michael Jackson
Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
- 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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