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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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Portuguese Bate-Papo
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Contact: Portuguese Department
- Description: Bom dia!!
What are some Christmas traditions from the Portuguese world?
Join us for our last Portuguese Bate-Papo of the year this upcoming Wednesday (16th of November) from 3:15-3:45pm at the Library Living Room Lobby (behind the Cafe).
Come have a chat with us!
All levels welcome.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese
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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: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services
- 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 takes place in the Library, room 135.
Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799,
or email RLegault@umassd.edu.
Seating is limited, so please register today!
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, topic: Faculty Development
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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Student Animal Legal Defense Fund Inaugural Speaker
- Location: Law School Moot Court Room
, 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: UMass Law Career Services
- Description: The UMass Law Student Animal Legal Defense Fund will host International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) General Counsel Daina Bray. Attorney Bray will discuss her role as the general counsel of an international non-profit organization that works to rescue and protect animals around the world. She will also address the work of the American Bar Association in the area of animal law. The event is co-sponsored by the UMass Law Career Services office, the Student Bar Association, and the ABA Tort Trial Insurance Practice Section.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts, Political Science, Pre-Law, Public Policy, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Career Development Center, International Students and Scholar Center, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Student Organizations, Lectures and Seminars
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3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
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SMAST - DFO Seminar- November 16, 2016 - Michael Armstrong
- Location: Fairhaven Campus
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography
From Snails to Whales: The Challenge of Managing Marine Species with Diverse Life Histories
Michael Armstrong
Massachusetts Marine Fisheries
Wednesday, November 16, 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 going to:
https://echosystem.umassd.edu:8443/ess/portal/section/45f27129-23d3-49ed-85e2-e3fdb032c644
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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12:15 PM
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1:00 PM
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Faculty & Staff Mindfulness Meditation Group
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Weekly meeting of the Faculty & Staff Mindfulness Meditation Group. No prior experience is needed. Drop-ins are welcome at any time.
For more information, contact Aminda O'Hare: ext. 8761 or aohare@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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7:00 PM
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8:00 PM
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Peer to Peer: How to make study abroad happen (IEW 2016)
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: International Programs Office
- Description: If you are curious about what it is like to study abroad, come chat with students who have done it before!
- Topical Areas: Students
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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 online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment.
Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD.
The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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ARC/Writing & Reading Center's Public Speaking Workshop
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Are you making a presentation for one of your classes? Thinking about presenting at a conference or show? Then come to the Public Speaking Workshop and learn the techniques and skills to make your speech a memorable one!
- Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
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Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition & Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: An exhibition of Fine Arts faculty at the College of Visual and Performing Arts presents recent faculty work in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Mixed-Media at the UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery from November 8 through December 12, 2016.
Also on display will be the Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition. Collaborative Aggregates has awarded six $1,500 scholarships to students in the Department of Fine Arts enrolled in the graduate or undergraduate program: Henry Carpio, April Claggett, Devin Kish, Andrew Laverty, Allen TenBusschen, and Erin Wheary. Works by each scholarship winner will be included in the Collaborate Aggregates annual calendar and are also presented in this exhibition.
The mission of the Department of Fine Arts is to maintain an environment where artists are committed to the pursuit of teaching, research, and creative work. This faculty of professional artists provides a high-quality cross-disciplinary studio education to students at the foundation, undergraduate, and graduate levels through formal, aesthetic, technical, and intellectual training. Faculty members prepare students to become creative artists, pursue graduate study, or engage in Fine Arts-related professions through the attainment of their BFA and MFA degrees.
The closing reception will be held on Monday, December 12th, from 4 pm to 6 pm with artist talks at 5 pm.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Concerts
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10:00 AM
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SMAST - DFO PhD Thesis Defense - Judith Rosellon Druker
- Location: > Off-campus location, see description for details
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Describing echinoderm (Echinodermata) populations on Georges Bank and evaluating direct and indirect effects of marine protected areas on these populations
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Judith Rosellon Druker
Advisor
Kevin Stokesbury
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
9:00 am
SMAST I, Room 204
706 S Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford, MA
Abstract: Marine protected areas (MPAs) may have both direct and indirect effects on marine ecosystems. Direct effects are primarily related to changes in species abundance and body sizes, while indirect effects include modifications to trophic interactions, such as predation. This study examined both effects on echinoderms populations and on the echinoderm-groundfish (prey-predator) complex on Georges Bank. Using video survey techniques, we analyzed distribution and estimated density, biomass, and body size of four groups of echinoderms (brittle stars, sand dollars, sea stars, and sea urchins) from 2005 to 2012. We evaluated the influence of MPAs on this echinoderm assemblage controlling for several environmental factors (depth, temperature, sediment type, and sediment stability). We also used fishery independent trawl survey and stomach content data, to compare relative abundance, diet, and body sizes of three groundfish echinoderm-specialist species (American plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides, haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus, and ocean pout Macrozoarces americanus) before (1987-1994) and after (2005-2012) implementation of MPAs. We determined areas with significant spatio-temporal correlation between predator and prey species. Finally, we evaluated the influence of time period, depth, sediment type, management area, and proportion of echinoderm prey in diet, on consumption rates by these predator species. Brittle stars were confined to the northern edge of the bank, sand dollars were mainly located in the central and south-western areas, sea stars were highly aggregated on the southern edge, and sea urchin were randomly located through- out the entire region. While MPAs appeared to influence the distribution of sand dollars and sea stars, the distribution of brittle stars and sea urchins seemed to be defined by preferred habitat conditions, regardless of any fishing pressure. With the exception of brittle stars, echinoderm body sizes were always larger in the areas with lowest densities. This suggested that reduction of fishing inside certain MPAs positively affected sand dollar and sea star populations, via enhanced recruitment. While American plaice relative abundance, body size, and consumption rates remained similar between time periods, haddock and ocean pout exhibited increase in relative abundance, changes in distribution, decrease of body sizes, and an increase of consumption rates, after MPAs implementation. We also observed a general increase in the proportion of sand dollars and sea stars in the diet of predators post MPAs implementation. In summary, these results indicated that MPAs have the potential to affect this predator-prey complex via modification of consumption hotspots (e.g. location where feeding is enhanced). As echinoderms are main predator and prey for commercially targeted species, the detailed information (on the scale of kilometers) on abundance, spatial distribution, and size structure of echinoderm populations provided in this study is valuable for the implemen- tation of Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management. Furthermore, we have presented here a series of steps that can be used as a structured methodology to determine indirect effects of MPAs on trophic interactions. This has important implications in MPAs planning and monitoring, since these indirect effects are rarely part of initial evaluations.
for more information, please contact
Christine Fox (cfox@umassd.edu)
- Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology
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5:00 PM
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Lecture by Angolan Writer Ondjaki
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Portuguese Department
- Description: The Department of Portuguese and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture present: "The Third Margin of the Language is Affection," a lecture by Angolan writer Ondjaki - this lecture will be in Portuguese.
Date: November 16, Wednesday
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: Claire T. Carney Library, room 314
All are welcome! Free and open to the public
For more information: Prof. Glaucia Silva - gsilva@umassd.edu
Abstract: Using a personal and subjective lens, the Portuguese language may (also) be looked at from the point of view of affection. The third margin appears as a possible image to an approach to the language of speaking, writing, and dreaming. Focusing on the Portuguese language of Angola, Ondjaki proposes a short trip through personal, singular, interventional times of our common language.
Bio: Ondjaki was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1977, and holds a PhD in African Studies (Orientale, Napoli/Italy). As well as being a poet and prose writer, Ondjaki also writes screenplays. He is a member of the Unio dos Escritores Angolanos and has received the following awards: Sagrada Esperana (Angola, 2004); Conto A.P.E. (Portugal, 2007); FNLIJ (Brazil, 2010); JABUTI Juvenil (Brazil, 2010); José Saramago Award 2013 (Portugal); Littérature-Monde (France, 2016). His books have been translated to French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Serbian and Swedish [www.kazukuta.com/ondjaki]. Ondjaki is the current Halio and Amalia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at UMass Dartmouth, where he has been teaching a graduate seminar titled The New Frontiers of the Portuguese Language.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese, Fredrick Douglass Unity House
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Jam Session Series Jim Robitaille Trio
- Location: CVPA Room 104
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Guitar, Bass and Drums
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Media Representations of Female Victims of Gun Violence
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Jamia Wilson, Executive Director of Women, Action, and the Media, will discuss how media represents female victims of gun violence. The event is sponsored by the Campus Response to Violence Task Force.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students
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5:30 PM
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StressLess Day
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: Get a mini-massage. Play. Craft. Color your cares away. Join us for an afternoon break to relax and unwind.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/stressless/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Claire T. Carney Library, Health Services, Livewell
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ARC/Writing & Reading Center's APA Formatting and Citations Workshop
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Are you getting ready to format your papers for APA? Wondering if that sentence requires an in-text citation? Then come to the APA Formatting and Citations Writing Workshop and learn how to properly format your paper! Bring any of your papers you have to get started and build on during the session.
- Topical Areas: Students, Writing and Reading Center
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