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Monday, September 28, 2015
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Farmers and Fishers: Portraits, Words, and Tools
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Farmers and Fishers
Curated by Joseph E. Ingoldsby
Farming and fishing have evolved with the centuries on the South Coast following a tradition of sustainability.The exhibition highlights the innovations and economics from the 18th century to the 21st century.
Dartmouth Town Hall - Third Floor Gallery and Dioramas
400 Slocum Road
Dartmouth, MA
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVx6DTVDHlE
- Topical Areas: University Community, WUMD
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Signups for Men's Club Volleyball Team
- Location: Science and Engineering Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: We are going to start up a men's Club Volleyball Team. Looking for men who have high school volleyball experience to play against other college club teams.
Contact Scott McGarty at smcgarty@umassd.edu . Would like to get players ASAP so we can get the forms in to start the team.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'.
Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo.
Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race.
Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression.
royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
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Psychology Department Brown Bag Series
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Psychology Department
- Description: Monday, Sept. 28th, 3-4pm
LARTS 213
The Psychology Department's Brown Bag Series is a research-talk series supported by the Provost's Departmental Seminar Series. Please join us for the first talk of the 2015-2016 AY by our newest faculty member, Dr. Christina Crowe.
Investigating School Connectedness and Indicators of Academic and Psychological Adjustment in Early Adolescence
School connectedness has emerged in the educational and developmental literature as a protective factor during adolescence (Bond et al., 2007; Libbey, 2004; McNeely, Nonnemaker, & Blum, 2002). When students report feeling connected in school, they tend to demonstrate more positive educational and psychosocial outcomes, including better grades (Blum, 2005; McNeely et al., 2002), increased school engagement (Libbey, 2004) and adjustment (Battistich, Schaps, & Wilson, 2004; McNeely et al., 2002) and lower rates of health risk behaviors (Bond et al., 2007). Students who lack connection with school are less engaged (Blum, 2005), more likely to participate in socially maladaptive behaviors (such as using controlled substances or engaging in unprotected sex) (Bond et al., 2007; McNeely et al., 2002), and report diminished mental health states (Blum, 2005; Bond et al., 2007) and graduation rates (Blum, 2005). A more nuanced understanding of the relationship between school connectedness and student school adjustment will contribute to the descriptive typology of school connectedness during early adolescence and can inform researchers and practitioners interested in identifying students most in need of support. The present analyses build upon the aforementioned literature by investigating the relationships among early adolescent student levels of connectedness and academic and psychological indicators of school adjustment, specifically identifying critical levels of connectedness associated with these indicators. The sample is drawn from 3,343 5th and 6th grade students from one urban school district in the Northeast. School connectedness was operationalized in these data by student-report responses to the Classroom Supportiveness Scale (Developmental Studies Center, 2000; α= .85), Bonds with School (Cook et al., 1995; α = .80, and Affiliation with Teacher Cook et al.,1995; α = .88) scales. Indicators of school adjustment included academic grades and self-report of academic engagement and dissatisfaction with school. Two comprehensive sets of analyses were conducted: a hierarchical cluster analyses to examine variance within constructs and sample, and multilevel modeling to examine the potential source of these differential composites. Results from a hierarchical cluster analyses divided students into low (n = 821), average (n = 1116), and high (n = 1406) connectedness group. Students in the highly connected group differed from students in the low connection group on all independent measures, and differed significantly from those in the average connectedness group on measures of engagement. Multilevel models further suggest that the context of predominantly low achieving classrooms leads to lower school connectedness, and this difference cannot be attributed simply to the propensity of the individual students to feel connected. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Psychology
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Collaborative Problem Solving
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: As a participant in this seminar, you will be able to:
• Identify barriers to a positive outcome.
• Identify traits of effective problem solvers.
• Describe an eight-step problem-solving model.
• Utilize specific tools for gaining consensus.
• Experience increased self-confidence when resolving issues with others.
Location: CCB 115
Questions: contact Sheila Whitaker, X8045
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Human Resources
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Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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Recording with Techsmith Relay
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: Techsmith Relay is a software based lecture capture and personal recording solution. Relay can record PowerPoint presentations or any other content displayed on your computer screen, in addition to audio narration and web cam video. You can record anywhere, anytime regardless of internet connectivity or location. After recording, the video is automatically processed by the Relay server and uploaded to a cloud based storage provider. This workshop will walk through the process of installing Relay, recording and linking to the video from myCourses. Please bring your own laptop if you would like to participate in this Workshop.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development, audience: Faculty
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Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission.
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015.
After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music.
As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today."
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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