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Friday, April 29, 2016
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BMEBT Seminar by Dr. Michael L. Fisher, Southern Connecticut State Univ.
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
- Description: TOPIC: Optimizing Cyanobacteria for Biomass Harvest and Finding New Uses for Biofuel Producing Strains
Abstract:
One attractive method to produce renewable energy is the development of biofuels made by cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria can be engineered to produce biofuels, biofuel precursors or valuable bioproducts from CO2, sunlight and water. A major obstacle to economical production of such bioproducts is harvesting cyanobacteria from their liquid media. Centrifugation, for instance, is energy intensive and increases production cost. We developed a novel process for biomass harvest in which cyanobacteria were engineered to express genes encoding type V secreted adhesins, which cause the cyanobacteria to precipitate from their culture medium without centrifugation.
In a separate project, we are working to determine whether biofuel producing strains of cyanobacteria can be utilized as feedstock for heterotrophic organisms using R. eutropha as a model organism in a burgeoning co-culture system.
Brief bio:
Dr. Michael L. Fisher received his undergraduate BS in Biology from Siena College in Loudonville, NY. He earned his PhD in Microbiology at Tufts University in 2008. There, his research focused on the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis during pneumonic yersiniosis. For his first postdoctoral position, he studied genetic variation in M. tuberculosis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Wishing to establish a research program that could include undergraduates, Dr. Fisher took a second postdoc with Dr. Roy Curtiss III at ASU. There he worked on cyanobacterial genetics and strain optimization for biofuel production. Dr. Fisher is currently an assistant professor of biology at Southern Connecticut State University where his teaching focuses on Infectious diseases and he continues his research on cyanobacterial genetics.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Brazil, Rodrigo Xavier, PhD, to present a lecture on Lusophone Identity: A lecture on José Saramago’s Journals
- Location: Foster Administration Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: This event is free and open to the public and the lecture will be in English.
- Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
- Description: The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture along with Brown University welcome Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Rodrigo Xavier, PhD for a lecture on: Lusophone Identity: A lecture on Jose Saramago's Journals
Date: Friday, April 29, 2016
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Location: Foster Administration Building- room 333
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road
Parking: Please park in lot 7
Rodrigo Xavier is an Associate Professor of Lusophone Studies (Linguistics and Literature) at Technologic Federal University of Parana (Brazil), and is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (USA). His research is in the Department of German Studies under the guidance of Professor David E. Wellbery. His experience in the areas of Lusophone Literature and Comparative Literature investigates the relationship between literature, philosophy and other arts.
This lecture aims to present some questions that involve Jose Saramago's political stance and make it possible to grant him the denomination of Intellectual. Either in their field of action, the Literature, or in his public life as a Portuguese citizen, the production and the political posture of the writer deal with the national social concerns and confer to him an extremely important role in the scenario of the literature in the second half of the 20th Century.
Any questions, please contact Lisa Tavares at 508-999-8255 or ltavares4@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Educational Leadership, Foreign Literature and Languages, Portuguese, Teaching & Learning, Study Abroad, Literature, Student Organizations, Lectures and Seminars
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David and Goliath: Giants Underdogs and conflict-Guest Speaker Memory Holloway
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 110
- Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
- Description: Guest speaker Memory Holloway will be speaking on David and Goliath. This Lecture will include visual examples of the story and film clips. Sponsored by the Religious & Spiritual Office April 28th at 2 pm in Liberal Arts Room 110
- Topical Areas: Students, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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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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Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar
Friday, April 29th 2016
2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
SPEAKER:
Dr. Amir A. Aliabadi, Research Associate at MIT Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture
TOPIC:
Thermo-Fluids of Air in the Environment
ABSTRACT:
A few case studies are presented in thermo-fluids of air to characterize and solve modern-day problems specific to buildings and the environment. The first fundamental study investigates turbulent properties of the atmosphere such as boundary-layer height and turbulent flux parametrization, which greatly influence numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling. Various formulations are developed and validated using experimental data for use in Canadian weather forecast (GEM: Global Environmental Multi-scale) and air quality (MACH: Modelling Air quality and CHemistry) models. These models are currently being upgraded as a result of this research. The second study investigates airflow and heat transfer patterns within the urban environment of hot climate. Temperature sensitivity within urban canyons is studied in response to geometrical facet manipulations. Such studies guide optimal design of cities for moderating urban micro-climate. Current and future research plans in applications of thermo-fluids sciences in buildings and the environment are presented, both from fundamental and applied perspectives.
BIO:
Amir A. Aliabadi, is a mechanical engineer specialized in applications of thermo-fluids in buildings and the environment. He received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto (2006, 2008) and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (2013) in mechanical engineering. From 2013 to 2015, he held an NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Visiting Fellowship at Environment Canada, where he conducted research in air quality and atmospheric sciences. Since 2004, he has also worked in industry and provided consulting services to a wide range of clients including MDA Space Missions, Stantec, and atelier RZLBD. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and a visiting scholar in the Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coordinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496).
Light refreshments will be served.
All are welcome!
Students taking MNE-500 are REQUIRED to attend!
All other MNE students are encouraged to attend (especially MNE seniors and MS students).
EAS students are encouraged to attend.
Thank you,
Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
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College of Nursing - Doctoral Dissertation Defense
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Kathleen Plante, RN, PhD(c)
Nursing PhD Candidate
RN-BS Students Perceptions of Instructor Caring in Online Nursing Courses: A Mixed-Method Study
Date: April 29th, 2016
Time: 1:30pm-3:30pm
Location: Charlton College of Business, Room:115
PhD Dissertation Committee:
Maryellen Brisbois, PhD, APHN-BC (Chair)
Kathy Gramling, PhD
Marilyn Asselin, PhD, RN-BC
Kristen Sethares, PhD, CNE
Please 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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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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Young Frankenstein the Musical by Mel Brooks
- Location: Angus Bailey Auditorium
, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Cost: $5 students and military, $10 general admission
- Contact: Theatre Company
- Description: SHOWTIMES
Thursday, April 28 - 8pm
Friday, April 29 - 8pm
Saturday, April 30 - 2pm* & 8pm
Sunday, May 1 - 4pm
*Understudy show- understudies take the lead roles.
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein!
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen"), played by Nathaniel Tarantino, inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked side-kick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), played by Shayne Furtado, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), played by Cheyanne Patterson, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.
Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all the panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added. With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment!
For more information visit our Facebook Page or contact the UMD Theatre Company or the 20Cent Fiction Theatre Company.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716700798568301/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Concerts, Theater, Visual Arts, 20 Cent Fiction, Student Organizations, Theater Company
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Yujie Wang
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: RELIABILITY MODELING OF PROBABILISTIC COMPETING FAILURES
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Reliability modeling and analysis are essential for safe and reliable operation of complex systems and networks in modern and evolving technologies. This dissertation research concentrates on modeling effects of probabilistic competing failures in reliability analysis of critical systems with functional dependence behavior, where operations of some system components (referred to as dependent components) rely on functions of other components (referred to as trigger components) in a probabilistic manner. A failure of the trigger component may cause two-fold effects. On one hand, if the trigger component failure occurs first, the corresponding dependent components may be isolated with certain probabilities; such an isolation effect can prevent the system function from being compromised by further failures of those dependent components. On the other hand, if any of the dependent components experiences a propagated failure that occurs before the trigger component failure, the entire system can fail due to the propagation effect. In summary, competitions exist in the time domain between the failure propagation and probabilistic isolation effects, which can make significant contributions to the overall system reliability. Such competitions however have not been addressed by existing studies. In this dissertation work, combinatorial and analytical methods are proposed to evaluate reliability of systems subject to the probabilistic competing failure effects. The proposed methods are applicable to arbitrary types of time-to-failure distributions for system components. Some complicated scenarios are modeled, including system components subject to multiple types of local failures that have different statistical relationships (independent, dependent, mutually-exclusive) with propagated failures, systems with multiple correlated probabilistic functional dependence groups, and systems subject to phased-mission requirements. Practical case studies of wireless sensor networks are performed to illustrate the proposed methodologies.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Committee Members: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. David W. Coit, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University
*For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing or Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8883 or 508.999.8469, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu or hwang1@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense
- Location: DION Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Kathleen Elliott, ANP-C, DNP(c)
Nursing DNP Candidate
Multifaceted Educational Approach to Decrease Stigma Associated with Substance Use Disorders by Nurse Practitioner Students
Date: April 29th, 2016
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: Dion, Room 203
DNP Capstone Defense Committee:
Christine Gadbois, DNP, APHN-BC (Capstone Advisor)
Janet Sobczak, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC
Lee Dalphonse, CAGS, LMHC, NCC,CCMHC, LCDS, ICCDP-D
Amanda Wright, LMHC
Karen Blanchette, LICSW
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
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