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Sunday, April 24, 2016
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	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	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the Blue and Gold Center on the first floor of the Campus Center, next to the Bookstore. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the Blue and Gold Welcome Room on the ground floor of the Campus Center. All are Welcome. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
« 4/12 - 4/30 »	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
« 4/22 - 9:00 PM	StartUp Weekend - Maker Edition Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship , 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA Cost: $29.99 for students; $49.99 for non-students; Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Description: Ever feel the urge to build something cool? Come join us and build your prototype and business plan in 54 hours. On April 22th - 24th, Startup Weekend - Maker Edition will be hosted for the first time ever at the UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (151 Martine St, Fall River, MA 02723) Startup Weekend is an event bringing together entrepreneurs, designers, developers and startup enthusiasts to participate in 54 hours of taking innovative business ideas from concept to launch. On Friday night, attendees will take the open mic to pitch their ideas in 60 seconds or less. After teams are formed via a popular vote, the rest of the weekend will be spent refining the ideas, with the help of mentors and seasoned startup entrepreneurs. By Sunday, teams will be ready to present their ideas in front of a panel of judges who will award prizes, including co-working space or mentorship programs, all of which are designed to help teams build their startups after the weekend. With the theme of Maker Edition, we hope participants will focus on building physical products, or at least provide a business solution with a combination of software and hardware. For those that already participated in previous Startup Weekend events, this event can still be an exciting challenge. The most diverse teams are usually the best teams, so there will always be a team for your major. Don't already have an idea before coming to the event? No worries, you can still learn a ton when you contribute your skills to a team. This event is proudly sponsored by Charlton College of Business, Optimal Partners & Business Innovation Research Center. For more information about tickets, schedule, judges or mentors' profiles, etc. please visit http://www.up.co/communities/usa/dartmouth/startup-weekend/8822 Link: http://www.up.co/communities/usa/dartmouth/startup-weekend/8822 Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
Monday, April 25, 2016
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	BH4S: American poet Claudia Rankine Location: Woodland Commons Contact: Unity House Description: American poet Claudia Rankine Closes National Poetry Month with a reading from Citizen: An American Lyric, a unique mixture of poetry, prose, and visual image. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Link: https://www.umassd.edu/blackhistory Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Poetry
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Tools for artists: Philippe Lejeune Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Philippe Lejeune is a contemporary artist and printmaker. He will be showing his work and doing color intaglio printing demonstrations. Location: Star Store room 339, contact person: mstpierre@umassd.edu Sponsored by the Provost Departmental seminar series. Topical Areas: Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric - for National Poetry Month Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: College of Arts and Sciences Description: In Celebration of National Poetry Month -- Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine, award winning American writer, will read from and discuss her poetry collection, Citizen: An American Lyric. For her book Citizen, Rankine won both the PEN Open Book Award and the PEN Literary Award, the NAACP Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (Citizen was the first book ever to be named a finalist in both the poetry and criticism categories); and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. Woodland Commons, 4:00-5:30pm Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Literature, Poetry
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
« 4/12 - 4/30 »	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Andrea Carreiro Senior Jazz Voice Recital Location: CVPA Auditorium , CVPA-153 Contact: Music Department Description: Senior Jazz Voice Recital Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Academic Success Location: Counseling Center , AUD. ANNEX Room 101 Contact: Counseling Center Description: Four session, reoccurring group that teaches time management, study skills, test-taking strategies, management of test anxiety, and memory tricks. Just show up for one of the groups. Students can begin with any session and work their way through the sequence. Students may repeat the sequence or any portion of it, if they like. Meets Tues. from 5pm to 6 pm at the Counseling Center. Led by Jamison Merrell Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	CORSAIR Jobs for Staff Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training. Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions. Topical Areas: Training, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Workshop
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Large Jazz Ensemble Conceret Location: CVPA Auditorium , CVPA-153 Contact: Music Department Description: Large Jazz Ensemble Concert Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one? All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Violence Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Facilitated by The Women's Center, Inc. This organization uses art therapy as a tool for healing. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: Law School Room 116 , 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in Room 116 of the UMass Lawschool at noon. All are Welcome. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM	ECE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Kaushallya Adhikari Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT PROCESSING OF COLINEAR SPARSE ARRAYS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Sampling of a propagating signal is a crucial step in radar and sonar systems. An array of sensors spatially samples a propagating signal. The most basic type of array of sensors is a uniform linear array (ULA) where the sensors are uniformly spaced on a line. The quality and the amount of information possessed by a sampled signal are highly dependent on where the signal is sampled in space and how the signals from different sensors are processed to extract the information. A beamformer processes the data sampled by an array to extract information about the signal, such as the direction of arrival for signals of interest, the number of signal sources, and the signal propagation medium. The major theme of this thesis is the product processing of the conventional beamformer outputs of two colinear arrays that comprise a sparse non-uniform linear array. These sparse non-uniform linear arrays offer the resolution of a fully populated ULA with the same aperture using far fewer sensors. Two specific examples of product processing arrays that this thesis examines are linear coprime sensor arrays (CSAs) and nested arrays. A CSA consists of two undersampled ULAs with interleaved sensors while a nested array consists of a fully populated smaller aperture ULA nested between two adjacent sensors of an undersampled larger aperture ULA. The outputs of the product processors are spatial power spectral density estimates of the sampled signal and the bias and variance of the estimate characterize the performance of the product processors. This thesis makes three contributions to the understanding of product processing for colinear sparse arrays. First, this thesis derives the bias and variance of the product processors for sparse arrays and analyzes the results for CSAs and nested arrays. Second, this thesis provides analytical expressions for conditional probability density functions (PDFs) corresponding to signal present and absent cases in complex Gaussian signal detection by a CSA product processor and evaluates the receiver operation characteristic (ROC), facilitating the study of the detection performance. The analysis of the detection performance shows that the product processor detection gain is equal to the total number of sensors like in a linear array for medium and high signal to noise ratios. Third, this thesis determines the number of periods required in CSAs with different shadings to reduce the peak sidelobe (PSL) height to the same level as a ULA. A CSA with only one period can match the resolution of the fully populated ULA with the equivalent aperture. However, the CSA PSL height is higher than the equivalent full ULA's PSL height. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck Committee Members: Dr. Paul Gendron and Dr. Karen Payton, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Kathleen E. Wage, George Mason University; Dr. Piya Pal, University of Maryland *For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck at 508.999.9237, or via email at jbuck@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Over 25 Group Location: Counseling Center , AUD. ANNEX Room 101 Contact: Counseling Center Description: Over 25 Group: A process group focused on growth, insight, and mutual support for graduate students and older undergrads. Meets Tues. from 12:30 to 1:45pm. Led by Dr. Cate Perry and Dr. Mika MacInnis. If interested, call 508 999 8650. Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM	Sustainable Innovations Day Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: Campus Sustainability and Residential Initiatives Description: The Office of Campus Sustainability and Residential Initiatives will be hosting Sustainable Innovations Day on April 26th at the Woodland Commons. Come join us as we celebrate the members of our campus and our community and their efforts to make our world a better environment for everyone. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Sustainability Office
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Abigail E. O'Brien Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: QUANTIFYING SYSTEM SECURITY THROUGH MARKOV CHAINS AND RELATED STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR RELIABILITY LOCATION: College of Engineering Conference Room, Textile's Building - Room 101E ABSTRACT: Network security is a heavily researched field with an endless cycle of newly discovered attacks and methods to mitigate them, but with very few models to numerically represent the resultant effect. When the security of a system can be quantified, values such as its marketability and the outcome of improved encryption algorithms become easier to visualize. This project aims to investigate stochastic models for reliability analysis and apply them in a way that can distinctively measure the desired security attributes (confidentiality, integrity, availability) of a specific system. Particularly, Markov chains, binary decision diagrams and related probability-based approaches are implemented for overall system security evaluation. The methods are demonstrated through a detailed case study of a body area network, which consists of several wearable computing devices used for health monitoring. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Hong Liu and Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
« 4/12 - 4/30 »	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense Location: Textiles Building , 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: Debra Landry, NP, DNP(C) Nursing DNP Candidate Geriatric Homecare Education for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Date: April 26, 2016 Time: 10:3-12:30 Location: Textiles Building, Room: 011 DNP Capstone Defense Committee: Elizabeth Chin, PhD (Capstone Advisor) Monika Schuler, PhD Susan Harrington, DNP RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one? All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Three Minute Thesis Competition - Undergraduate Preliminary Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 205 Contact: Graduate Studies Office 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 205 of the Claire T. Carney Library. Contact Susan Burke Pedreira for additional details @ extension 8012 or spedreira@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
All Day	Denim Day Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: We ask community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual assault. Link: denimdayinfo.org Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	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: The Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation group will be meeting on Wednesdays 12:15-1:00 pm this spring in the Reflection Room of the Campus Center (Rm. 233), starting Jan. 27th, ending May 11th. Contact Aminda O'Hare (aohare@umassd.edu, ext. 8761) with questions. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Psychology Department - Summer Opportunities Panel Location: > See description for location Contact: Psychology Department Description: LARTS 120 Career Development Discussion Come join faculty from the Psychology Department for a lively discussion of how to make the most of your summer break. Regardless of whether you're a freshman or senior, come learn some tips and tricks for how to seek out resume-building experiences while still enjoying your summer! Pizza and drinks will be provided, while it lasts. Topical Areas: Students, Psychology
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM	WRC Resume Writing Workshop Location: Liberal Arts Building 220 Contact: Writing and Reading Center Description: Come to the ARC/Writing & Reading Center to learn more about resume writing. Whether you need help beginning your resume, or you want to make sure you're on the right track, then this workshop is for you! Call us at 508-999-8719 or come to the WRC in LARTS 220 to sign up. Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM	The READING STAGE Series Location: > See description for location Contact: Black Studies Description: In celebration of National Poetry Month, we present two nights of staged readings of one-act plays, written and (mostly) directed by UMass Dartmouth Students. Playwrights come from the ENL 379 Advanced Playwriting course: Autumn Ross, Andrade Crawford, Nick Zalis, Rose Simplice, Ashley Ramkissoon, Casey J. Tremblay, Sandra Dentino, Robeson Rogers, and Emma Givney. Doors open @ 6:30pm in LARTS - 104 Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, English, Students, Law, Poetry
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Three Minute Thesis Competition - Graduate Preliminary Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Graduate Studies Office 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 Susan Burke Pedreira for additional details @ extension 8012 or spedreira@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	DFO seminar - 4/26/16 - Chambers Location: > Off-campus location, see description for details Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography Effects of elevated CO2 on the early life-stages of marine fishes and potential consequences of ocean acidification R. Christopher Chambers Research Fisheries Biologist NOAA - Northeast Fisheries Science Center Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory Wednesday, April 27, 2016 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm SMAST II, Room 157 200 Mill Road, Fairhaven, MA Note: Seminar will be simulcast to SMAST I, Room 204. You can view the seminar live by logging on to: https://echosystem.umassd.edu:8443/ess/portal/section/7547b9d3-f7a6-4772-a0ab-5fa027111350 Please note: the earliest you will be able to log in is 15 minutes before the regularly scheduled time. To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted title. for more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
3:00 PM - 5/11 »	Blended Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction. Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Academic Success Location: Counseling Center , AUD. ANNEX Room 101 Contact: Counseling Center Description: Four sessions, reoccurring group that teaches time management, study skills, test-taking strategies, management of test anxiety, and memory tricks. Just show up for one of the groups. Students can begin with any session and work their way through the sequence. Students may repeat the sequence or any portion of it, if they like. Meets Weds. from 5pm to 6 pm in the Counseling Center. Led by Mark Winsor. Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM	Under 25 Group Location: Counseling Center , AUD. ANNEX Room 101 Contact: Counseling Center Description: Under 25 Group: A process group focused on growth, insight, and mutual support for undergraduate students. Meets Weds. From 4-5:15 pm. Led by Dr. Cate Perry and Dr. David Perry. If interested, call 508.999.8650. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, Counseling Center
« 4/12 - 4/30 »	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense Location: Foster Administration Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: Victoria Cabral, RN, BSN, DNP(c) Nursing DNP Candidate Improving Handoff Communication for the Post-Operative Patient Date: April 27th, 2016 Time: 1-2:30 Location, Foster Administration Building, Room: 333 DNP Capstone Defense Committee: Margaret Rudd Arieta, DNP, PPCNP-BC (Committee Chair) Jennifer Viveiros, PhD Deborah Ridout,RN RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
1:00 PM - 4/28 »	Accessibility Day Event Location: > See description for location Cost: 0.00 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Sci & Eng Bldg., Room 114 Massachusetts Office of Disabilities-Speakers Rita DiNunzio Training Manager & Evan Bjorklund, General Counsel The Presentation will entail: A brief overview/history of disability rights in MA and the U.S. General overview of Americans with Disabilities Act (including service animals) Overview of MOD and the work we do Overview of state agencies that serve people with disabilities Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Italian Film Series - "18 ius soli" (2012) Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Italian Film Series - "18 ius soli" (2012) Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:00 PM Liberal Arts rm. 214 Please join us for our final film in this semester's series with a special screening of the brilliant documentary '18 ius soli'(2012). Italian law denies citizenship to young people born in Italy to immigrant parents. This illuminative documentary examines the injustice faced by 18 girls and boys born in Italy to parents from Africa, Asia, and South America. '18 Ius Soli' sheds a light on the international struggle for those in the African diaspora and beyond to maintain freedom in new lands, whether that freedom is intergenerational or otherwise. Free Admission Any questions may be directed to Italian professor Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/473331266192227/ Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Literature and Languages, History, Liberal Arts, Multidisciplinary Studies, Political Science, Films
Thursday, April 28, 2016
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Spring Choral Concert Location: CVPA Auditorium , CVPA-153 Contact: Music Department Description: Spring Choral Concert Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense Location: Foster Administration Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: Cynthia Lopes, RN, BSN, DNP(c) Nursing DNP Candidate Improving Medication Adherence by Exploring Beliefs and Behaviors Date: April 28th, 2016 Time: 3pm- 4:30pm Location: Foster Administration Building, Room 333 DNP Capstone Defense Committee: Margaret Rudd Arieta DNP, PPCNP-BC (Capstone Advisor) Deborah Armstrong, PhD, RN-BC Kathleen Downey, PhD, RN RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Young Frankenstein the Musical by Mel Brooks Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium , UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: $5 students and military, $10 general admission Contact: Theatre Company Description: SHOWTIMES FOR THE WEEKEND Thursday, April 28 - 8pm Friday, April 29 - 8pm Saturday, April 30 - 2pm* & 8pm Sunday, May 1 - 4pm *Understudy show- understudies take the lead roles. From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen"), played by Nathaniel Tarantino, inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked side-kick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), played by Shayne Furtado, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), played by Cheyanne Patterson, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds. Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all the panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added. With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment! For more information visit our Facebook Page or contact the UMD Theatre Company or the 20Cent Fiction Theatre Company. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716700798568301/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Concerts, Theater, Visual Arts, 20 Cent Fiction, Student Organizations, Theater Company
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Three Minute Thesis Competition - Grand Finale Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Graduate Studies Office 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 Susan Burke Pedreira for additional details @ extension 8012 or spedreira@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
2:00 PM - 5/12 »	David and Goliath: Giants Underdogs and conflict-Guest Speaker Memory Holloway Location: Liberal Arts Building 110 Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Description: Guest speaker Memory Holloway will be speaking on David and Goliath. This Lecture will include visual examples of the story and film clips. Sponsored by the Religious & Spiritual Office April 28th at 2 pm in Liberal Arts Room 110 Topical Areas: Students, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM	StressLess Day Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: Get a mini-massage. Play. Craft. Color your cares away. Join us for an afternoon break to relax and unwind. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/stressless/ Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Claire T. Carney Library, Health Services, Livewell
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM	CANCELLED: Technology for Team-Based Learning Location: Liberal Arts Building 208 Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: LARTS 208 has been designed to support teaching that is conducive to involving students, actively in their own learning. Participants will explore several active learning strategies and scenarios and utilize the technology in the room to engage students and promote active and collaborative learning. This workshop is limited to College of Arts & Science faculty. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Sexual Violence Survivor Art Show Closing Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: This event is held at and co-sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Unity House. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM	WRC Resume Writing Workshop Location: Liberal Arts Building 220 Contact: Writing and Reading Center Description: Come to the ARC/Writing & Reading Center to learn more about resume writing. Whether you need help beginning your resume, or you want to make sure you're on the right track, then this workshop is for you! Call us at 508-999-8719 or come to the WRC in LARTS 220 to sign up. Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
« 4/27 - 5/11 »	Blended Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction. Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
All Day	Grand Maritime Innovations Conference Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship , 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA Cost: Free for students/government officials/faculty; Other rates available on the registration page Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Description: Please join us for the Second Annual Maritime Innovation: connecting, training and advancing conference. This event will bring together leading edge marine technology companies for a day of programming aimed at providing an overview of current trends in the industry, and a showcase of start up companies to discuss their new technologies. Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and Director of the Center for Marine Robotics at WHOI Dr. James Bellingham will be keynote speakers. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/innovate/events/maritimeinnovationsevent-april28/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepeneurship
« 4/12 - 4/30 »	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
« 4/27 - 2:00 PM	Accessibility Day Event Location: > See description for location Cost: 0.00 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Sci & Eng Bldg., Room 114 Massachusetts Office of Disabilities-Speakers Rita DiNunzio Training Manager & Evan Bjorklund, General Counsel The Presentation will entail: A brief overview/history of disability rights in MA and the U.S. General overview of Americans with Disabilities Act (including service animals) Overview of MOD and the work we do Overview of state agencies that serve people with disabilities Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Mechanical Engineering Industrial Systems Enginering (ISE) MS Project Presentation by Mr. Eugene Manzone, 4/28/16 Location: Textiles Building 101E Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE)] MS Project Presentation by Mr. Eugene Manzone April 28, 2016 3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m. Textile Building, Room 101E TOPIC: A Study of the Trace Metals in Lubricating Greases ABSTRACT: As the semiconductor industry gets more and more competitive, so doesn't the components that go into manufacturing of these parts. One aspect of this manufacturing process is the grease and oil that are used in the bearings that are a part of the semiconductor process. Greases and oil that are specifically designed for these applications offer the highest quality of performance. As Nye Lubricants is in the business of supplying fully synthetic greases and oils to companies throughout the world, naturally the semiconductor market is one industry that is a main target. ADVISOR: Dr. Wenzhen Huang (whuang@umassd.edu, 508-910-6568) COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Farhad Azadivar, Dr. Sherif D. El Wakil Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information please contact Dr. Wenzhen Huang (whuang@umassd.edu, 508-910-6518). Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
Friday, April 29, 2016
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	BMEBT Seminar by Dr. Michael L. Fisher, Southern Connecticut State Univ. Location: Textiles Building 101E Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series Description: TOPIC: Optimizing Cyanobacteria for Biomass Harvest and Finding New Uses for Biofuel Producing Strains Abstract: One attractive method to produce renewable energy is the development of biofuels made by cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria can be engineered to produce biofuels, biofuel precursors or valuable bioproducts from CO2, sunlight and water. A major obstacle to economical production of such bioproducts is harvesting cyanobacteria from their liquid media. Centrifugation, for instance, is energy intensive and increases production cost. We developed a novel process for biomass harvest in which cyanobacteria were engineered to express genes encoding type V secreted adhesins, which cause the cyanobacteria to precipitate from their culture medium without centrifugation. In a separate project, we are working to determine whether biofuel producing strains of cyanobacteria can be utilized as feedstock for heterotrophic organisms using R. eutropha as a model organism in a burgeoning co-culture system. Brief bio: Dr. Michael L. Fisher received his undergraduate BS in Biology from Siena College in Loudonville, NY. He earned his PhD in Microbiology at Tufts University in 2008. There, his research focused on the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis during pneumonic yersiniosis. For his first postdoctoral position, he studied genetic variation in M. tuberculosis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Wishing to establish a research program that could include undergraduates, Dr. Fisher took a second postdoc with Dr. Roy Curtiss III at ASU. There he worked on cyanobacterial genetics and strain optimization for biofuel production. Dr. Fisher is currently an assistant professor of biology at Southern Connecticut State University where his teaching focuses on Infectious diseases and he continues his research on cyanobacterial genetics. Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Yujie Wang Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: RELIABILITY MODELING OF PROBABILISTIC COMPETING FAILURES LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Reliability modeling and analysis are essential for safe and reliable operation of complex systems and networks in modern and evolving technologies. This dissertation research concentrates on modeling effects of probabilistic competing failures in reliability analysis of critical systems with functional dependence behavior, where operations of some system components (referred to as dependent components) rely on functions of other components (referred to as trigger components) in a probabilistic manner. A failure of the trigger component may cause two-fold effects. On one hand, if the trigger component failure occurs first, the corresponding dependent components may be isolated with certain probabilities; such an isolation effect can prevent the system function from being compromised by further failures of those dependent components. On the other hand, if any of the dependent components experiences a propagated failure that occurs before the trigger component failure, the entire system can fail due to the propagation effect. In summary, competitions exist in the time domain between the failure propagation and probabilistic isolation effects, which can make significant contributions to the overall system reliability. Such competitions however have not been addressed by existing studies. In this dissertation work, combinatorial and analytical methods are proposed to evaluate reliability of systems subject to the probabilistic competing failure effects. The proposed methods are applicable to arbitrary types of time-to-failure distributions for system components. Some complicated scenarios are modeled, including system components subject to multiple types of local failures that have different statistical relationships (independent, dependent, mutually-exclusive) with propagated failures, systems with multiple correlated probabilistic functional dependence groups, and systems subject to phased-mission requirements. Practical case studies of wireless sensor networks are performed to illustrate the proposed methodologies. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Committee Members: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. David W. Coit, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing or Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8883 or 508.999.8469, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu or hwang1@umassd.edu Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 4/28 - 5/12 »	David and Goliath: Giants Underdogs and conflict-Guest Speaker Memory Holloway Location: Liberal Arts Building 110 Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Description: Guest speaker Memory Holloway will be speaking on David and Goliath. This Lecture will include visual examples of the story and film clips. Sponsored by the Religious & Spiritual Office April 28th at 2 pm in Liberal Arts Room 110 Topical Areas: Students, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
2:00 AM - 3:00 AM	Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar Location: Textiles Building 101E Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar Friday, April 29th 2016 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Textile Building, Room 101E SPEAKER: Dr. Amir A. Aliabadi, Research Associate at MIT Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture TOPIC: Thermo-Fluids of Air in the Environment ABSTRACT: A few case studies are presented in thermo-fluids of air to characterize and solve modern-day problems specific to buildings and the environment. The first fundamental study investigates turbulent properties of the atmosphere such as boundary-layer height and turbulent flux parametrization, which greatly influence numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling. Various formulations are developed and validated using experimental data for use in Canadian weather forecast (GEM: Global Environmental Multi-scale) and air quality (MACH: Modelling Air quality and CHemistry) models. These models are currently being upgraded as a result of this research. The second study investigates airflow and heat transfer patterns within the urban environment of hot climate. Temperature sensitivity within urban canyons is studied in response to geometrical facet manipulations. Such studies guide optimal design of cities for moderating urban micro-climate. Current and future research plans in applications of thermo-fluids sciences in buildings and the environment are presented, both from fundamental and applied perspectives. BIO: Amir A. Aliabadi, is a mechanical engineer specialized in applications of thermo-fluids in buildings and the environment. He received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto (2006, 2008) and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (2013) in mechanical engineering. From 2013 to 2015, he held an NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Visiting Fellowship at Environment Canada, where he conducted research in air quality and atmospheric sciences. Since 2004, he has also worked in industry and provided consulting services to a wide range of clients including MDA Space Missions, Stantec, and atelier RZLBD. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and a visiting scholar in the Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 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! Students taking MNE-500 are REQUIRED to attend! All other MNE students are encouraged to attend (especially MNE seniors and MS students). EAS students are encouraged to attend. Thank you, Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM	College of Nursing - Doctoral Dissertation Defense Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: Kathleen Plante, RN, PhD(c) Nursing PhD Candidate RN-BS Students Perceptions of Instructor Caring in Online Nursing Courses: A Mixed-Method Study Date: April 29th, 2016 Time: 1:30pm-3:30pm Location: Charlton College of Business, Room:115 PhD Dissertation Committee: Maryellen Brisbois, PhD, APHN-BC (Chair) Kathy Gramling, PhD Marilyn Asselin, PhD, RN-BC Kristen Sethares, PhD, CNE Please RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing
« 4/27 - 5/11 »	Blended Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction. Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Young Frankenstein the Musical by Mel Brooks Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium , UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: $5 students and military, $10 general admission Contact: Theatre Company Description: SHOWTIMES Thursday, April 28 - 8pm Friday, April 29 - 8pm Saturday, April 30 - 2pm* & 8pm Sunday, May 1 - 4pm *Understudy show- understudies take the lead roles. From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen"), played by Nathaniel Tarantino, inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked side-kick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), played by Shayne Furtado, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), played by Cheyanne Patterson, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds. Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all the panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added. With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment! For more information visit our Facebook Page or contact the UMD Theatre Company or the 20Cent Fiction Theatre Company. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716700798568301/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Concerts, Theater, Visual Arts, 20 Cent Fiction, Student Organizations, Theater Company
« 4/12 - 4/30 »	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Brazil, Rodrigo Xavier, PhD, to present a lecture on Lusophone Identity: A lecture on JosÃ© Saramagoâ€™s Journals Location: Foster Administration Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: This event is free and open to the public and the lecture will be in English. Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Description: The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture along with Brown University welcome Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Rodrigo Xavier, PhD for a lecture on: Lusophone Identity: A lecture on Jose Saramago's Journals Date: Friday, April 29, 2016 Time: 10:00-11:00am Location: Foster Administration Building- room 333 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road Parking: Please park in lot 7 Rodrigo Xavier is an Associate Professor of Lusophone Studies (Linguistics and Literature) at Technologic Federal University of Parana (Brazil), and is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (USA). His research is in the Department of German Studies under the guidance of Professor David E. Wellbery. His experience in the areas of Lusophone Literature and Comparative Literature investigates the relationship between literature, philosophy and other arts. This lecture aims to present some questions that involve Jose Saramago's political stance and make it possible to grant him the denomination of Intellectual. Either in their field of action, the Literature, or in his public life as a Portuguese citizen, the production and the political posture of the writer deal with the national social concerns and confer to him an extremely important role in the scenario of the literature in the second half of the 20th Century. Any questions, please contact Lisa Tavares at 508-999-8255 or ltavares4@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Educational Leadership, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese, Teaching & Learning, Study Abroad, Literature, Student Organizations, Lectures and Seminars
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense Location: DION Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: Kathleen Elliott, ANP-C, DNP(c) Nursing DNP Candidate Multifaceted Educational Approach to Decrease Stigma Associated with Substance Use Disorders by Nurse Practitioner Students Date: April 29th, 2016 Time: 3pm-4pm Location: Dion, Room 203 DNP Capstone Defense Committee: Christine Gadbois, DNP, APHN-BC (Capstone Advisor) Janet Sobczak, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC Lee Dalphonse, CAGS, LMHC, NCC,CCMHC, LCDS, ICCDP-D Amanda Wright, LMHC Karen Blanchette, LICSW RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
Saturday, April 30, 2016
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Young Frankenstein the Musical by Mel Brooks Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium , UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: $5 students and military, $10 general admission Contact: Theatre Company Description: SHOWTIMES Thursday, April 28 - 8pm Friday, April 29 - 8pm Saturday, April 30 -2pm* & 8pm Sunday, May 1 - 4pm *Understudy show- understudies take the lead roles. From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen"), played by Nathaniel Tarantino, inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked side-kick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), played by Shayne Furtado, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), played by Cheyanne Patterson, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds. Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all the panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added. With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment! For more information visit our Facebook Page or contact the UMD Theatre Company or the 20Cent Fiction Theatre Company. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716700798568301/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Concerts, Theater, Visual Arts, 20 Cent Fiction, Student Organizations, Theater Company
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Young Frankenstein the Musical by Mel Brooks Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium , UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: $5 students and military, $10 general admission Contact: Theatre Company Description: SHOWTIMES Thursday, April 28 - 8pm Friday, April 29 - 8pm Saturday, April 30 -2pm* & 8pm Sunday, May 1 - 4pm *Understudy show- understudies take the lead roles. From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen"), played by Nathaniel Tarantino, inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked side-kick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), played by Shayne Furtado, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), played by Cheyanne Patterson, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds. Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all the panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added. With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment! For more information visit our Facebook Page or contact the UMD Theatre Company or the 20Cent Fiction Theatre Company. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716700798568301/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Concerts, Theater, Visual Arts, 20 Cent Fiction, Student Organizations, Theater Company
« 4/28 - 5/12 »	David and Goliath: Giants Underdogs and conflict-Guest Speaker Memory Holloway Location: Liberal Arts Building 110 Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Description: Guest speaker Memory Holloway will be speaking on David and Goliath. This Lecture will include visual examples of the story and film clips. Sponsored by the Religious & Spiritual Office April 28th at 2 pm in Liberal Arts Room 110 Topical Areas: Students, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	EMIRGE Conference Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: On April 30th, UMass Dartmouth's Graduate Student Senate will be hosting the inaugural EMIRGE (Empowering Massachusetts Innovation and Research in Graduate Education) Conference, a statewide Massachusetts graduate studies conference. The 2016 conference focuses on Innovation, Impact, and Inclusion. Massachusetts is the birthplace of public education and continues to lead the country with innovation and transformative thinking. This conference will empower the university community by creating a venue for researchers across the disciplines to collaborate, engaging students with the research of faculty, peers, and communities and finally by building relationships with the community and political leaders for social change. Breakfast and lunch are included with an afternoon social hour. Registration is FREE at Eventbrite.com/e/emirge-conference-tickets-22231116869. The first one hundred people to register will get a surprise gift! Contact GSS@umassd.edu for more information. Link: Eventbrite.com/e/emirge-conference-tickets-22231116869 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Graduate Studies, Conferences & Events
« 4/27 - 5/11 »	Blended Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction. Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 4/13 - 5/11 »	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
« 4/12 - 4:00 PM	Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Location: University Art Gallery Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940) Date: April 12-April 30, 2016 Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon. Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30. The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm. For more information, please contact Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu or Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550 Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences &amp;amp; Events
« 4/2 - 5/14 »	2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free Admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: April 2-May 14, 2016 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space. The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts

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