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Sunday, April 10, 2016
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Psi Chi Induction Ceremony
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: 0
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Dr. Mahzad Hojjat or Dr. Patrice Hartnett
Previously RSVP attendees only.
- Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, Psychology
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7:00 PM
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8:00 PM
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Nicole Mathews Senior Classical Voice Recital
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Senior Classical Voice Recital
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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12:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Tenth Annual Authors' Brunch
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Cost: $35.
- Contact: Carney Library Associates
- Description: The Claire T. Carney Library Associates presents its 10th annual authors' brunch on Sunday, April 10th at 12 noon in the Woodland Commons featuring four outstanding authors-Anita Diamant, Peggy Fellouris, Alex Kershaw and Joyce Maynard. A Q&A and book signing will follow the lecture. The cost of the brunch is $35. Students with proper ID can attend the talk after the brunch free of charge. Reservations must be made by March 31st by calling Rita Raymond at 508-995-3528. Checks made out to the Claire T. Carney Library Associates can be mailed to Rita Raymond, 1032 Sterling Street, New Bedford, MA 02745.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library
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1:00 PM
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2:00 PM
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Catholic Mass
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the Reflection Room on the second floor of the Campus Center (Room 233).
All are welcome.
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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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7:00 PM
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8:00 PM
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Catholic Mass
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
- Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the Blue and Gold Welcome Room on the ground floor of the Campus Center. All are Welcome.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual
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7:00 PM
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8:00 PM
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Catholic Mass
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
- Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the Blue and Gold Center on the first floor of the Campus Center, next to the Bookstore.
- Link: www.umassdcatholics.com
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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Monday, April 11, 2016
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9:00 AM
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11:00 AM
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Doctoral Dissertation Defense
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Nancy Murphy, RN, MSN, PhD(c)
Nursing PhD Candidate
Nursing Assessment and Interventions to Manage Acute Pain in the Preterm Neonate: Practice Analysis
Date: April 11th, 2016
Time: 9am-11am
Location: Library, Room 314
Dissertation Committee:
Dr. Gail Russell, EdD, NEA-BC
Dr. Rosemary Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. James Fain, PhD, RN, BC-ADM, FAAN
Kristen Sethares, PhD, RN
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, College of Nursing
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3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
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Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense
- Location: Foster Administration Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing
- Description: Jennifer Shallow, RN, DNP(c)
Nursing DNP Candidate
"Cardiac Rehabilitation Identifying the facilitators and barriers to women's attendance"
Date: April 11, 2016
Time: 3-4:30
Location: Foster Administration Building-Board of Trustees, Room: 333
DNP Capstone Committee:
Margaret Rudd-Arieta, DNP, PPCNP-BC (Capstone Advisor)
Elizabeth Chin, PhD, RN
Joyce Grusmark, MSPT
RSVP to Vicki Vital: vvital@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing
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12:00 PM
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2:00 PM
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Religious Literacy Unitarian Universalism: A Free-Thinking Faith
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Please join Reverend Ann Fox at College of Business room 115 at noon for part of the ongoing series on Religious Literacy sponsored by the Religious and Spiritual Life Office.
- Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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9:00 AM
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4:00 PM
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Fidelity Rep - On Campus
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: One-on-one: please contact Diana Rittenberg directly for an appointment 1-800-343-0860 Location: CCB room 306
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
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2:30 PM
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4:30 PM
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CAS Major/Minor Fair
- Location: Liberal Arts Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: free
- Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center
- Description: Exploring? Undecided? Looking for direction? Learn about majors & minors in the College of Arts and Sciences and Leduc Center for Civic Engagement's minor (and have some food).
Come visit various departments in the Liberal Arts Lounges.
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Undergraduate, Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Lectures and Seminars
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1:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Doctoral Dissertation Defense
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Patrcia Dwyer, PhD(c), RN
Nursing PhD Candidate
Multilevel Influences on New Graduate Nurse Burnout and Turnover Intent
Date: April 11, 2016
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: Library, Room 314
Dissertation Committee:
Susan Hunter Revell, PhD, RN (Chair)
Kristen Sethares, PhD,RN
Brian Ayotte, PhD
RSVP to Vicki Vital: vvital@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing, Lectures and Seminars
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Lightning Session: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: As a reflective practice, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning uses evidence-based methods to research effective teaching and student learning. Join Karen Gulbrandsen and Shari Evans (English), and Chan Du (Accounting & Finance) as they share their successful experiences conducting and publishing research related to teaching and learning in their disciplines.
Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website.
- 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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To Be Heard (A Must See Film)
- Location: MacLean Campus Center
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Foreign Literature & Languages Department
- Description: According to the New York Times this one of the best documentaries of the year. Its tag line is "if you don't learn to write your own life story someone else will write it for you".
Organized by Professor Marta del Pozo Ortea
About the the film:
Lives and language on the edge: Three teens from the Bronx tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change.
To Be Heard is the story of three teens from the South Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry. As writing and reciting become vehicles for their expressions of love, friendship, frustration, and hope, we watch these three youngsters emerge as accomplished self-aware artists, who use their creativity to alter their circumstances.
A verit film, intimately shot over four years, To Be Heard is the story of three friends and the love that develops between them as they evolve as artists. This tripod, as they call it, is bound by proximity, circumstance, and poetry. To Be Heard is also the story of how language links people. Pearl is the support and soul of the three; Karina is the passion and heart; and Anthony is the energy and physicality. In a community where friendships are kept tenuous for many reasons, these three build a bond based on language, respect, and the need to survive.
What will happen to these three kids? Will they find a way to articulate their dreams? Will that articulation manifest meaningful change? Does language contain the power to transform? Perhaps this film is simply about the lives of three kids from the ghetto and their struggle to survive. Perhaps it is also about the poet in all young people, the struggling artist in all of us, seeking to emerge. Embedded in the story of these three teens is the tale of their path as writers and a look at the source of their inspiration. That seed of inspiration comes in the form of a radical poetry class, called Power Writing, taught by a trio of outsider teachers. Early on we meet Joe, Amy and Roland. Given the heightened volume of the educational debate these days, their message and approach merits close attention. Not a part of any school faculty or formal curriculum, these three come bearing a simple gift in the form of a motto, If you don't learn to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you. There are very few secrets to their teaching methods, very few tricks. Their style of committed pedagogy is less about instruction and more about empowerment simply stated, they are there to listen closely, if the writer wants to be heard.
Film Trailer: http://www.tobeheard.org/watch.html
On Tuesday, April 12 at 9:30 am a Power Poetry session will take place with special guests from the film.
Please join us for the film on Monday and Power Poetry on Tuesday.
- Link: http://www.tobeheard.org/watch.html
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese, Films
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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Internship Info Session
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Development Center
- Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one?
All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
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6:00 PM
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Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Violence
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Featuring Megan O'Toole LMHC, ATR
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students
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9:00 AM
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3:00 PM
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HIV Testing - Free + Confidential
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: Improved HIV testing technology can detect new infections within two weeks of an exposure. This test requires a blood draw, which is performed by trained counselors from our partner, Seven Hills. You receive your results in about a week. Testing is first-come, first-served. No appointments.
Location: LiveWell:Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness. Oak Glen, 2nd floor.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/hivtesting/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Health Services, Livewell
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Zachary Grady Senior Trumpet Recital
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Senior Trumpet Recital
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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ARNIE Talk - Commerce, Recreation & Privacy: The challenge of unmanned aircraft for U.S. law and policy
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: free
- Contact: College of Arts and Sciences
- Description: Recreational and commercial drones are proliferating in our society faster than lawmakers can regulate them. Just about every week there are news stories about near misses with manned aircraft landing and taking off at major airports, recreational users flying their drones over neighbor's backyards and peering into windows.
There are countless concerns that have arisen in the past year stemming from the use of these powerful aerial observers. The drone industry is booming with excitement and anticipation for the day drone delivery makes a landing in the US. Meanwhile the law lags behind the technology and privacy concerns are on the minds of many lawmakers and the general public.
In her ARNIE Talk, Professor Farber of UMass Law will explore the pressing issues posed by the ubiquitous presence of drones in America today. This topic is particularly relevant no matter what your field of study or profession. The proliferation of this emerging technology spans across many different disciplines such as computer science, engineering, robotics, law, journalism, criminology, public policy - just to name a few. The existing and potential capabilities of unmanned aircraft systems will be explored to gain an understanding of why the threat to privacy is so great. She will discuss recent cases and controversies involving operators from a socio-legal perspective. Her presentation will be a mix of powerful still images, dynamic video and live presentation.
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ARNIE (Art. Research. Nexus. Innovation. Education) Talks, modeled after the TED Talks, are open to the entire University community. They present short, thought-provoking and engaging talks across the colleges at UMass Dartmouth.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Academic Affairs
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Over 25 Group
- Location: Counseling Center
, AUD. ANNEX Room 101
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Over 25 Group: A process group focused on growth, insight, and mutual support for graduate students and older undergrads. Meets Tues. from 12:30 to 1:45pm.
Led by Dr. Cate Perry and Dr. Mika MacInnis.
If interested, call 508 999 8650.
- Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
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5:00 PM
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Academic Success
- Location: Counseling Center
, AUD. ANNEX Room 101
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Four session, reoccurring group that teaches time management, study skills, test-taking strategies, management of test anxiety, and memory tricks. Just show up for one of the groups. Students can begin with any session and work their way through the sequence. Students may repeat the sequence or any portion of it, if they like.
Meets Tues. from 5pm to 6 pm at the Counseling Center. Led by Jamison Merrell
- Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
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4:00 PM
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Internship Info Session
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Development Center
- Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one?
All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
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12:00 PM
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Catholic Mass
- Location: Law School Room 116
, 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
- Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in Room 116 of the UMass Law school at noon. All are Welcome.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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Fidelity Rep - On Campus
- Location: Law School Room 124
, 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: One-on-one: please contact Diana Rittenberg directly for an appointment 1-800-343-0860
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
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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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CORSAIR Jobs Training for Staff
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training.
Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Training, audience: Everyone
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
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2:00 PM
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WRC Creative Writing Workshop
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Want to hook your audience with original ideas and voice? Use of metaphor and simile can enhance your academic and creative writing by helping your audience understand your unique point of view. Come learn about how to eliminate clichés and add interest and insight to your writing! How would you characterize anger, regret, and fear? Come find out!
- Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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ORAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDACY BY: Yang Liu
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: SIGNAL DETECTION AND SPATIAL SPECTRAL ESTIMATION USING COPRIME SENSOR ARRAYS WITH THE MIN PROCESSOR
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, SENG-213A
ABSTRACT:
Sparse array design in array processing allows the possibility of achieving the resolution of a densely populated uniform linear arrays (ULA) using new array geometries with much fewer sensors. The coprime sensor array (CSA) is a newly proposed non-uniform sparse array geometry interleaving two undersampled ULAs with coprime undersampling factors (sharing no common divisor greater than 1). Conventionally beamforming each CSA subarray produces two spatial spectra with grating lobes due to the spatial undersampling. CSA commonly uses a product processor, which multiplies one CSA subarray scanned response with the complex conjugate of the other to resolve the spatial aliasing ambiguities. However, this product processor produces a spatial power spectral density (PSD) estimate with a peak sidelobe higher than the full ULA peak sidelobe. Moreover, the resulting spatial PSD estimate is not necessarily positive semi-definite. This dissertation proposes a new CSA processor, named CSAmin, which chooses the minimum of the two CSA subarray scanned responses at each bearing to resolve the spatial aliasing ambiguities. The min processor reduces the peak sidelobe height and total sidelobe area over a product processor for the same CSA geometry and moreover, preserves the positive semi-definite characteristic of a true PSD. Several applications of the min processor are presented in this talk for improving CSA's capabilities in signal detection, PSD estimation and super resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck
Committee Members: Dr. David A. Brown and Dr. Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Kathleen E. Wage, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, George Mason University
*For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck at 508.999.9237, or via email at jbuck@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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4:00 PM
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5:15 PM
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Under 25 Group
- Location: Counseling Center
, AUD. ANNEX Room 101
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Under 25 Group: A process group focused on growth, insight, and mutual support for undergraduate students. Meets Weds. From 4-5:15 pm.
Led by Dr. Cate Perry and Dr. David Perry. If interested, call 508.999.8650.
- Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, Counseling Center
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12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
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Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Seminar Announcement
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology
Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences
Research Trends and the Funding Behind Them
Mary Hensel
Research Development Manager
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
SMAST I, Room 204
706 S. Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford, MA
Abstract:
A brief review of relevant agency strategic plans and how the best laid plans still shift to accommodate political expediency, weather events, health crises and other disruptions.
Note: Seminar will be simulcast to SMAST II, Room 325.
To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted title.
For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
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Faculty Writing Workshop
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: The Office of Faculty Development’s Writing Group for Faculty provides UMass Dartmouth faculty with a structured yet flexible forum for discussing and stimulating their ongoing writing projects. The group will meet in the OFD lounge. Join us and get help with all aspects of your manuscript preparation from proof reading, to publication strategy input, to networking and collaboration with other colleagues both at UMassD. and other institutions that share your research passions.
Lunch will be provided. Regular participation throughout the academic year is encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome.
This workshop series will be facilitated by Nikolay Anguelov, Assistant Professor, Public Policy. Please contact Nikolay Anguelov at nanguelov@umassd.edu with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
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Wagatwe Wanjuki Keynote - The Power of Storytelling: Speaking Our Truth to End Rape Culture
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: She is the founder of F Yeah Feminists, one of the first and most popular feminist blogs on Tumblr. She is a founding co-organizer of the Know Your IX ED ACT NOW campaign focusing on holding schools accountable to protect the civil right for an education free of sexual violence. Her story and commentary is featured in It Was Rape and The Hunting Ground.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students
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4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
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Italian Studies Panel Discussion
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: 0
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Hosted by the Department of Foreign Literature and Languages and the Department of History
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When: 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
Where: Liberal Arts 117
Contact: Italian professor Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu for more information.
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Scratching on the Walls: Roman Graffiti as a Source of History
presented by Prof. Crystal Lynn Lubinsky, Dept. of History
Graffiti, especially spontaneous graffiti or doodling, is an 'in the moment' sentiment or reaction to a person's world. It matters very little that most of the examples would contain sarcasm or reflect only popular opinion of people and events because it would capture a common sentiment lost to a social historian as he/she wades through commissioned mediums or official histories. We will look at what Roman graffiti, especially that 'penned' by legionaries, has to offer on a few political and religious issues of the times.
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Donna-angelo and donna-demone: A Comparison of Poetic Ladies
presented by Prof. Rose Facchini, Dept. of Foreign Literature and Languages
The representation of the poet's Lady evolved in 13th century Italian literature, ranging from gentile muse to assertive woman. We will analyze the two authoritative Ladies of the poets Dante Alighieri and Cecco Angiolieri, and compare the conspicuous differences and subtle similarities between the donna-angelo Beatrice and the donna-demone Becchina.
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Renaissance Humanism and Ambiguity in Raphael's Portraits of Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X
presented by Hannah Gadbois, Art History Major
The presentation will introduce the subtleties of Renaissance humanism and consider how they are reflected in Raphael's portraits of Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X. I will further extrapolate on what these ambiguities say about the role of the pope and their public presentation.
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The Siege of Padua and the Development of Artillery Resistant Fortifications
presented by Evan Weldon
The Siege of Padua in 1509 saw the first successful defense of a city against a well-equipped army using modern cannons. The defensive innovations utilized here by the Paduans led to the development of what would become the standard fortification style in Europe, the Trace Italienne.
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Confraternities and Charity in Early Modern Bologna
presented by Prof. Matthew Sneider, Dept. of History
This paper will draw on a variety of primary source documents to highlight the importance of confraternities in the provision of charity in 16th and 17th century Bologna.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/968795629874732/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Foreign Literature and Languages, History, Liberal Arts, Art History, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Lectures and Seminars
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4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
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33rd Annual Chemistry Department Honors & Awards Ceremony
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 206
- Cost: free
- Contact: Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Description: Chemistry student majors are awarded for their academic achievements.
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
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11:00 AM
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12:30 PM
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The Innocence Project-A story of wrongful conviction
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Dennis Maher spent 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Come listen to his story and from the New England Innocence project to get involved and find solutions to problems of wrongful conviction in the Criminal Justice System.
Sponsored by the CAS Deans Office and Department of Crime and Justice Studies.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Lectures and Seminars
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7:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Kate Nagy Senior Classical Voice Recital
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Senior Classical Voice Recital
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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TEA Time: DMPTool Presentation
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: TEA Time: DMPTool Presentation
Presenter: Zac Painter, Assistant Librarian,Information Services
Location: Office of Faculty Development, Claire T. Carney Library
Contact: Sponsored Projects Administration for more information spa@umassd.edu
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/spa/newsevents/
- Topical Areas: Sponsored Projects Administration
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2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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Excel Grade Books
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This workshop is geared toward educators who wish to simplify the process of evaluating student performance and calculating final grades. Participants learn how to organize student data on a worksheet, calculate averages, weighted averages, and use a lookup table to control the contribution of different scores toward a student's final grade. Excel can even convert number grades to letter grades automatically! Also covered are some of Excel's statistical functions. Previous Excel experience is required.
This workshop will take place in the Library, Room 225.
Seating is limited, so sign up today!
Contact Rich Legault for more information
RLegault@umassd.edu
508-999-8799
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students, topic: Faculty Development
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8:00 AM
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9:00 AM
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DFO seminar - 4/13/16 - Richardson
- Location: > Off-campus location, see description for details
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Discovery of a spawning ground reveals diverse migration strategies in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
David Richardson
NEFSC/NMFS/NOAA - Narragansett, RI
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
SMAST II, Room 157
200 Mill Road, Fairhaven, MA
Note: Seminar will be simulcast to SMAST I, Room 204
You can view the seminar live by logging on to:
https://echosystem.umassd.edu:8443/ess/portal/section/7547b9d3-f7a6-4772-a0ab-5fa027111350
Please note: the earliest you will be able to log in is 15 minutes before the regularly scheduled time
To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), to to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted title
For more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
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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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6:00 PM
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9:00 PM
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WORD! Spoken-word Performance & Open Mic
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Come enjoy and experience an evening of spoken-word performed by student in the WORD! course as well as open mic poets from the community.
Sponsored by the CAS Dean's Office, Black Studies and the English Department
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Academic Affairs, Claire T. Carney Library, Black Studies, English, Liberal Arts, Music, Concerts, Poetry, Sustainability Office, Fredrick Douglass Unity House
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12:15 PM
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1:00 PM
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Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation group will be meeting on Wednesdays 12:15-1:00 pm this spring in the Reflection Room of the Campus Center (Rm. 233), starting Jan. 27th, ending May 11th.
Contact Aminda O'Hare (aohare@umassd.edu, ext. 8761) with questions.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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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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5:00 PM
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6:00 PM
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Academic Success
- Location: Counseling Center
, AUD. ANNEX Room 101
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Four sessions, reoccurring group that teaches time management, study skills, test-taking strategies, management of test anxiety, and memory tricks. Just show up for one of the groups. Students can begin with any session and work their way through the sequence. Students may repeat the sequence or any portion of it, if they like.
Meets Weds. from 5pm to 6 pm in the Counseling Center. Led by Mark Winsor.
- Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
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6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
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Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Violence
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Featuring Maria Curran - Ph. D., LPCS
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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7:00 PM
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10:00 PM
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Game Night in the Library Living Room
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Need a study break? Come to the Library's Living Room for our Game Night which features a selection of popular board games. Great way to unplug and spend time with friends.
Questions? Please contact kmofford@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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Dystopian Fiction Book Club April meeting
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Dystopian Fiction Book Club will be meeting in April to discuss The Man in the High Castle , Philip K. Dick's novel that asks, what if the United States lost World War II?
By popular demand, we'll meet twice to accommodate as many interested readers as possible.
Our meeting dates for April are:
Thursday, April 14, 12pm-1pm
Friday, April 15, 2pm-3pm
Both meetings will be held in the Carney Library, Room 240.
From the publisher site:
"America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumored to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies...."
Copies of The Man in the High Castle will shortly be available at the library's circulation desk.
All are welcome to join us for our final discussions of the year. Enjoy your reading!
Questions?
Contact Hilary Kraus ( hkraus@umassd.edu / 508-999-8681 )
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Literature
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4:00 PM
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7:00 PM
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Black History 4 Seasons: Unity Fest presents UMOJA
- Location: Campus Center
- Contact: Unity House
- Description: Unity Fest presents UMOJA, a festival celebrating diverse cultures and ethnicities.
Join us for a celebration of culture, education, and social festivities to bring people together and strengthen the UMassD community.
Enjoy food and refreshments, cultural music and dancing, a photo booth, giveaways, and more.
The Marketplace will join the celebration with a menu of diverse cultural foods.
Sponsored by UMassD Dining Services, SAIL, Campus Services, Housing & Residence Life & the Frederick Douglass Unity House.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/blackhistory/
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
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10:00 AM
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10:50 AM
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WRC Creative Writing Workshop
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Want to hook your audience with original ideas and voice? Use of metaphor and simile can enhance your academic and creative writing by helping your audience understand your unique point of view. Come learn about how to eliminate clichés and add interest and insight to your writing! How would you characterize anger, regret, and fear? Come find out!
- Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
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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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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Obsolescence in Architecture: A Lecture by Dr. Daniel Abramson of Tufts University
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: NA
- Contact: Art History Department
- Description: Where does the idea come from that architecture can become obsolete, suddenly lose its value and utility, and so become expendable in a short period of time?
This presentation traces the origins of the idea of architectural obsolescence to early-twentieth-century American financial district demolitions, tax policies, and decaying cities. In mid-century, architects and others worldwide responded to obsolescence positively by embracing ephemerality and short-life buildings, but also, alternately, by revaluing the obsolete and reinstating permanence.
The idea of obsolescence thus gave way in the 1970s to sustainability, today's dominant paradigm for conceptualizing and managing change in the built environment, conserving rather than expending existing resources.
The event will take place at the Grand Reading Room.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/arthistoryumassdcvpa/photos/a.199037763617581.1073741829.197968553724502/506803662840988/?type=3&theater
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, Faculty Development, Undergraduate Research, Lectures and Seminars, College of Engineering, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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4:00 PM
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Creating Forms with Adobe Acrobat
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is used to create, edit and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF files can be set up as interactive forms for distribution and data collection. Participants learn to work with Acrobat’s toolbars, navigate, edit and annotate PDF documents, manage bookmarks, and set document security via passwords. Also covered are Acrobat’s form features, from form creation through distribution and compiling responses. No previous Acrobat experience is required.
This workshop will take place in the Library, Room 225.
Seating is limited, so sign up today!
Contact Rich Legault for more information
RLegault@umassd.edu
508-999-8799
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
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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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5:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Early-Stage Equity Financing
- Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
, 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA
- Cost: Students, Faculty, Members - free; Non-members - $20
- Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Description: Capital is the lifeblood of an early stage company. Without sufficient capital, a company founder may never be able to develop even the most promising and innovative product or service and bring it to market. A shortage of capital is a key reason for the failure of many early stage companies. While some company founders may be able to "bootstrap" a company and others may have access to grants, sooner or later, a company is likely to need capital from angel investors, professional investors or strategic partners.
Our panel will include executives from two Massachusetts-based early stage companies that have recently completed successful capital-raising transactions and an angel investor. Join us to get their perspectives on the capital-raising process, identifying potential investors, anticipating investor concerns, negotiating transaction terms and getting to funding.
- Link: http://sneef.org/event-2169284
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepeneurship
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Kekeli Concert at the AHA Night
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Concert will be held at the AHA night downtown New Bedford, MA
Kekeli group will march in the parade at 5:50PM
Concert will be at 6PM at the Zeiterion
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Friday, April 15, 2016
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Dystopian Fiction Book Club April meeting
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Dystopian Fiction Book Club will be meeting in April to discuss The Man in the High Castle , Philip K. Dick's novel that asks, what if the United States lost World War II?
By popular demand, we'll meet twice to accommodate as many interested readers as possible.
Our meeting dates for April are:
Thursday, April 14, 12pm-1pm
Friday, April 15, 2pm-3pm
Both meetings will be held in the Carney Library, Room 240.
From the publisher site:
"America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumored to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies...."
Copies of The Man in the High Castle will shortly be available at the library's circulation desk.
All are welcome to join us for our final discussions of the year. Enjoy your reading!
Questions?
Contact Hilary Kraus ( hkraus@umassd.edu / 508-999-8681 )
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Literature
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Doctoral Dissertation Defense
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Amy Bruno, PhD(c), ANP-BC
Nursing PhD Candidate
Fatigue in Parkinson's Disease
A Qualitative Descriptive Study Exploring the Individuals Perspective
Date: April 15, 2016
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: Library, Room 314
Dissertation Committee:
Susan Hunter Revell, PhD, RN(Chair)
Deborah Armstrong, PhD
Joseph H. Friedman, MD
RSVP to Vicki Vital: vvital@umassd..edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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CORSAIR Jobs Training for Staff
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training.
Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Training, audience: Everyone
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BMEBT Doctoral Dissertation Defense / BMEBT Seminar by Vijay Boominathan
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT PHD Program
- Description: TITLE: GENETIC SIMILARITY TO HUMANS MAKE THE ZEBRAFISH AN EXCELLENT RESEARCH MODEL TO ADDRESS CELL DIFFERENTIATION, TISSUE PATTERNING, BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF NOVEL BIOMATERIALS AS WELL AS DRUG RELEASE AND TISSUE RESPONSE.
Abstract: The vertebrate animal model, the Zebrafish- Danio rerio shares a high degree of sequence and functional homology with mammals, including humans. With the development of the Zebrafish Genome project and comparison to the Human reference genome, it was discovered that this vertebrate has homologous genes to 84% of the genes existing in human diseases. Our research here focused on how the zebrafish can assist in efforts to study cell differentiation as well as to use the whole organism as an in vivo model to answer questions about novel biomaterials. In regards to early cell differentiation studies we wanted to examine the role of tbx22 in zebrafish in the hopes it can lend insight into diseases such as X-linked cleft palate with ankyloglossia syndrome, which is known to occur in humans as the result of defects in TBX22 signaling. Our goals were to determine critical promoter elements that drive a well-defined discrete domain of expression of tbx22 in zebrafish. Identification of promoter elements that allow for restricted expression may assist our efforts to delete tbx22 only in the mouth region bypassing developmental defects associated with ubiquitous tbx22 disruption throughout the whole embryo. The second goal was to work towards understanding T-box target genes to understand what genes T-box controls that assist in mouth formation. MattInspector and transcription factor (TF) binding tools were used to find potential T-binding domains on target genes in Zebrafish. The studies performed in this work will provide a foundation for our long-term goals, which include a more thorough understanding of the molecular signaling events regulating craniofacial development.
The use of Zebrafish has not limited our hands to study only within the field of molecular biology. We have successfully used the animal model to study the effect of biocompatible and biodegradable scaffolds. We have tested the effect of Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) when treated in both in-vitro and in-vivo systems. Biodegradability and biocompatibility of the scaffold materials in these systems have been studied for the change in their structural properties and their nature to support the growth of cells which is a desired quality for scaffoled for tissue engineering. We also studied the effect of drug loaded Poly(caprolactone) scaffolds and their potential as a controlled drug release system. Studies were not confined to only in-vitro assays but also extended to use the Zebrafish in-vivo animal model system. The field of biomedical applications is seeing new developments every day, testing the effect of them on to animal models. The zebrafish with its striking homology genetically and physiologically has been seen as a novel tool to study and understand complex tissue interactions.
Advisor: Dr. Tracie Ferreira, Bioengineering
Committee: Dr. Erin Bromage, Biology; Dr. Sankha Bhowmick, Mech Engr; Dr. Robert Drew, Biology; and Dr. Chris Brigham, Bioengineering
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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International Film Series
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Human Capital (Italy, 2015) This film is a riveting and stylish modern day morality tale of class, greed and desire. (Directed by Paolo Virzi, in Italian with English subtitles.)
CVPA Rm. 153
all films are free and shown in Rm. 153 in CVPA. The programs are hosted by Prof. Charles White of the English Department
- Topical Areas: General Public
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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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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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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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MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Joseph D. St. Pierre
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH MOBILE NODES
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Wireless sensor networks have become viable solutions to many commercial and military applications. There is a need to develop standards and robust architectures in this domain which allow effective solutions that can be integrated into existing systems. This research focuses on developing an architecture which supports adaptive, self-healing, and self-aware intelligent wireless sensor networks capable of supporting mobile nodes. Sensor subsystems are crucial in the development of projects such as the Future Combat System, a multi-layered system consisting of soldiers and 18 subsystems connected by a network. The proposed architecture utilizes the SWE, a standard for sensor networks being developed by the OGC, and the I-TRM, a multi-layered technical reference model consisting of a behavior-centric technical reference model, information-centric technical reference model, and control technical reference model. The designed architecture is implemented on MPR2400 motes using the nesC programming language. The architecture supports heterogeneous sensor networks with mobile and immobile sensors nodes.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel
Committee Members: Dr. Paul J. Fortier and Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
*For further information, please contact Dr. Howard E. Michel at 508.910.6465, or via email at hmichel@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
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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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7:00 PM
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Joshua Hubbard Junior Trumpet Recital
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Junior Trumpet Recital
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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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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20 Cent Fiction & the UMassD Theatre Company Present: William Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Location: Amphitheater
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free (donations accepted for Relay for Life)
- Contact: Theatre Company
- Description: 20 Cent Fiction and the UMass Dartmouth Theatre Company are hosting a joint company event to present William Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
The event will take place (weather permitting) in the UMass Dartmouth Amphitheatre on April 16 and 17 at 4:00 PM.
WEATHER NOTE: If the weather is bad, the show will take place in the Woodland Commons on April 16 at 5:00 PM and April 17 at 12:00 PM.
The performance is free to view but donations will be accepted to benefit Relay for Life.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/599897573509454/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, English, Liberal Arts, Theater, 20 Cent Fiction, Theater Company
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