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Thursday, April 21, 2016
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12:00 PM
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Sigma Xi Research Poster Exhibit
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Sigma Xi, UMass Dartmouth Chapter
- Description: Wednesday April 20, 2016:
Library Living Room: Poster presentation 3 – 5pm
Grand Reading Room: Reception and Plenary Speaker Vanni Bucci 5:00 – 6:15 pm
Thursday April 21, 2016:
Library Living Room: Poster Presentation and Award Ceremony 10am - 12pm
- Topical Areas: Event, Research
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10:00 AM
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11:00 AM
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Collaboration: Where Group Work Meets Technology
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: How can we streamline and enrich group assignments using technology?
Including collaboration into course work provides opportunities for knowledge sharing and reflection as well as helps to promote a sense of community among our learners. Blogs, Wikis, and Blackboard Collaborate are three tools that can be used to create collaborative learning assignments and environments. Attending this seminar will provide participants with an overview of each tool, examples of effective collaborative assignments, and strategies for incorporating each tool and collaborative work successfully into their course work.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Staff, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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12:30 PM
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2:00 PM
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Masters of Arts Defense - College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Psychology
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Psychology Department
- Description: COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES - DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Master of Arts Thesis Defense by Luke Pezanko
TOPIC: Time Perception and Emotion: An Event-Related Potential Investigation
PRESENTOR: Luke Pezanko
ADVISOR: Dr. Aminda O'Hare
DATE & TIME: April 21, 2016 at 12:30 PM
LOCATION: LARTS 374
ABSTRACT
Prior research posits that negative stimuli can induce alterations in one’s perception of time. Interestingly, when the type of negative emotion was controlled for, only disgust images were found to correspond to over-reproductions of time, while fear images were found to correspond to under-reproductions of time. Externally- versus internally-focused attention may account for these different effects, however, a better understanding of the effects of different types of negative emotion on time perception is needed. The contingent negative variance (CNV), an event-related potential (ERP), has been found to fluctuate with over- and under-reproductions of time. In the current study, participants (n = 36) completed a time reproduction task that presented high and low arousing angry, disgust, and fear faces, as well as neutral faces at different durations. High-density, 64-channel EEG was recorded during the task to test CNV effects. A significant main effect for emotion was found such that fearful faces elicited larger CNV amplitudes compared to angry and disgust faces (p<.05). A significant main effect of presentation duration was found, such that shorter (400ms) intervals elicited larger CNV amplitudes than 600ms and 800ms intervals (p’s<.05). These data support previous research that has found different negative emotions to have different effects on time perception; however, the direction of the effect conflicts previous findings. Possible theoretical accounts for these findings will be discussed.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Psychology
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4:30 PM
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7:00 PM
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German Movie Night: Das Leben Der Aanderen
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Foreign Literature & Languages Department
- Description: Hosted by Professor Nane Khachatryan
Location: LARts-102
Movies are in German with English subtitles.
Admission is Free
DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
The Lives of Others.
In the early 1980s, Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress), were huge intellectual stars in (former) East Germany, although they secretly don't always toe the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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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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5/14
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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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3:00 PM
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BMEBT Doctoral Dissertation Defense / BMEBT Seminar by Siddhartha Maiti
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT PHD Program
- Description: TITLE: DEVELOPING FLUORESCENT SENSORS FOR THE BIOIMAGING OF CHELATABLE IRON (II) IONS
Abstract: Therapeutic agents, in order to reach their target, frequently need to cross epithelial and endothelial sheets. Two routes are available for such purpose: the transcellular and the paracellular pathways. The former is employed by lipophilic drugs and by molecules selectively transported by channels, pumps and carriers present in the plasma membrane. Hydrophilic molecules cannot cross biological membranes, therefore their transepithelial transport could be significantly enhanced if they moved through the paracellular pathway. Transit through this route is regulated by tight junctions (TJs). The discovery in recent years of the molecular mechanisms of the TJ has allowed the design of different methods to open the paracellular route in a reversible manner. One such method is the use of chemical entities called bioenhancers, to promote and augment the bioavailability of the drugs which are mixed with them without exhibiting any synergistic effects. The need of the hour is to carry out extensive research on these bioenhancers so that they could be utilized in the drug formulations.
In this study we present the preliminary understanding of two different candidates, which have the potential to be used as a bioenhancer for hydrophilic molecules by enhancing paracellular transportation. Our first candidate was a type of herbally prepared silver nanoparticle (rajath bhasma), used in the ancient system of Ayurveda for several centuries as a part of a concoction including a mixture of medicinal herbs to treat a wide array of illnesses. The other candidate that was considered was an 80kDa novel botulinum neurotoxin type E (BoNT/E) neurotoxin associated proteins (P-80). In this work, we characterize structure and function of these candidates by using chemical, biochemical and biophysical techniques. In vitro studies indicated morphological and biochemical changes in epithelial cells upon treatment with these candidates. Proteomic approach in combination with a literature-based pathway analysis showed altered expression of enzymes associated with the regulating integrity of tight junction. The bioehancing potential of these candidates were further validated by using an in vitro model to examine the paracellular transport of a co-incubated therapeutic molecule. The findings of this study could be used as foundational tool for designing a new generation of bioenhancers resulting in higher efficacy of therapeutic molecules.
Committee members: Dr. Shuowei Cai (Advisor) and Dr David Mande from Chemistry & Biochemistry; Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra, Mechanical Engineering; and Dr. Yashwant Pathak, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida Health.
All BMEBT students are encouraged to attend and all interested parties invited.
Refreshments will be served.
For further information, please contact Dr. Shuowei Cai at 508-999-8807 or by email scai@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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5:00 PM
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6:20 PM
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GRAD 101
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Have you thought about life after UMass Dartmouth? Graduate School? Workforce..etc? Well, Join the Class of 2017, Career and Development Center and Graduate Studies for GRAD 101! In the Blue and Gold Room at 5pm on April 21st. Our Panelist will help attendees better understand options after UMass Dartmouth and will set the path for how to start here. The Class of 2017 believes in the power of knowledge and continuously developing ourselves and our community. Be a part of the growth, Join us!
contact: mtejada@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Students, Law, Staff and Administrators
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4:00 PM
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5:00 PM
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Sexual Violence Survivor Art Show Opening
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Speak Out is held at and co-sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Unity House
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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New Employee Orientation
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Human Resources
- Description: New Employee Orientation
- Topical Areas: audience: Staff, audience: Faculty, topic: Human Resources
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7:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Jazz Guitar Ensemble and Latin Jazz Concert
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Concert
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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5:00 PM
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6:30 PM
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Temper Reading
- Location: Liberal Arts Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: In celebration of National Poetry Month, annual TEMPER reading. Poetry reading led by undergraduate and graduate students. LARTS Atrium.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Literature, Poetry
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12:00 PM
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22nd Annual Sigma Xi Research Exhibit
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Contact: Sigma Xi, UMass Dartmouth Chapter
- Description: Welcome to the 22nd Annual Sigma Xi Research Exhibit showcasing the research work of both graduate and undergraduate students at UMass Dartmouth. Students will be on hand to tell you about their work on Wednesday April 20th from 3-5 pm and again on Thursday April 21st from 10am -12noon. All are welcome.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Claire T. Carney Library, Graduate Studies, Honors Program, Research, Undergraduate Research, Alumni Events
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9:00 PM
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Mash Up
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: April 21st 9pm, UBar: Come down to the UBar and start thinking SENIOR YEAR Class of 2017! Your current e-board will be hosting a Mash Up for the Class of 2017 to start the conversation about next year and senior week! THERE WILL BE PRIZES! YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT. (This event is NOT closed off to the Class of 2017, all are welcome!)
contact: amoore5@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Student Organizations
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3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
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Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense
- Location: DION Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Marianne Sullivan, MSN, ANP-BC, DNP(c)
Nursing DNP Candidate
Effect of Flu Clinics on Influenza Vaccinations Rates, Influenza, Influenza-Like Illness in the University Population
Date: April 21st, 2016
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: Dion, Room 203
DNP Capstone Defense Committee:
Christine Gadbois, DNP, APHN-BC(Capstone Advisor)
Sheila Dorgan, MSN, FNP
Mary McCurry, PhD, ANP-BC
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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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 &amp;amp; Events
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