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Monday, March 5, 2018
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Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues
Feb 15 - March 9
Collaborators:
Center for Undisciplined Research
James Edwards, Michael Swartz
Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye
Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class
Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage
Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang
Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan
Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher
Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a
collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts.
The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery).
CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747
umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon
gallery@umassd.edu
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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4:00 PM
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Seymour and Miriam: Yiddish Theater and Radio in 20th century New York
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: free
- Contact: Center for Jewish Culture
- Description: In this performance, Caraid O'Brien tells the story of the rise and fall of Yiddish theater and radio in New York City through the lives of Seymour Rechtzeit and Miriam Kressyn. Together they cohosted one of the longest running radio shows in American history, appearing on WEVD from the 1940s to the 1990s. Through their radio programs, they documented the influence of the Yiddish theater on the mainstream American stage.
The performer, Caraid O'Brien, is an actor, writer and translator based in New York City. She first began studying Yiddish as an intern at the Yiddish Book Center in 1994. Her book on the lives and careers of Seymour Rechtzeit and Miriam Kressyn will be forthcoming from Harvard Judaica.
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Culture at UMass Dartmouth and Tifereth Israel Congregation. Please park in lot #13 or #14. The presentation will be in the Library Grand Reading Room at UMass Dartmouth.
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Judaic Studies, Center for Jewish Culture, University Marketing
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The Singing Planet: Why Listen to the Ocean? Distinguished Speaker Biology Seminar
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Contact: Biology Seminar Series
- Description: Join us for a unique, informative, interesting and FUN presentation!
Dr. Chris Clark will be visiting UMass Dartmouth for a student-organized event. He will be presenting a seminar at noon, with some pre-seminar mingling (including coffee and snacks) at 11:30! This event is open to the public!
The Singing Planet: Why Listen to the Ocean?
Almost all marine animals, whales, dolphins, seals, tiny shrimp, use sound for all the essential activities of life and depend on a naturally quiet ocean for survival. Human activities, especially noise from commercial shipping and explosions from offshore energy exploration inject massive amounts of noise into the ocean, and scientific observations indicate that the noises we generate to support our way of life are imposing a biological cost on ocean life. Dr. Clark's presentation will show the immense scales over which this singing planet's ocean life can be observed and why it's critical that we listen.
Dr. Christopher W. Clark, an engineer and biologist, was the founding Director and Imogene Johnson Senior Scientist for the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/) and research professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University. When asked what he does, his answer is simple: I listen to this singing planet! Dr. Clark helped develop and apply advanced acoustic technology to record and analyze the sounds of wildlife around the globe. His work advances the understanding of animal communication and the health of wildlife populations. He has listened to and studied whales for over forty years, with a focus on endangered North Atlantic right whales. He has a long history of successfully working at the interface between science, applied engineering, industry, and regulations all with the specific objective of using science to understand the potential impacts of human activities on marine mammals and to inspire and enable the scientific conservation of marine wildlife and habitats. Most recently Chris has devoted considerable effort to scientific advocacy through documentary films and outreach.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/945498155625897/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Biology
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Financial Aid Lab
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 203
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, Students
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Drop-in Study Abroad Advising
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: International Programs Office
- Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
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Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Mouthfeel
Feb 15 - March 9, 2018
Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia.
Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses.
The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia).
PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv
For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu
CVPA Campus Gallery
College of Visual and Performing Arts
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon
gallery@umassd.edu
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
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Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts
Feb 7 - March 15, 2018
RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm
Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel.
Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork.
Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life."
Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book.
Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night.
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence.
The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm.
The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava.
Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition.
University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
gallery@umassd.edu
Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director
Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
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UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project.
For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org
All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Health Services
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EAS-PHD Proposal Defense by Zachary J. Grant
- Location: Textiles Building 105
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: TITLE: ON IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT HIGH ORDER SSP METHODS WITH A VARIETY STAGES, STEPS, AND DERIVATIVES FOR LINER AND NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
Abstract: High order spatial discretizations with monotonicity properties are often desirable for the solution of hyperbolic PDEs. These methods can advantageously be coupled with high order strong stability preserving time discretizations. The search for high order strong stability time-stepping methods with large allowable strong stability coefficient has been an active area of research over the last two decades. This research has shown that explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods exist only up to fourth order, and implicit ones only up to sixth order, while multistep SSP methods have small allowable time step. To break these order barriers and SSP time-step bounds, we turn to general (multistep, multi-stage) linear methods of order two and above. Order conditions and monotonicity conditions for such methods were worked out in terms of the method coefficients, and we formulated a numerical optimization to find optimal methods of up to five steps, eight stages, and tenth order. Another approach to breaking the order barrier is to restrict ourselves to solving only linear autonomous problems. In this case the order conditions simplify and this order barrier is lifted: explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods of any linear order exist, but these methods reduce to second order when applied to nonlinear problems. We found explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods with large allowable time-step, that feature high linear order and simultaneously have the optimal fourth order nonlinear order. Finally, we turn to multiderivative time-stepping methods which have recently been implemented with hyperbolic PDEs. We describe sufficient conditions for a two-derivative multistage method to be SSP, and formulate an optimization problem that were used to find optimal SSP multistage two-derivative methods. These methods were tested on a variety of scalar hyperbolic partial differential equations, which demonstrate the need for the SSP condition and the sharpness of the SSP time-step.
Advisor: Dr. Sigal Gottlieb, Mathematics
Committee members: Prof. Gaurav Khanna, Physics; Prof. Yanlai Chen, Mathematics; and
Prof. Alfa Heryudono, Mathematics
For further information, please contact Dr. Sigal Gottlieb at 508-999-8205 or by email sgottlieb@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Mathematics, College of Engineering, Physics
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Terra Dotta Training - Drop In - Library 225
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Jean Schlesinger
- Description: Terra Dotta Travel Registry Training
Drop in for hands on guidance to register overnight travel for yourself or as a proxy for someone else.
Learn how to access the application and where to find job aids and FAQ's.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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#UMassDinSpace Panel Discussion
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Cost: none
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
Evening Panel discussion with featured UMassD professors and moderator, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld. Faculty will speak on topics related to space travel in preparation for our live satellite downlink conversation with alumnus NASA Astronaut Scott Tingle '87:
Vijay Chalivendra, Mechanical Engineering, Materials science
Mahzah Hojjat, Paychology, Human relationships
Lamya Karim, Bioengineering, Bone density
Dayalan Kasilingham, Electrical Engineering, Signal processing
Caitlin Stover, Nursing, Health
For more information:
Ray Laoulache, Associate Dean
rlaoulache@umassd.edu
508-910-6919
This event is open to the public.
- Link: https://www.umassd.edu/scott-tingle/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing
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Terra Dotta Training - Drop In - Library 225
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Jean Schlesinger
- Description: Terra Dotta Travel Registry Drop in Training
Drop in for hands on instruction on how to register overnight travel in Terra Dotta for yourself or as a proxy for someone else.
Information on where to find job the Terra Dotta application, job aids and FAQ's.
- Link: https://www.umassd.edu/peoplesoftfinance/terradotta-travelregistry/
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources
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Terra Dotta Training - Drop In - Library 225
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Jean Schlesinger
- Description: Terra Dotta Travel Registry Training. Drop in for hands on instruction on how to register overnight travel in Terra Dotta for yourself or as a proxy for someone else. Information on where to find the Terra Dotta application, job aids and FAQ's.
Library 225
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources
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