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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
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Workshop: Mentoring Undergraduate Research - Lessons form Humanities Research at Brown University
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: Description: Prof. Mignone and Prof. Thomas will share their experiences mentoring a wide range of humanities students at Brown University. In examining both best practices and pitfalls, they will address the challenges and rewards of carrying out guided research with undergraduates, both for scholarly projects and course development.
PRESENTER BIO: Sarah Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, whose faculty she joined in 2013. Her research focuses on contemporary literature and film from Spain and Latin America with a special interest in post-dictatorship societies. At Brown she has mentored undergraduates in projects including course design, honors thesis research, and her own scholarly projects, as well as serving as the advisor for a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
Lisa Mignone has been an Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University since 2009. As a social historian of the Roman Republic, she focuses primarily on the ongoing and interactive relationship of historical events and the sites in which they occur. She has affiliations in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. In these various roles, Lisa Mignone has collaborated with undergraduates on her own research, as well as mentored undergraduate projects such as honors theses, independent studies, summer projects overseas, and database construction.
To register, please go to the main event calendar. If you have any questions, please contact Sandy Viveiros at sviveiros@umassd.edu, Link for registration: http://calendar.umassd.edu/cal/main/showMain.rdo
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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5:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Family Businesses: Adjusting to the Changing Economy
- Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
, 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA
- Cost: Alliance Member – $15.00; Faculty, Student – Free; FBA members – $15.00; Non-Member – $20.00
- Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Description: Increases in the minimum wage. Federal mandates and skyrocketing health care costs. Rising interest rates. Election year posturing and promises. Challenges in succession planning. All these issues, and more, can create barriers to growth for a family owned business. But they are not insurmountable. Join the Family Business Association and SNEEF to discover how family businesses like yours are adapting and adjusting to the rapid economic changes we are experiencing.
Panelists:
Moderator: Mike Maak, NorthEast Business Advisors
Debra Drapalla, Senior Vice President, Webster Bank
Chris Ciunci, President, Tribal Vision Marketing Agency
Travis Droiun, Lead Audit Partner, MFA
Contact: Toby Stapleton, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director at UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, tstapleton@umassd.edu 508.910.9807, 151 Martine Street, Fall River, 02723
- Link: http://www.sneef.org/event-2162636
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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6:30 PM
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8:00 PM
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How to Lose Your Virginity (Documentary & Q+A with director)
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: This eye-opening and irreverent documentary explores why female virginity is still so valued in our hyper-sexualized society. Traveling through the worlds of religion, history, pop culture and $30 internet hymens, the film reveals the myths and misogyny behind a rite of passage that everyone thinks about but few truly understand.
The film with be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Terese Shechter.
Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by:
LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/883932755057570/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Films, Health Services, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Livewell
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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April Claggett: Light Stories
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: free
- Contact: Fine Arts Department
- Description: New Works on Dura-Lar at Gallery 244, Star Store Campus
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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2:00 PM
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4:00 PM
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Introduction to Photoshop, Part 1
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The first workshop in the three part series covers the basics of Adobe Photoshop, and is intended for users with little or no Photoshop experience. Topics covered include an introduction to color theory, working with the document window, the toolbox, and panels. Also covered are the use of the painting tools, the history brush, and different methods of color selection.
Seating is limited, so sign up today!
Contact Rich Legault for more information
RLegault@umassd.edu
508-999-8799
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
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1:30 PM
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5:30 PM
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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
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12:15 PM
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1:00 PM
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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
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3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
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DFO Seminar - 2/17/16 - Steve Cadrin
- Location: > Off-campus location, see description for details
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Management Strategies for Mixed Species Commercial, Recreational and Subsistence Fisheries
Steve Cadrin
Associate Professor
UMass Dartmouth / SMAST / DFO
Wednesday, February 10, 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
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