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Sunday, April 8, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Blue and Gold Room of Campus Center Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Senior Classical Voice Recital Juliette Locke Location: CVPA Room 153 Contact: Music Department Description: Classical Voice Recital Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
« 4/2 - 4/10 »	2018 BFA Senior Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Reception Saturday, April 7, noon - 3 PM Exhibiting Artists: Hailey Angione (Ceramics) Bruce Bailey (Painting) Julianna Bardon (Sculpture) Rachel Brownell (Jewelry/Metals) Danielle DeVellis (Painting) James Donald (Painting) Amanda Doukas (Painting) Corrinn Jusell (Ceramics) Lamees Kraany (Painting) Erick Maldonado (Painting) Devin Messenger (Sculpture) Cody Oliveira-Gingras (Painting) Christopher Rogers (Textile Design/Fiber Arts) Brendan Troland (Painting) College of Visual and Performing Arts is proud to present the culminating exhibition of UMass Dartmouth graduating BFA students from Ceramics, Jewelry/Metals, Painting, Sculpture, and Textile Design/Fiber Arts in their Senior BFA exhibition at the CVPA Campus Gallery on the main campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 from April 2 through 10, 2018, with artist reception 12-3:00 PM on Saturday, April 7th. CVPA Campus Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday 10 am - 4 pm, Friday 10 am - noon www.umassd.edu/cvpa www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Monday, April 9, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Shared Voices Part III: Rape Culture, the University & #metoo Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: A roundtable discussion featuring Racine Amos, University of Rhode Island Women's Center's Coordinator, Violence Prevention & Advocacy Services Jessica Harris, UMass Dartmouth Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality's Assistant Director for Advocacy & Education, and Sherrie Andre, Student and Activist. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	College of Nursing Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Rachel Allen Location: Textiles Building , 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Nursing Announcement and Invitation Doctoral Dissertation Defense Title: The Role of Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Formulating the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 A Dissertation in Nursing Rachel Allen MSN, PMHNP-BC, RN Nursing PhD Candidate April 9, 2018 Textiles Room 011 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. contact e-mail and phone: mmccurry@umassd.edu, 508-910-6092 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, College of Nursing
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Writing & Reading Center: Resume Workshop Location: Liberal Arts Building 220 Contact: Writing and Reading Center Description: Join us to get some tips on how to create an effective resume or improve the one you already have. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Writing and Reading Center
« 4/2 - 4/10 »	2018 BFA Senior Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Reception Saturday, April 7, noon - 3 PM Exhibiting Artists: Hailey Angione (Ceramics) Bruce Bailey (Painting) Julianna Bardon (Sculpture) Rachel Brownell (Jewelry/Metals) Danielle DeVellis (Painting) James Donald (Painting) Amanda Doukas (Painting) Corrinn Jusell (Ceramics) Lamees Kraany (Painting) Erick Maldonado (Painting) Devin Messenger (Sculpture) Cody Oliveira-Gingras (Painting) Christopher Rogers (Textile Design/Fiber Arts) Brendan Troland (Painting) College of Visual and Performing Arts is proud to present the culminating exhibition of UMass Dartmouth graduating BFA students from Ceramics, Jewelry/Metals, Painting, Sculpture, and Textile Design/Fiber Arts in their Senior BFA exhibition at the CVPA Campus Gallery on the main campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 from April 2 through 10, 2018, with artist reception 12-3:00 PM on Saturday, April 7th. CVPA Campus Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday 10 am - 4 pm, Friday 10 am - noon www.umassd.edu/cvpa www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	CANCELLED: ProCard & Travel Card Training Location: Foster Administration Building, Room 223 Contact: Purchasing Description: This 1 hour training class is required in order to obtain a University Procurement Card (Procard & Travel Card). Individuals may attend training either before or after submitting a Procard application, either way this training must be completed before an application receives final approval from Procurement. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM	Confidential HIV Testing Location: Oak Glen Hall Multipurpose Room, 1st floor Cost: Bring your health insurance card. Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: The test requires a blood draw, which is performed by a trained counselor from Seven Hills. Results are available approximately one week from the testing date. No appointments are necessary; testing provided on a first come, first served basis. BRING YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE CARD. (No one will be denied service based on insurance status.) EAT & DRINK WATER PRIOR TO ARRIVING FOR YOUR TEST. For more information about HIV testing, visit: http://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/hivtesting/ For more information on National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, visit: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/nyhaad-home Fact Sheet on HIV Among Youth (age 13-24), developed by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/group/age/youth/cdc-hiv-youth.pdf Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness 508.910.6965 http://www.umassd.edu/livewell Link: https://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/hivtesting/ Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Health Services, Livewell
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	College of Nursing DNP Capstone Defense by Erin Murphy Bernardo Location: Textiles Building , 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Nursing Announcement and Invitation Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense Screening for Postpartum Depression at Pediatric Well-Child Visits A Capstone Defense in Nursing Erin Murphy Bernardo, BSN, RN April 10, 2018 Textiles Building, room 011 9:30-11:00 a.m. contact e-mail and phone: kroush@umassd.edu, 508-910-6598 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, College of Nursing, Student Organizations
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Ishan G. Thakkar Location: Textiles Building 101E Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Design and Optimization of Interconnection and Memory Subsystems for Future Manycore Computing Location: College of Engineering Conference Room, Textiles Building (TXT), Room 101E Abstract: With ever-increasing core count, worsening dark silicon constraints, and growing performance demand of modern data-centric applications (e.g., big data and internet-of-things (IoT) applications), energy- efficient and low-latency data communications on and off the chip are becoming essential for emerging manycore computing systems. But unfortunately, due to their poor scalability, the state-of-the-art electrical interconnects and DRAM based main memories are projected to exacerbate the latency and energy costs of data communications. Recent advances in silicon photonics, 3D stacking, and non-volatile memory technologies have enabled the use of cutting-edge interconnection and memory subsystems, such as photonic interconnects, 3D-stacked DRAM, and phase change memory. These innovations have the potential to enhance the performance and energy-efficiency of future manycore systems. However, these emerging interconnection and memory subsystems still face many technology-specific challenges along with process, environment, and workload variabilities, which negatively impact their reliability overheads and implementation feasibility. My research has contributed several solutions that overcome multitude of these challenges and improve the energy-efficiency and reliability of manycore systems integrating photonic interconnects and emerging memory (3D-stacked DRAM and phase change memory) subsystems. In this talk, I will give an overview of my research contributions. Particularly, I will discuss about two of my research contributions in detail. First, I will discuss a novel low-overhead technique for runtime management of laser power in photonic networks-on-chip architectures. This technique makes use of semiconductor on-chip optical amplifiers to achieve loss-aware savings in laser power. Second, I will talk about my invented 3D decomposed DRAM architecture called 3D-ProWiz. 3D-ProWiz architecture employs through-silicon vias (TSVs) at subarray-level granularity to eliminate the need of using global wires, which in turn significantly reduces the latency and energy costs of DRAM accesses. Last, I will briefly discuss about my short- and long-term research and teaching goals, along with my collaboration and funding plans. Biography: Ishan Thakkar has a BE in electronics and communication engineering from the L.D. College of Engineering of Gujarat University, Gujarat, India. He received his MS degree in electrical engineering from Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins, CO, USA, where he is currently finishing his PhD in electrical engineering. His current research interests include silicon photonics, photonic networks-on-chip, high-speed optical interfaces, DRAM architectures, and non-volatile memories. He is the recipient of the best paper award from IEEE/ACM SLIP 2016 workshop, a best paper nomination from the IEEE ISQED 2016 conference, and a best paper nomination from the TMSCS journal in 2017 for his research contributions. Ishan has served as an Organizing Committee Member of the 2017 IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) conference. He has also been involved in the Technical Program Committee of the 2017 IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) conference and the 2018 IEEE Embedded and VLSI Design conference. The seminar is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Karen L. Payton at 508.999.8434, or by via email at kpayton@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	National Poetry Month Reading with Angel Nafis College of Arts & Sciences Location: University Club, Campus Center Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Angel Nafis, author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/New School Poetica, 2012) will be reading at the University Club- Campus Center College of Arts and Sciences Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Black Studies, English, Women and Gender Studies
« 4/2 - 4:00 PM	2018 BFA Senior Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Reception Saturday, April 7, noon - 3 PM Exhibiting Artists: Hailey Angione (Ceramics) Bruce Bailey (Painting) Julianna Bardon (Sculpture) Rachel Brownell (Jewelry/Metals) Danielle DeVellis (Painting) James Donald (Painting) Amanda Doukas (Painting) Corrinn Jusell (Ceramics) Lamees Kraany (Painting) Erick Maldonado (Painting) Devin Messenger (Sculpture) Cody Oliveira-Gingras (Painting) Christopher Rogers (Textile Design/Fiber Arts) Brendan Troland (Painting) College of Visual and Performing Arts is proud to present the culminating exhibition of UMass Dartmouth graduating BFA students from Ceramics, Jewelry/Metals, Painting, Sculpture, and Textile Design/Fiber Arts in their Senior BFA exhibition at the CVPA Campus Gallery on the main campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 from April 2 through 10, 2018, with artist reception 12-3:00 PM on Saturday, April 7th. CVPA Campus Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday 10 am - 4 pm, Friday 10 am - noon www.umassd.edu/cvpa www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Introduction to Access Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Microsoft Access. Participants create a database, define fields, work with tables and create basic reports. Data entry, find, sort, and query features are covered in detail. Importing and exporting data, as well as the creation of lookups and input masks are also introduced. No previous Access experience is needed. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Ordinary Persons Respond in Times of Crisis: The Holocaust in Vienna Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Center for Jewish Culture Description: How do ordinary people and families react and respond under duress while facing an uncertain future? University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor and author Dr. Ilana Offenberger will address these questions while discussing her new publication in the Palgrave Series in the History of Genocide: The Jews of Nazi-Vienna, 1938-1945: Rescue and Destruction Scholarly Lecture followed by Question and Answer Session Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, University Community
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Italian Studies Panel Discussion 2018 Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Italian Studies 4th Annual Panel Discussion Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Time: 4:00 PM Location: LARTS 117 A panel discussion where students from various disciplines present their original research on topics within Italian Studies. This year, students will present their papers on Dante Alighieri, historical memory, and the Venetian Arsenale. Hosted by the Department of Foreign Literature and Languages and the Department of History. For more information, contact Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu or Prof. Matthew Sneider at msneider@umassd.edu. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/783837718471533/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Literature and Languages, History, Lectures and Seminars
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Sexual Assault Awareness Month #metoo Tabling Location: Campus Center Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Read and Share Stories from Survivors of Sexual Violence Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Last day to Withdraw from a class Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Today is the last day to withdraw from a class. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Spring
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Department of Fisheries Oceanography / SMAST seminar - April 11, 2018 - Dr. Douglas Zemeckis Location: New Bedford , New Bedford, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography Applied Research and Educational Programming as Part of Rutgers University’s Marine Extension Program Dr. Douglas Zemeckis Assistant Professor Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Wednesday, April 11, 2018 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm SMAST-E rm. 101/102 836 South Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, MA Abstract: U.S. Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862, which laid the foundation for further legislation enabling land-grant universities to conduct research to be disseminated to the public. Rutgers University has served as the land-grant university in New Jersey since the 1860’s and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) was established in 1880 to carry out the land-grant mission focused on serving the needs of New Jersey residents, communities, and businesses through research and outreach. Cooperative Extension was established in 1914 and brought Rutgers faculty members into every county in New Jersey. I serve as a County Agent III (Assistant Professor), or the “Marine Extension Agent”, for Ocean, Atlantic, and Monmouth counties in New Jersey. The purpose of this position is to implement educational programming and applied research appropriate to the needs of clientele in fisheries, aquaculture, and related coastal resource management. This seminar will provide an overview of ongoing applied research and educational programming as part of marine extension efforts at Rutgers University. The primary research project discussed will focus on estimating and reducing the discard mortality rate of black sea bass in offshore recreational fisheries, including educating stakeholders on recommended best-practices for reducing discard mortality. Highlighted educational programs will include a new course on fisheries science, entitled Introductory Fisheries Science for Stakeholders (IFISSH), and a course focused on estuarine ecology, shellfish biology, and aquaculture as part of the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program (BBSRP). The projects and programs offered as part of marine extension efforts at Rutgers University will provide valuable examples and lessons for others working to address marine issues in different states. To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org/ and click on "Alternate login" you will have to login as smast@umassd.edu with the password: smastumassd After login you will have to click on ALL CLASSES (MAR 700-01 - DEOS seminar or MAR 700-02 - DFO Seminar) and click on the green LIVE streaming To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to https://www.umassd.edu/smast/events/seminar-series/ 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
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Faculty/Staff Drop-in Mindfulness Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Share in a brief mindfulness practice with colleagues. People are welcome to drop-in at any point in the semester. No prior experience with mindfulness is needed. Location: Reflection Room, Campus Center (223) For more information, contact: Aminda O’Hare, ext. 8761, aohare@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Summit Financial Reporting Training - LIB135 Location: Library 135 Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Learn how to run query's in Summit Financial Reporting Lookup Budget information Lookup Open Encumbrances Save Reporting Criteria Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Master of Science Thesis Defense by: Matthew John Curtis Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Multiplicative Processing of Stepped Frequency Measurements for Super-Resolution Range Profile Estimation Location: College of Business Conference Room (CCB), Room 340 Abstract: Fine range resolution capability plays a significant role in precision estimation of the distance between a target of interest and a radiating source using radio frequency (RF) sensors. The extraction of this information impacts existing and emerging ranging applications such as remote monitoring of GPS navigation, radio imaging, collision avoidance automation, cardiorespiratory systems, and position location technologies. When a scattered signal is detected by an RF system, the relative phase difference between the transmitted and received signal is analyzed to determine a timing delay, consequently, the range between the radio and the target of interest. Range resolution is a performance metric that defines a waveform's ability to distinguish between multiple targets while also increasing the accuracy of the range estimate. This metric is inversely proportional to the operating bandwidth of the transmitted signal. Pulse compression waveforms and stepped frequency waveforms have been developed over the years to achieve fine resolution measurements when generating range profiles of targets. A super-resolution technique known as time-delay product processing (TDPP), which utilizes multiplicative processing of stepped frequency measurements to generate range-profiling, is introduced in this thesis to achieve range resolution which is significantly better than that which is commensurate with the actual bandwidth. Simulations are used to study the accuracy and limitations of this technique due to noise and interference. Simulations show that in high signal-to-noise (SNR) environments, the TDPP method using small bandwidths is able to achieve range resolution which is commensurate with those from linear processing of very large bandwidth stepped frequency waveforms. In low SNR scenarios, the TDPP method does not perform as well because its time-bandwidth product is significantly lower. Simulations are complemented by the use of S-band radio measurements from the universal software radio peripheral (USRPTM) system. USRPTM is a software defined radio (SDR) that allows for the flexible emulation of a radio system, permitting the user to manipulate tunable RF hardware through the use of software, eliminating time constraints required for the design and testing of an RF system. Processing indoor measurements from the USRPTM system using the TDPP technique further validated the accuracy of the proposed method. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam Committee Members: Dr. Antonio H. Costa and Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth and Dr. David Kagan,Physics Department *For further information, please contact Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam at 508.999.8534, or via email at dkasilingam@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Annual Job and Internship Expo Location: Tripp Athletic Center , 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA Contact: Career Development Center Description: Connect with organizations looking to hire UMassD students from All Majors for internships, full-time career opportunities and part-time jobs. Please dress professionally, come prepared with resumes and be prepared for an on-the-spot interview. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Career Development Center
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Performance Jam Session Location: CVPA Room 104 Contact: Music Department Description: Jim Robitaille Trio Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Music, University Marketing
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Department of Estuarine and Oceans Sciences - SMAST Seminar 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 Seminar Announcement "Biology, Chemistry, or Physics? Rethinking Controls on Marine Metal Cycling" Dr. Tristan Horner Assistant Scientist Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm SMAST East, Rooms 101/102 836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford, MA To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org/ and click on "Alternate login". You will have to login as "smast@umassd.edu" with the password: smastumassd. After login you will have to click on ALL CLASSES (MAR 700-01 - DEOS Seminar or MAR 700-02 - DFO Seminar) and click on the green LIVE streaming. To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to https://www.umassd.edu/smast/events/seminar-series/ 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
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Teaching Introductory Courses in Your Department Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Facilitated by: Eiishiro Kazumori (Economics), Anna Dempsey & Rebecca Uchill (CVPA), and Chrystal Lubinsky & Matt Sneider (History) Please join our faculty from different departments and colleges sharing their major initiatives, accomplishments, assessment, challenges, and experiences teaching introductory courses at UMassD. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP through event calendar. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	#MeToo, Now What? Short Film Screening Location: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: PBS series, #MeToo, Now What? hosted by Executive editor Zainab Salbi goes beyond the headlines about sexual harassment to ask how we got here and how we move forward. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Films, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Word Tables, Graphics, and Templates Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: This workshop covers Microsoft Word’s tables and graphics features in detail. The effective use of these tools will make your documents more professional and memorable. This workshop also explores the use of templates, and other time-saving features of Word. Templates are used as blueprints for standardized documents, such as stationery. Using templates eliminates the repetitive task of creating each document from scratch. Familiarity with the basic text-editing features of Word is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
Thursday, April 12, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	QPR Suicide Prevention Training Location: > See description for location Cost: Free. Pre-registration required at https://webapps.umassd.edu/events/healtheducation/ Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and intervene effectively. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer, three simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. LOCATION:Liberal Arts Building (LARTS), Room 119 Light refreshments provided. Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness 508.910.6965 http://www.umassd.edu/livewell If you are in crisis, please call The National Suicide Prevention Helpline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or text Hello to 741-741, the Crisis Text Line. Both services are available 24/7. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/qprsuicidepreventiontraining/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Corsairs Care, Health Services, Livewell
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Afternoon Concert Series Location: CVPA Room 153 Contact: Music Department Description: Verona String Quartet Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Music, University Marketing
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Blockchain & Cryptocurrency 101 Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship , 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA Cost: Limited tickets start at $15, then $25, then $50... Sign up early! Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Description: Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are changing the way the world works as we speak. Take part in this key event to learn the inner workings of how the blockchain works, what are cryptocurrencies and how should you approach getting involved in this massively exploding movement. Our first event was a home run. So our second event, we are going to take a much deeper dive. We will discuss: What Is New Finance? We explain the concept of bitcoin, and how its underlying blockchain technology is being used by hundreds of altcoins and Initial Coin Offerings. How Do I Invest? We explain step-by-step how to get started with an online account, how to protect your investments, and how to buy, sell, and trade. Evaluating Investment Opportunities. We explain how to build a diversified portfolio, how to analyze Initial Coin Offerings, and how to choose altcoins. Research and Recommendations. We explain our top picks from the hundreds of altcoins and ICOs, and walk attendees through our Plain-English Portfolio. We will be joined by: John Hargrave (Moderator) - John is the publisher of the investment website Bitcoin Market Journal (www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com). Their mission is to make the world of New Finance accessible to ordinary investors. From bitcoin to digital currencies to ICOs, their team of analysts provides plain-English explanations and expert recommendations. John has a wealth of knowledge and we couldn't be happier to have him join the conversation. Navroop Sahdev - Navroop works at the cutting edge of the Financial Services industry, vertical technologies (like Blockchain) and Economic theory (drawing upon Innovation, Networks theory and Complex Systems), creating valuable Business Intelligence. Her experience includes scientific research, business development, team building and business strategy. She holds a host of leadership roles in the DLT space, both as a practitioner as well as a researcher, and speaks regularly at FinTech and blockchain conferences. She also serves on the advisory boards of a tech-driven companies, across industries. Nicholas Napp - Nicholas Napp is an experienced technology executive with 40+ products brought to market including enterprise/B2B and B2C applications. 20+ apps for iOS and Android. Extensive history in VR and AR (dating back to 1992 and 2008 respectively). Increasingly active in a diverse range of Blockchain related applications. Dr. Muhammad (Ali) Chaudhary - Dr. Muhammad (Ali) Chaudhary is a well-published data-scientist and physician working as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. His work focuses on big data methodologies on loosely structured data to tackle public health and health economics issues in the U.S. He has recently co-founded Inkrypt, a distributed content hosting platform, leveraging distributed computing and blockchain technology, to tackle the issue of censorship in journalism. Rahul Chandra - Rahul is an award-winning technology executive with expertise in monetizing new technologies, creating new business models, establishing partner ecosystems and developing innovative sales campaigns. He has generated over $500M in incremental sales during his 20 year career across utilities, disaster recovery, telecom, Cloud hosting, IOT, and most recently blockchain technologies. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Coinscape Advisors, a blockchain-focused advisory firm that offers fundraising, legal, technology and business development services, and previously held senior leadership positions at several Global 500 companies where he drove exponential revenue growth of several business units.= Please join us. If you have any questions, please email Frank Aiello at faiello979@gmail.com. Frank Aiello - President Rhode Island Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Association Link: http://sneef.org/page-1534177 Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepeneurship, _Charlton College of Business
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Holocaust Memorial Day program Location: University Club, Campus Center Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Holocaust Memorial Program Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Travel Registry(Terra Dotta) Drop In Training - Foster 223 Location: Foster Administration Building, Room 223 Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Travel Registry Drop In session - Review how to register travel in Terra Dotta. - Ask Questions about how to register Travel in Terra Dotta. - Learn where to find FAQ's and how to access the application - Bring a laptop if you need assistance with the procedure Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Writing & Reading Center: Resume Workshop Location: Liberal Arts Building 220 Contact: Writing and Reading Center Description: Join us to get some tips on how to create an effective resume or improve the one you already have. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Writing and Reading Center
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Humanizing Online Discussions with VoiceThread Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool for engaging in rich, asynchronous conversations around images, documents, presentations, and videos. Come join us to learn about taking your online discussions to the next level. (In Lib 135) Topical Areas: Workshop, Training, audience: Faculty
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM	457 SMART PLAN Financial Advisor One on One Sessions Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Contact Joanne Costa in Human Resources at x8083 with questions Topical Areas: University Community, Human Resources
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Resumes and More for Engineering Students Location: > See description for location Contact: Career Development Center Description: Get your help with your resume, cover letter, and job search in this session geared toward Engineering students. Bring your questions and resume if you have one. The event will be held in DION 103. Topical Areas: Students, College of Engineering, Career Development Center
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM	457 SMART PLAN Financial Advisor One on One Sessions Location: > See description for location Contact: Human Resources Description: April 12, May 10 in CCB 306 Topical Areas: University Community
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Kekeli African Music & Dance Ensemble Location: > See description for location Contact: Music Department Description: At AHA New Bedford Festival Downtown New Bedford, MA Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Music, University Marketing
Friday, April 13, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Street Harassment Awareness Week Location: Campus Center Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Stop by our table for free buttons! #endstreetharassment Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Defense by: Ian Max Teplitz Rooney Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Variance Reduction Techniques For Power Spectral Density Estimation With Coprime Sensor Arrays Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A ABSTRACT: A coprime sensor array (CSA) is a sparse array geometry that interleaves two spatially undersampled uniform linear arrays (ULAs) with coprime undersampling factors. The CSA spans the same aperture and has equivalent resolution as a fully populated ULA, but uses fewer sensors. Previous works have introduced three CSA processors as spatial power spectral density (PSD) estimators: the Product, Min, and Blend processors. However, two of these processors display increased PSD estimate variance over the ULA PSD estimate. This dissertation focuses on reducing the variance of the CSA PSD estimators. PSD estimation traditionally relies on averaging uncorrelated coherent measurements (snapshots) to reduce variance. However, non-stationary underwater sonar environments often preclude increasing the number of snapshots required to achieve a desirable PSD variance. In the traditional signal processing literature, there are two alternative methods to reduce variance without additional snapshot cost. The multitaper (MT) method and Welch's overlapping segment averaging (WOSA) method improve PSD variance by O(K) at the expense of an O(K) resolution decrease by averaging K uncorrelated PSD estimates. Multitaper obtains these uncorrelated estimates by windowing the array with K orthogonal tapers that span the entire array aperture. In contrast, WOSA obtains the uncorrelated estimates by subdividing the array into K possibly overlapping segments. This dissertation extends these two existing ULA variance reduction techniques to the CSA processors, making four main contributions. The first proposes the multitapered Product processor (MT-Product) that estimates the spatial PSD with reduced variance with respect to the traditional CSA Product processor but still uses fewer sensors than a fully populated ULA. The second proposes the multitapered Min processor (MT-Min) that reduces the PSD estimate variance further than either MT-Product or Product. The MT-Min estimator has variance comparable to a multitapered ULA. The third proposes the multitapered Blend processor (MT-Blend) that blends MT-Product's attenuation of multiple source cross-terms with MT-Min's low variance while still achieving an O(K) variance reduction over the traditional Blend processor. The final contribution proposes the Welch overlapping segment averaging Product processor (WOSA-Product) that estimates the spatial PSD with reduced variance with respect to the traditional CSA Product processor but still uses fewer sensors than a fully populated ULA. WOSA-Product is generally able to form a larger number of uncorrelated PSD estimates than MT-Product. Closed-form statistics for spatially white Gaussian processes are derived for MT-Product, MT-Min, and WOSA-Product. Simulations verify the variance reduction predicted by the analytical derivations each processor, and the effects of WOSA-Product segment length on resolution, variance reduction, and peak sidelobe levels are discussed. 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. Dayalan Kasilingam and Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Kathleen E. Wage, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University. *For further information, please contact Dr. John 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
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Biology Distinguished Speaker Event - The Singing Planet: Why Listen to the Ocean? Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Where: Grand Reading Room, Claire T. Carney Library When: Friday, April 13th 2018, at 12pm Join us at 11:30am for coffee and refreshments! The noises we humans generate to support our way of life are imposing a biological cost on ocean life. Dr. Christoper Clark, an underwater bioacoustics expert, will discuss the huge range over which this singing planet's ocean life can be observed and why it's critical that we listen. Public welcome. For more information, please visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/945498155625897/ or contact Beth Larson elarson1@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/945498155625897/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, SMAST, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Biology, University Marketing
Saturday, April 14, 2018
« 3/21 - 4/18 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for 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 UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques 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 increase retention. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Senior Classical Piano Recital Nathan Dressel Location: CVPA Room 153 Contact: Music Department Description: Classical piano recital Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
« 3/31 - 5/12 »	2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: FREE Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 Locations: University Art Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 (3-5 PM, Introductions 4 PM) College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, (3-7 PM, After Party with a DJ: 5-7 PM) 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Artists: Robert Abele III, Suzi Ballenger, Christina Baril, Robert (boB) Brzozowski, Renata Cassiano, Linan Chen, Orfeo Fabbri, Natasha Feliciano, Emily Franicola, Ilir Mborja, Anuja Roy, Erin Monet Wheary, Summer Wenyu Wu, Jillian Shixiaoci Yu The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts proudly presents its 2018 Thesis Exhibition in two locations in Downtown New Bedford from March 31 through May 12. Fourteen graduating students representing a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and design are exhibiting their work for the first time, not only at the Star Store Campus, but also at the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! The presented work, according to Viera Levitt, exhibition co-curator and University Art Gallery director, is driven by compelling and engaging themes such as vulnerability, feminism, cultural differences, spatial explorations, and the disappearing life of the American farm. The Museum will feature works in ceramics, sculpture, fiber, digital art, prints, drawings, paintings, and a virtual reality experience within their Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery. The exhibition co-curator, Jamie Uretsky, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!, says, she is "always looking for compelling emerging talent and this year's batch of CVPA graduates are just that!" The exhibition catalog, designed by UMass Dartmouth Graphic Design students, will be available during the reception on April 7. Artist talks will take place in both spaces during AHA! Night on May 12 (6 pm Star Store Campus, 7 pm Museum). In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Soprafina Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston (Opening Reception Friday, June 1st). University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month) New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 newbedfordart.org instagram.com/nbam_aw facebook.com/NewBedfordArtMuseum Open Wednesday & Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Thursdays 12:00 - 9:00 pm Link: https://umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Theater, Visual Arts, Artisanry, Art History, Art Education

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