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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Wagatwe Wanjuki Keynote - The Power of Storytelling: Speaking Our Truth to End Rape Culture Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: She is the founder of F Yeah Feminists, one of the first and most popular feminist blogs on Tumblr. She is a founding co-organizer of the Know Your IX ED ACT NOW campaign focusing on holding schools accountable to protect the civil right for an education free of sexual violence. Her story and commentary is featured in It Was Rape and The Hunting Ground. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM	WRC Creative Writing Workshop Location: Liberal Arts Building 220 Contact: Writing and Reading Center Description: Want to hook your audience with original ideas and voice? Use of metaphor and simile can enhance your academic and creative writing by helping your audience understand your unique point of view. Come learn about how to eliminate clichÃ©s and add interest and insight to your writing! How would you characterize anger, regret, and fear? Come find out! Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	TEA Time: DMPTool Presentation Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: TEA Time: DMPTool Presentation Presenter: Zac Painter, Assistant Librarian,Information Services Location: Office of Faculty Development, Claire T. Carney Library Contact: Sponsored Projects Administration for more information spa@umassd.edu Link: http://www.umassd.edu/spa/newsevents/ Topical Areas: Sponsored Projects Administration
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Excel Grade Books Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This workshop is geared toward educators who wish to simplify the process of evaluating student performance and calculating final grades. Participants learn how to organize student data on a worksheet, calculate averages, weighted averages, and use a lookup table to control the contribution of different scores toward a student's final grade. Excel can even convert number grades to letter grades automatically! Also covered are some of Excel's statistical functions. Previous Excel experience is required. This workshop will take place in the Library, Room 225. 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, topic: Faculty Development
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	ORAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDACY BY: Yang Liu Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: SIGNAL DETECTION AND SPATIAL SPECTRAL ESTIMATION USING COPRIME SENSOR ARRAYS WITH THE MIN PROCESSOR LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, SENG-213A ABSTRACT: Sparse array design in array processing allows the possibility of achieving the resolution of a densely populated uniform linear arrays (ULA) using new array geometries with much fewer sensors. The coprime sensor array (CSA) is a newly proposed non-uniform sparse array geometry interleaving two undersampled ULAs with coprime undersampling factors (sharing no common divisor greater than 1). Conventionally beamforming each CSA subarray produces two spatial spectra with grating lobes due to the spatial undersampling. CSA commonly uses a product processor, which multiplies one CSA subarray scanned response with the complex conjugate of the other to resolve the spatial aliasing ambiguities. However, this product processor produces a spatial power spectral density (PSD) estimate with a peak sidelobe higher than the full ULA peak sidelobe. Moreover, the resulting spatial PSD estimate is not necessarily positive semi-definite. This dissertation proposes a new CSA processor, named CSAmin, which chooses the minimum of the two CSA subarray scanned responses at each bearing to resolve the spatial aliasing ambiguities. The min processor reduces the peak sidelobe height and total sidelobe area over a product processor for the same CSA geometry and moreover, preserves the positive semi-definite characteristic of a true PSD. Several applications of the min processor are presented in this talk for improving CSA's capabilities in signal detection, PSD estimation and super resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. 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. David A. Brown and Dr. Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Kathleen E. Wage, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, George Mason University *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
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Italian Studies Panel Discussion Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Hosted by the Department of Foreign Literature and Languages and the Department of History --- When: 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13th, 2016 Where: Liberal Arts 117 Contact: Italian professor Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu for more information. --- Scratching on the Walls: Roman Graffiti as a Source of History presented by Prof. Crystal Lynn Lubinsky, Dept. of History Graffiti, especially spontaneous graffiti or doodling, is an 'in the moment' sentiment or reaction to a person's world. It matters very little that most of the examples would contain sarcasm or reflect only popular opinion of people and events because it would capture a common sentiment lost to a social historian as he/she wades through commissioned mediums or official histories. We will look at what Roman graffiti, especially that 'penned' by legionaries, has to offer on a few political and religious issues of the times. --- Donna-angelo and donna-demone: A Comparison of Poetic Ladies presented by Prof. Rose Facchini, Dept. of Foreign Literature and Languages The representation of the poet's Lady evolved in 13th century Italian literature, ranging from gentile muse to assertive woman. We will analyze the two authoritative Ladies of the poets Dante Alighieri and Cecco Angiolieri, and compare the conspicuous differences and subtle similarities between the donna-angelo Beatrice and the donna-demone Becchina. --- Renaissance Humanism and Ambiguity in Raphael's Portraits of Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X presented by Hannah Gadbois, Art History Major The presentation will introduce the subtleties of Renaissance humanism and consider how they are reflected in Raphael's portraits of Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X. I will further extrapolate on what these ambiguities say about the role of the pope and their public presentation. --- The Siege of Padua and the Development of Artillery Resistant Fortifications presented by Evan Weldon The Siege of Padua in 1509 saw the first successful defense of a city against a well-equipped army using modern cannons. The defensive innovations utilized here by the Paduans led to the development of what would become the standard fortification style in Europe, the Trace Italienne. --- Confraternities and Charity in Early Modern Bologna presented by Prof. Matthew Sneider, Dept. of History This paper will draw on a variety of primary source documents to highlight the importance of confraternities in the provision of charity in 16th and 17th century Bologna. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/968795629874732/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Foreign Literature and Languages, History, Liberal Arts, Art History, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Lectures and Seminars
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	DFO seminar - 4/13/16 - Richardson Location: > Off-campus location, see description for details Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Discovery of a spawning ground reveals diverse migration strategies in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) David Richardson NEFSC/NMFS/NOAA - Narragansett, RI Wednesday, April 13, 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), to 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
9:00 AM - 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
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	WORD! Spoken-word Performance & Open Mic Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: FREE Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Come enjoy and experience an evening of spoken-word performed by student in the WORD! course as well as open mic poets from the community. Sponsored by the CAS Dean's Office, Black Studies and the English Department Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Academic Affairs, Claire T. Carney Library, Black Studies, English, Liberal Arts, Music, Concerts, Poetry, Sustainability Office, Fredrick Douglass Unity House
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
« 4/2 - 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
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
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	33rd Annual Chemistry Department Honors & Awards Ceremony Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 206 Cost: free Contact: Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Description: Chemistry student majors are awarded for their academic achievements. Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	The Innocence Project-A story of wrongful conviction Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Dennis Maher spent 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Come listen to his story and from the New England Innocence project to get involved and find solutions to problems of wrongful conviction in the Criminal Justice System. Sponsored by the CAS Deans Office and Department of Crime and Justice Studies. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Lectures and Seminars
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Seminar Announcement Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Research Trends and the Funding Behind Them Mary Hensel Research Development Manager University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm SMAST I, Room 204 706 S. Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford, MA Abstract: A brief review of relevant agency strategic plans and how the best laid plans still shift to accommodate political expediency, weather events, health crises and other disruptions. Note: Seminar will be simulcast to SMAST II, Room 325. 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 additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
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 - 1:30 PM	Faculty Writing Workshop Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: The Office of Faculty Development’s Writing Group for Faculty provides UMass Dartmouth faculty with a structured yet flexible forum for discussing and stimulating their ongoing writing projects. The group will meet in the OFD lounge. Join us and get help with all aspects of your manuscript preparation from proof reading, to publication strategy input, to networking and collaboration with other colleagues both at UMassD. and other institutions that share your research passions. Lunch will be provided. Regular participation throughout the academic year is encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome. This workshop series will be facilitated by Nikolay Anguelov, Assistant Professor, Public Policy. Please contact Nikolay Anguelov at nanguelov@umassd.edu with any questions. 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
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Kate Nagy Senior Classical Voice Recital Location: CVPA Auditorium , CVPA-153 Contact: Music Department Description: Senior Classical Voice Recital Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts

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