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Sunday, December 13, 2015
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Lysistrata Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium) , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: students: $5, faculty $7, general admission: $10 Contact: Theatre Company Description: 20 Cent Fiction presents Lysistrata. Originally written by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, Lysistrata is a hilarious comedy about how a group of women decide that the only way to stop the Peloppenesian War is to withhold sex from their husbands. This modernized version of the play tells the classic story, but with a new twist! Doors open 1 hour before show. Come 30 minutes before show to see the MacGyver Experience. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, 20 Cent Fiction
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass is celebrated at 7:00 pm on Sundays in the Blue and Gold Welcome Center (next door to the bookstore entrance). Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
« 11/18 - 12/18 »	Gift of Giving Food Drive Location: > See description for location Cost: n/a Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference! Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Together Again at the Boivin Center, Tenth Reunion Concert Location: CVPA Room 156 Cost: free (donations welcomed) Contact: Boivin Center for French Language & Culture Description: Two outstantding performers of French Canadian music, Jose Vachon and Lucie Therrien, are coming together again for an afternoon of song. These two nationally and internationally renowned singers performed together ten years ago and are sure to delight audiences once more. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students
Monday, December 14, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	RESEARCH COMPONENT OF PHD QUALIFIER EXAM BY: Bentolhoda Jafary Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: IMPACT OF CORRELATED COMPONENT FAILURES ON MAINTENANCE POLICIES FOR FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEMS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: The primary goal of maintenance is to minimize the risk and consequences of component and system failures. Maintenance actions can be divided into two subcategories: (i) Preventive Maintenance (PM) at predetermined time intervals prior to failure and (ii) Emergency Repair (ER) upon failure, where ER >> PM with respect to cost or downtime. Many maintenance models have been developed over the past several decades. However, most of them assume component failures are statistically independent. This assumption simplifies the calculations, but is especially dangerous for safety critical maintained systems because correlated failures can lower the mean time to failure and increase the probability of ER. We study the impact of correlated component failures in the context of five maintenance policies, including: (i) periodic group repair based on operation time, (ii) preventive maintenance: minimal repair with complete renewal model, (iii) periodic preventive maintenance: minimal repair with partial renewal, (iv) age replacement to minimize cost, and (v) age replacement to maximize availability. Examples illustrate that our approach identifies optimal maintenance strategies despite the presence of correlated failures. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Firas Khatib, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
« 11/18 - 12/18 »	Gift of Giving Food Drive Location: > See description for location Cost: n/a Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference! Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Tarik Taleb, Aalto University Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: TOWARDS 5G: CARRIER-GRADE PROGRAMMABLE VIRTUAL MOBILE NETWORKS Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A Abstract: The telecom industry keeps reinventing itself. Soon, the world will be experiencing the 5th generation mobile networks (5G), also referred to as beyond 2020 mobile communication systems. Major obstacles to overcome in 5G systems are principally the highly centralized architecture of mobile networks along with the static provisioning and configuration of network nodes built on dedicated hardware components. This has resulted in lack of elasticity and flexibility in deployment of mobile networks; rendering their run-time management costly, cumbersome and time-consuming. Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and Cloud Computing, along with the principles of the latter in terms of service elasticity, on-demand features, and pay-per-use, could be important enablers for various mobile network enhancements, to specifically virtualize and decentralize mobile networks using general-purpose COTS (commercial of the shelf) hardware. For this purpose, different requirements have to be met and numerous associated challenges have to be subsequently tackled. This talk will touch upon the recent trends the mobile telecommunications market is experiencing and discuss the challenges these trends are representing to mobile network operators. To cope with these trends, the talk will then showcase the feasibility of on-demand creation of cloud-based elastic mobile networks, along with their lifecycle management. The talk will introduce a set of technologies and key architectural elements to realize such vision, turning end-to-end mobile networking into software engineering. The Seminars is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Sharath Kumar Goud Madgula Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: IMPLEMENTING IMAGE STITCHING USING SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Image Stitching is an important technique in the field of image processing and computer graphics. Stitched images are used in applications such as interactive panoramic viewing of images, architectural walk-through, multi-node movies and other applications related to modelling the 3D environment. Image processing techniques treat the images as a two-dimensional signal and thus standard signal processing techniques can be applied for them. The output of image processing process may be either an image or a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image. As one of image processing techniques, image stitching specifically presents different stages to render two or more overlapping images into a seamless stitched image, from the detection of features to blending in a final image. In this project, a Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm is applied to perform the detection and matching control points step, due to its good properties. SIFT algorithm is a novel technique to calculate the key features of an image which are invariant in size as well as orientation. This project mainly uses SIFT algorithm for the implementation of the image stitching technique. The image stitching technique was tested on several image sets to demonstrate its effectiveness. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Firas Khatib, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469 or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	RESEARCH COMPONENT OF PHD QUALIFIER EXAM By: Saikath Bhattacharya Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: ANALYSIS OF FAULT TOLERANT CLASSIFIERS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) has emerged as a promising approach to predict the deterioration of critical components prior to failure so that they can be maintained on an as-needed basis. PHM provides human maintenance personnel with advanced warning of potential failures and the possible fault locations. This information prepares maintenance personnel to inspect a system upon return from a mission, thereby accelerating fault isolation and diagnosis, reducing system down time. Much of the existing research has focused on improving the accuracy of individual PHM methods. However, few studies have considered the potential benefit of utilizing multiple diverse classification techniques in a fault-tolerant architecture to increase the probability of fault detection. Moreover, these previous studies do not examine the negative impact of correlated failures, where failure in a majority of the individual PHM units can lead to system failure and possibly safety violations. This project studied the application of fault tolerance to machine learning with an eye toward enhancing PHM and fault classification. Specifically, we apply ensemble classifiers in a majority voting scheme to failure data from the reliability research literature. Results indicate that redundancy can mask single misclassifications but correlated misclassification in two or more algorithms would lead to overall misclassification. To mitigate the risk of correlated misclassification, we apply diversity measures, which quantify the difference between the outputs of these classification algorithms. These measures can identify better combinations of techniques from which to build an ensemble classifier, thus increasing the overall diversity and lowering the frequency of correlated failures. Six pair wise and non-pair wise diversity measures are studied in the context of an ensemble classifier for prognostics. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Iren Valova, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
« 11/18 - 12/18 »	Gift of Giving Food Drive Location: > See description for location Cost: n/a Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference! Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	457/SMART Plan Rep on Campus Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Get information on your SMART plan investment options with a confidential one-to-one appointment with a Retirement Plan Counselor. To arrange an appointment contact Vito DeSimone on: 401.439.3715. or email vito.desimone@empower-retirement.com Location: CCB 306 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Opera Workshop Concert Location: CVPA Auditorium , CVPA-153 Contact: Music Department Description: Opera Workshop Concert Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Peoplesoft Travel and Expense Module Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Kirk Hellmuth Description: In this workshop, using the Peoplesoft system, participants will learn the following: - Campus policy on travel and business expense - How to complete and process a travel authorization - How to complete a business expense report Location: CCB-115 Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Finance
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	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: Weekly meeting for faculty and staff to practice mindfulness meditation. Contact: Aminda O'Hare 508.999.8761 aohare@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Final exams end Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Examinations end today. Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/calendar/academic_calendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
« 11/18 - 12/18 »	Gift of Giving Food Drive Location: > See description for location Cost: n/a Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference! Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
Thursday, December 17, 2015
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	New Employee Orientation Location: Foster Administration Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Human Resources Description: On a monthly basis Human Resources partners with Campus Services and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to facilitate the University's New Employee Orientation session. This orientation is a mandatory session for newly hired benefited employees. It includes a review of key policies and procedures as well as campus resources that employees need to be aware of. Topics include: - Human Resource policies and procedures - Employee Perks - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/EEO roles and responsibilities - Campus Services offerings This session is an important element of the on-boarding process - your attendance is required. Location: Foster Room 333 - BOT Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
« 11/18 - 12/18 »	Gift of Giving Food Drive Location: > See description for location Cost: n/a Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference! Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
Friday, December 18, 2015
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
« 11/18 - 5:00 PM	Gift of Giving Food Drive Location: > See description for location Cost: n/a Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference! Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
Saturday, December 19, 2015
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Final grades due Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Final grades due Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/calendar/academic_calendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
« 11/25 - 2/14 »	Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition Location: University Art Gallery Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts

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