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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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Call for Nominations: Provost's Award
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology.
The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development.
See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations.
Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/
- Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
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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
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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
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Department of Fisheries Oceanography Masters Thesis Defense
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology
Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Masters Thesis Defense Announcement
Validation of Age Determination Methods for Monkfish
(Lophius americanus)
By
Cristiana Bank
Advisor
Steve Cadrin
Monday, May 9, 2016
1:00 pm
SMAST II, Room 157
200 Mill Rd, Fairhaven, MA
Abstract:
Monkfish, Lophius americanus, support an important commercial fishery in the Northeastern United States. Despite healthy stock status, annual catch limits are relatively low, largely because of scientific uncertainty in the stock assessment. The age determination method for monkfish has not been validated, contributing uncertainty in the assessment. Annual growth rings are currently counted on the vertebrae and are assumed to follow a seasonal pattern. To validate the vertebral ageing protocol and to explore alternative ageing methods, we injected oxytetracycline or fluorexon into individual monkfish, kept them alive in the laboratory, and subjected them to a seasonal cycle of temperature, light, and feeding. Monkfish were also injected in the field with the same chemical markers as part of an on-going tagging study. The chemical left a visible mark on the growth ring that was forming at the time of injection. Vertebrae, otoliths, and illicia were analyzed from fish that lived six months or more after marking, from both the laboratory study and the field recaptures. Digital images were taken with an ultraviolet light to illuminate the mark and reflected light to show the growth rings. An experienced monkfish age reader determined age from vertebrae and each annulus after the chemical mark was identified. Results indicate that annuli counts on vertebrae cannot be used to accurately determine the age of monkfish, irregular growth of the otolith prohibits its use as a reliable age structure, and age determination using illicia is the most promising.
For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
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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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ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Yung-Hsiang Lu, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: Opportunities and Challenges of Global Network Cameras
Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
Abstract:
Millions of network cameras have been deployed. Many of these cameras provide publicly available data, continuously streaming live views of national parks, city halls, streets, highways, and shopping malls. A person may see multiple tourist attractions through these cameras, without leaving home. Researchers may observe the weather in different cities. Using the data, it is possible to observe natural disasters at a safe distance. News reporters may obtain instant views of an unfolding event. A spectator may watch a celebration parade from multiple locations using street cameras. Despite the many promising applications, the opportunities of using global network cameras for creating multimedia content have not been fully exploited. The opportunities also bring forth many challenges. Managing the large amount of data would require fundamentally new thinking. The data from network cameras are unstructured and have few metadata describing the content. Searching the relevant content would be a challenge. Because network cameras continuously produce data, processing must be able to handle the streaming data. This imposes stringent requirements of the performance. In this presentation, I will share the experience building a software system that aims to explore the opportunities using the data from global network cameras. CAM2 (Continuous Analysis of Many CAMeras, https://cam2.ecn.purdue.edu/) is cloud-based system for studying the worldwide phenomena using network cameras. CAM2 provides an event-based API (application programming interface) and is open to researchers to analyze the data for their studies. The web interface allows users to select the cameras for analysis. The cloud computing engine can scale in response to the needs of analysis programs.
Biography:
Yung-Hsiang Lu is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University. He is an ACM distinguished scientist and ACM distinguished speaker. He is the lead investigator of a software system for analyzing thousands of network cameras worldwide. This cloud-based system can retrieve and analyze real-time visual data. More than 200 people have signed up as users. He is the lead organizer of the first Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge in 2015. He obtained the Ph.D. from Stanford University.
This Seminar is open to the public free of charge.
*For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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