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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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Lawyers Without Rights: Library Living Room Exhibit
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Center for Jewish Culture
- Description: The Center for Jewish Culture has brought to campus a traveling exhibit entitled "Lawyers Without Rights."
It is on view in the Library Living Room from Tuesday, 5/3 through Sunday, 5/8 at 7pm.
More than 70 years after its horrors unfolded, the Holocaust still has stories to reveal and lessons to share. This exhibit begins to provide a portrait of the fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany — stories that speak to how the Nazis purged Jewish lawyers as one of the early steps to attack the rule of law in their country.
The exhibit was created by the American Bar Association.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Jewish Culture
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Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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David and Goliath: Giants Underdogs and conflict-Guest Speaker Memory Holloway
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 110
- Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
- Description: Guest speaker Memory Holloway will be speaking on David and Goliath. This Lecture will include visual examples of the story and film clips. Sponsored by the Religious & Spiritual Office April 28th at 2 pm in Liberal Arts Room 110
- Topical Areas: Students, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: April 2-May 14, 2016
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm
Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm
The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space.
The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm.
Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm.
Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
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Dr. Jeffrey Rediger - Psychology Brown Bag Series
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 205
- Contact: Psychology Department
- Description: Psychology Department Brown Bag Speaker
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
3:30-4:30pm
LIB 205
The Psychology Department is pleased to invite Dr. Jeffrey Rediger to give a research talk that bridges medicine, psychology and spirituality. This talk is supported by the Provost's Fund for Department Seminar Series. Refreshments will be provided.
Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and the Medical Director of McLean SE and Community Services at McLean Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. A fully licensed physician and a board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and publishes in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and spirituality. His research involves the investigation of remarkable recoveries from incurable or fatal illnesses. He has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz, and Anderson Cooper 360 shows, among others. To learn more about Dr. Rediger, visit his blog at www.medicineofhopeandpossibility.com or watch his New Bedford TEDx talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjVHIB0FhI.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Psychology, Religious Studies, College of Nursing
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Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Presentations
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering Department
SENIOR DESIGN PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday, May 3
Woodland Commons
Park in Lots #6 and #7, then follow the directional signs.
All are welcome, especially family and friends of our presenting seniors.
This is an exciting event, culminating a year's worth of work by our students. Students present their prototypes, as well as give a PowerPoint presentation and answer questions. A panel of judges, who are business professionals in the industry, will decide on first place, second place, and third place winners.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. Don Foster, Senior Design Instructor
dfoster@umassd.edu
508-999-8499
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Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant
scunha@umassd.edu
508-999-8492
Thank you!
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Conferences & Events
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Doctoral Dissertation Defense
- Location: Liberal Arts Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Coleen Toronto, MS,RN, PhD(c)
Nursing PhD Candidate
HEALTH LITERACY COMPETENCIES FOR REGISTERED NURSES: AN E-DELPHI STUDY
Date: May 3rd,2016
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: LARTS, Room: 113
Dissertation Committee:
Barbara Weatherford, PhD, RN, CNE (co-Chair)
Kristen Sethares, PhD, RN, CNE (co-Chair)
Nancy Morris, PhD, APRN
Please RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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Wind Ensemble Concert
- Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium
, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Wind Ensemble Concert
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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PhD Dissertation Defence Coleen E. Toronto, College of Nursing
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: HEALTH LITERACY COMPETENCIES FOR REGISTERED NURSES: AN E-DELPHI STUDY. Coleen E. Toronto LARTS 113
In the United States, only 12% of adults possess proficient health literacy skills.Individuals with low health literacy skills experience poorer health outcomes. Failure of registered nurses to consider health literacy in communication with patients, can significantly affect an individuals ability to understand and therefore, follow health advice. The Institute of Medicines (IOM) Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (2004) landmark report recommends that health professionals be trained to effectively communicate with patients with limited health literacy. There is an absence of nurse competencies that explicitly address the needs of patients with low health literacy. Therefore the purpose of this study was to identify a set of core health literacy competencies for registered nurses in any work setting. A three round e-Delphi design was used to elicit essential health literacy competencies for registered nurses with a national group of nurse health literacy experts (n=41). Based on partial replication of prior work by Coleman, Hudson, and Maine (2013), a final list of 50 nursing health literacy core competencies were identified in round two. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze data. A competency that reached 90% agreement in round two was retained. The remaining competencies were then prioritized in round three. The final list of prioritized competencies generated in this study, can provide a starting point for enhancement of health literacy educational content in practice and schools of nursing.
For questions please contact Barbara Weatherford co-chair or Kristen Sethares co-chair (bweatherford@umassd.edu; ksethares@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Graduate, College of Nursing
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Reading & book signing with Cape Verdean-American poet JARITA DAVIS
- Location: Liberal Arts Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
- Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
- Description: Tagus Press, a publisher dedicated to academic and literary works related to the Portuguese and Lusophone diaspora experience, is proud to host a reading and book signing by Cape Verdean-American author Jarita Davis of her latest
collection of poems "Return Flights". The collection traces the lines of cultural return from her current home in southeastern New England to the islands of Cabo Verde off the coast of West Africa, a cultural crossroads in
the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Working between memories and lived experience in a wide range of languages and cultural environments, this book marks a pivotal moment in Cape Verdean-American writing.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, the Cape Verdean Students Association, the Black Studies Program, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Frederick Douglass Unity House.
Location: Liberal Arts North Atrium, UMass Dartmouth
For more information, contact Professor Christopher Larkosh at clarkosh@umassd.edu
To purchase a copy of her book online, follow the links below:
http://www.upne.com/1933227672.html
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=return+flights
- Link: http://www.upne.com/1933227672.html
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Poetry, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese, Black Studies
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BMEBT Seminar by Dr. Meenakshi Dutt from Rutgers
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
- Description: TOPIC: Computational Design of Shape-Tunable Nanoparticles
ABSTRACT:
The shape of a nanoparticle has been demonstrated to control its
performance in many applications including medicine and sensing.
Identification of the factors determining a nanoparticle shape can yield
precise control on its functionality. We identify the role of pH, molecular
architecture, composition and confinement on the shape of two types of
nanoparticles: (1) a multicomponent vesicle and (2) a dendrimer. Via the
use of a mesoscopic simulation technique called Dissipative Particle
Dynamics, we examine shape-tunable multi-component vesicles. The shape of a
vesicle is determined by the molecular stiffness, and dissimilarity in the
hydrocarbon tail groups, along with the relative concentration of the
species, the functional group length and the confinement volume. We use
these parameters to design stable multi-component vesicles with target
shapes through the self-assembly of a binary mixture composed of
amphiphilic molecular species, such as end-functionalized lipids, and
phospholipids. We observe the hybrid vesicles to transform from a spherical
to an ellipsoidal shape with increasing relative concentrations of the
end-functionalized lipids, functional group length and dissimilarity in the
hydrocarbon tail groups along with decrease in the molecular stiffness. We
also draw correspondence with experimental studies on the shape
transformations of the hybrid vesicles through phase diagrams of the
reduced volume, the ratio of the minimum and maximum radii, and the
interfacial line tension, as a function of the concentration of the hairy
lipids and the hydrocarbon tail molecular chain stiffness. We examine the
effect of confinement on the growth dynamics and shape of the hybrid
aggregate, and demonstrate the formation of different morphologies, such as
oblate and prolate shaped vesicles and bicelles. We perform these
investigations by varying the degree of nanoscale confinement, for
different relative concentrations of the species and the length of the
functional groups. Via the Molecular Dynamics simulation technique along
with an implicit solvent coarse-grained model, we find a polyamidoamine
dendrimer to become increasingly spherical with generations, acidic and
basic pH. Our findings will guide the design of shape-specific or tunable
nanoparticles, and can be used for the prediction of novel hybrid soft
materials for applications in the medicine.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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